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- Type of diabetes
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sweet/sour, spices, curries, Drums. Bright lights. DVLA as I lost my license through their neglect to correct wording of help needed in a hypo attack
they didn't say emergency help. just any help. and said my wife help me. and lost the license and waiting for them to tell me whats happening so im in real stress insulin levels up and down
It so happens I am a type 1 diabetic diagnosed at 15yrs of age.
I used to like running, swimming, rugby. So I was quite fit really.
It was in my later years when things started changing for me, and 1 was that I kept dying in bed, Yes I couldn't believe it was happening.
My wife would be telling me in the mornings that it was weird as she really thought I stopped breathing, and was panicking a little what to do.
She says she would shake me a little for some response, but nothing, then suddenly I would take a sharp breath and start breathing again.
This was happening quite frequent, and I just laughed it off, saying I do have a habit of holding my breath.
Any how when my diabetic check came up and I hadn't been for 2yrs with moving house, the nurse went through her routine of a new diabetic check up.
After which the doctor came to see me. He stated that blood pressure very low and heart rate slow.
I was put on a meter for checking the heart, and while asleep my heart would slow down too much, and stop for 10-20 seconds.
They thought the meter was faulty and so brought me into hospital. (Only by the Grace of God it jumpstarted again),
I was to be fitted with a pacemaker to keep my heart at a steady pace, but my answer was I didn't want it, I had asked God to take me in my sleep.
The nurses response was "Your not dying on my ward", "Your having a pacemaker"
Never had heart stop since. Been 10yrs nearly and soon to have the battery changed in my bionic heart. I'm 66 now.
I used to like running, swimming, rugby. So I was quite fit really.
It was in my later years when things started changing for me, and 1 was that I kept dying in bed, Yes I couldn't believe it was happening.
My wife would be telling me in the mornings that it was weird as she really thought I stopped breathing, and was panicking a little what to do.
She says she would shake me a little for some response, but nothing, then suddenly I would take a sharp breath and start breathing again.
This was happening quite frequent, and I just laughed it off, saying I do have a habit of holding my breath.
Any how when my diabetic check came up and I hadn't been for 2yrs with moving house, the nurse went through her routine of a new diabetic check up.
After which the doctor came to see me. He stated that blood pressure very low and heart rate slow.
I was put on a meter for checking the heart, and while asleep my heart would slow down too much, and stop for 10-20 seconds.
They thought the meter was faulty and so brought me into hospital. (Only by the Grace of God it jumpstarted again),
I was to be fitted with a pacemaker to keep my heart at a steady pace, but my answer was I didn't want it, I had asked God to take me in my sleep.
The nurses response was "Your not dying on my ward", "Your having a pacemaker"
Never had heart stop since. Been 10yrs nearly and soon to have the battery changed in my bionic heart. I'm 66 now.