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<blockquote data-quote="Miasma" data-source="post: 73012" data-attributes="member: 14200"><p>Around July last year, I started getting extremely thirsty, but a lot of my friends had throat infections and had similar symptoms so I assumed I'd caught it too, so I got antibiotics, then developed thrush, my sister told me that she gets thrush when she's on antibiotics, so I ignored it, then around December, I started to slowly lose appetite, and whenever I craved a drink, it was sugarry. After so many months of constant thirst, I'd just gotten used to the thirstiness and the constant trips to the toilet in the middle of the night.</p><p>Then on the 9th Jan 09 I went into my GP because I was deathly pale, I was just sleeping all day, which he thought was normal for a 18 yr old girl :| but I can assure you, I hate lie ins haha. And the thrush had been going on for months. He told me I just had a stomach bug, without examining me, and sent me home with paracetmol and pills to stop me vomiting.</p><p>The next day, my boyfriend and his mum came to see me and their faces dropped when they saw me , "lauren, you look like you're dying" needless to say, I was upset haha. I spent the entire weekend drinking orange juice, when on the Sunday morning I woke at 6am and didn't stop vomiting til 10am. Then for the rest of the day, I was sleeping on and off, and vomiting, I couldnt keep water down. Then around 11pm I turned to my mum and said 'i think i'm actually going to die tonight' and she wasted no time in getting in the emergency doc, who tested my blood, which was 29, and i had turned the keytone strip dark purple, which is the highest level of ketones it can measure. I was taken to hospital in an ambulance straight away and spent 12 days in on drips.</p><p>Theres my story haah sorry its so long </p><p>xo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Miasma, post: 73012, member: 14200"] Around July last year, I started getting extremely thirsty, but a lot of my friends had throat infections and had similar symptoms so I assumed I'd caught it too, so I got antibiotics, then developed thrush, my sister told me that she gets thrush when she's on antibiotics, so I ignored it, then around December, I started to slowly lose appetite, and whenever I craved a drink, it was sugarry. After so many months of constant thirst, I'd just gotten used to the thirstiness and the constant trips to the toilet in the middle of the night. Then on the 9th Jan 09 I went into my GP because I was deathly pale, I was just sleeping all day, which he thought was normal for a 18 yr old girl :| but I can assure you, I hate lie ins haha. And the thrush had been going on for months. He told me I just had a stomach bug, without examining me, and sent me home with paracetmol and pills to stop me vomiting. The next day, my boyfriend and his mum came to see me and their faces dropped when they saw me , "lauren, you look like you're dying" needless to say, I was upset haha. I spent the entire weekend drinking orange juice, when on the Sunday morning I woke at 6am and didn't stop vomiting til 10am. Then for the rest of the day, I was sleeping on and off, and vomiting, I couldnt keep water down. Then around 11pm I turned to my mum and said 'i think i'm actually going to die tonight' and she wasted no time in getting in the emergency doc, who tested my blood, which was 29, and i had turned the keytone strip dark purple, which is the highest level of ketones it can measure. I was taken to hospital in an ambulance straight away and spent 12 days in on drips. Theres my story haah sorry its so long xo [/QUOTE]
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