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<blockquote data-quote="francesk" data-source="post: 1698423" data-attributes="member: 192328"><p>I was diagnosed T2 when I was 36. I'm now 58. I then spent the next five years ignoring it. I carried on eating the wrong things, drinking too much, being overweight despite a hard physical job. In 2000 my liver packed up due to the drinking. I've got some of the complications such as diabetic retinopathy, peripheral neuropathy etc, and had my first cataract out at 42 and then the other eye cataract removed three years ago. I had peritonitis about six years ago and nearly died, and the whole process of healing was made very much slower because I was a diabetic. I went onto Metformin, which I couldn't take because it made me so sick, and then went onto gliclazide for several years, although my sugar levels were still too high, but I was frantically resisting being put on to insulin, I hated the idea of injections. Eventually when we moved to where we live now, I joined the diabetic unit of our local hospital and met a sympathetic team of Dr.s and DNs, who persuaded me that this was the right way to go. I've had great back up from them, and the Renal unit, and the Eye unit ever since. I've been on insulin for about eleven years now, have stage 4 CKD and have just been investigated for IBS, but the course of steroids I'm on does seem to have sorted that out. I haven't worked for several years due to back problems, which obviously isn't diabetes related and have awful sciatica at present but in answer the the OP's question - diabetes HAS NOT ruined my life, although I have cursed it many a time, it has given me more to fight it with. My current goal is getting my bg's steady, losing more weight and keeping my kidneys well enough to carry on without dialysis. And this forum is the best thing that ever happened to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="francesk, post: 1698423, member: 192328"] I was diagnosed T2 when I was 36. I'm now 58. I then spent the next five years ignoring it. I carried on eating the wrong things, drinking too much, being overweight despite a hard physical job. In 2000 my liver packed up due to the drinking. I've got some of the complications such as diabetic retinopathy, peripheral neuropathy etc, and had my first cataract out at 42 and then the other eye cataract removed three years ago. I had peritonitis about six years ago and nearly died, and the whole process of healing was made very much slower because I was a diabetic. I went onto Metformin, which I couldn't take because it made me so sick, and then went onto gliclazide for several years, although my sugar levels were still too high, but I was frantically resisting being put on to insulin, I hated the idea of injections. Eventually when we moved to where we live now, I joined the diabetic unit of our local hospital and met a sympathetic team of Dr.s and DNs, who persuaded me that this was the right way to go. I've had great back up from them, and the Renal unit, and the Eye unit ever since. I've been on insulin for about eleven years now, have stage 4 CKD and have just been investigated for IBS, but the course of steroids I'm on does seem to have sorted that out. I haven't worked for several years due to back problems, which obviously isn't diabetes related and have awful sciatica at present but in answer the the OP's question - diabetes HAS NOT ruined my life, although I have cursed it many a time, it has given me more to fight it with. My current goal is getting my bg's steady, losing more weight and keeping my kidneys well enough to carry on without dialysis. And this forum is the best thing that ever happened to me. [/QUOTE]
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