Do you remember the day you were diagnosed with Diabetes?

[Circuspony]

Well it was only 18 months ago so still very fresh in my.mind. I'd been to the opticians with blurry eyes and she'd said it was likely a worsening of my short sightedness because the only other thing that would cause blurry vision is diabetes and I was too skinny for that....

Roll forward a few weeks and a friend told me I should go to GP because I'd lost so much weight. She said later she was worried about cancer.

GP dips a couple of test strips into a urine sample and nearly fell off his chair. Rushed out to get glucose monitor and it just said HI with a blood sample. I think ketones were around 5.

He should have sent me to A&E but I was sitting there looking and feeling fine so instead he ordered blood tests. 48 hours later hba1c rolled in at 148. Practice diabetes nurse insisted I was type 2 so started me on glyclazide (sp). Two whole weeks passed of ever increasing glyc doses and BG levels sticking at HI. In the end I worked out via Dr Google that I likely had type 1 so told nurse I was getting really bad headaches so they sent me to A&E. Bloods taken, consultants rushing around, drips in and lots of people telling me I was lucky to be alive. I think being an adult means your body manages the onslaught better than kids. The on duty consultant at A&E told me he'd had kids in comas with lower levels than me. They were furious with my GP surgery.

 

[Erin]

Just curious to find out if you remember it and how you reacted to it?

For me I was absolutely petrified. Believing that I was going to have to inject every day! More than once in all probability! I had no idea about the difference In medications (oral/injection)

Near the obvious stage, I became bedridden and practically blind, walking down the hall everything was foggy, very thirsty; my very kind pharmacist used the meter with his assistant and my number was 30. He advised me to go to my dr. ASAP. The rest is history.

 

[Robinredbreast]

30 years ago in North Tees Hospital, visiting family, as my 2 children were with their dad and his girlfriend at the seaside, (he left months earlier) A doctor was called, he smelt 'pear drops' on my breath ( I was just about standing) went to hospital, they told me I had type 1 diabetes, I said 'oh s**t and that was that. Stayed a week in hospital and an extra week at families home, as I had to travel back on 2 coaches, by myself.
I missed my children so much and they were so worried, but I got on with it, as a single parent I just had to. Went to back to work and the rest is history.

 

[britishpub]

16th April 2015

I already thought that I had T2D so it was not a surprise or shock, and I had already found this website and forum, so I already knew what I was going to do.

So I did it.

The rest is history.

 

[Chook]

I told them!

I was doing some course work and struggling with some rapid changes to my eyesight. I had a lot of other symptoms but hadn't linked them as being connected to watch other. I mentioned it to my neighbour who is T2 and a hypochondriac - she flapped and insisted that she tested my BG which was just under18 (late morning with no breakfast). She went in to her major hypochondriac panic thing saying I should go to hospital, blah, blah, blah (I am used to her hypochondriac ways) but thought I would make an appointment with my GP just in case.

So, I phoned the receptionist and booked the next available appointment for about a week's time and mentioned in passing that I had had this finger print test and that it was 17.9. About 30 seconds after finishing the call I had a call back from the DN who insisted I see her that afternoon. By the time I got there my BG was in the very high 20s (probably due to the 'healthy' pint glass of h/m banana, cherry and pineapple smoothie I'd had for lunch and the stress of the morning).

The DN spent a while trying to persuade me to go to hospital (no chance - I felt a bit rough but not really ill - and by the time I left the surgery I had a meter, strips, insulin and a prescription for Metformin. She was a lovely DN who sadly gave me the eatwell plate info but she did stop by my home twice a day for the first few days to monitor my BGs were reducing.

And the rest is history.

 

[Flora123]

I was horrified to get a call from my doc. He was pretty blunt. It came as a shock as I had no symptoms, slim and it was picked up in a random blood test. A whopping Hba1c too. Three months later and a lot of determination I was down at 36 and have been since. Fingers crossed it continues. An ongoing challenge but I will NOT let the big D get me!

 

[Rokaab]

Just curious to find out if you remember it and how you reacted to it?

Don't remember it at all but then it was 40 ish years ago and I was only 2 at the time so I have absolutely no memory of life without diabetes at all.