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<blockquote data-quote="kegstore" data-source="post: 65076" data-attributes="member: 16530"><p>I have to say my diagnosis was fairly good. My father was in General Practice at the time so I'd only had 2 weeks or so of archetypal drinking of water, endless visits to the loo (mainly at night, oddly) etc, when I mentioned the symptoms to him. Dad knew what it was immediately, but got me in to see one of his partners the same day, arranged the visit to hospital and told me not to eat any carbohydrates at all (yes that's right, a doctor in 1982 telling a diabetic not to eat carbs...proof that some HCPs DO know what they're talking about!). So my bg level on admission to hospital the following day was "only" 11.5 mmol/l with no ketones.</p><p></p><p>Not too sure where things went wrong after that, always had quite good blood numbers, but my first complications started only 11 years later...</p><p></p><p>First "known" diabetic in the family, no history of it going back over 100 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kegstore, post: 65076, member: 16530"] I have to say my diagnosis was fairly good. My father was in General Practice at the time so I'd only had 2 weeks or so of archetypal drinking of water, endless visits to the loo (mainly at night, oddly) etc, when I mentioned the symptoms to him. Dad knew what it was immediately, but got me in to see one of his partners the same day, arranged the visit to hospital and told me not to eat any carbohydrates at all (yes that's right, a doctor in 1982 telling a diabetic not to eat carbs...proof that some HCPs DO know what they're talking about!). So my bg level on admission to hospital the following day was "only" 11.5 mmol/l with no ketones. Not too sure where things went wrong after that, always had quite good blood numbers, but my first complications started only 11 years later... First "known" diabetic in the family, no history of it going back over 100 years. [/QUOTE]
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