Hello I'm 19, I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes last year.
It's kind of a funny story really, I was really ill for a couple of weeks, really tired and weeing all the time, constantly thirsty! I just thought it was a big or something so I didn't take any notice of it, then I started to lose weight quite rapidly!
I mentioned it to my boyfriends dad (who is type 1 diabetic) and he said as a joke to a blood test on his machine for a laugh... Well I hate needles and any kind of pain so it took a long time for me to finally do it, so the reading came up as 30.5 and he thought it wasn't right, like I had sugar on my fingers or something. So he tried to make me do it again, but by then I was panicking and didn't really want to be pricked again haha so I was refusing to do it again. Well my boyfriends mum (who is a diabetic nurse) comes home and sees all this going on and sends everyone out so she can calm me down and do the blood test again... Obviously it comes up as 30.5 again so we are pretty certain by then that I have diabetes!
The next day I go to my local doctors to tell them I have diabetes and that I need to see a doctor straight away, but the snobby little receptionist was just saying to me about how no one can see me because it's not urgent (which was obviously a crock of ****) so I insist to her I need to see a doctor but she's not having any of it, so all she does is take my name and number and said she will speak to a doctor when one is free and see what they think. Well about 2 minutes after getting home I get a call from the doctors saying I have to come in straight away! Which I already knew !!!!!! So then I was sent to the hospital and what not and spent a joyful day there being poked and prodded..
But the funniest thing in all of this is that I live with a person with diabetes and a diabetic nurse and neither of them noticed that I had diabetes haha they just thought I was being lazy by staying in bed all the time!
Luckily I have now changed doctors so no longer have to put up with the incompetent receptionists that think they know everything!
And I am very well looked after by my boyfriends mum and dad
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