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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cyb3rminx" data-source="post: 61581" data-attributes="member: 7811"><p>i started feelng very tierd, drinking lots peeing lots and i lost a stone in two weeks even though i was eating for england and then i began with blurred vision, i went to the gp and was told i had a virus a week later i went back to be told to go see an optician. i ignored the gp and went to my lloyds chemist who checked my bs. after re testing them because they had never seen a reading so high (33.3) they told me to go to a&e. a few blood tests and i was told i was dt1. so for two weeks i was walking round thinking i had a virus taking paracetamol lol funny bloody virus. i have been dt1 since may last year and still do not have good control as my nurse thinks i have finished honeymooning now so have had to have doses highered and lots of tests. I think doctors should be more aware of what people tell them i told my gp that i thought i may be diabetic but she dismissed me because i am not a gp at the end of the day i was right and if i had not been for the chemist offering the test who knows what may of happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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