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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Latedecember1963" data-source="post: 2023345" data-attributes="member: 107087">Hi Colin!  I was diagnosed in May 1979 with type 1 at the age of 15.  When I was 35 I started getting pains in my left side like a kidney infection and was not able to walk to work any more as the pain got worse.  I went to see my GP, who specialised in Diabetic Care (lol) he told me I was only 35, a woman and had never smoked so it could not be my heart.  I saw him 3 times over a period of 8 weeks. Eventually after 8 weeks I had gone to my Mum's for tea and this pain became so severe that I couldn't eat.  I asked Mum to look after my son and went home to rest.  I was up all night as I was scared to sit down in case I died.  The following morning I rang the surgery at 8am and a GP came out to see me, he thought I had a broken rib and sent me for an x-ray - there was nothing broken.  I rang the emergency Doctor that night and was told by a triage nurse that if I wanted to see a doctor I would have to travel 6 miles to see one.  I got a taxi with my Mum and Son and had to wait another 2 hours to be seen.  This Doctor sent me to A&E after he rang them with his suspicions, but not by ambulance - by taxi.  I was redirected to a ward and a Doctor came running towards me - he looked at my Mum and then at me and asked who had pains.  Obviously after over 30 hours of pain I was glad to get some morphine, but it was too late to have the injection to break the clot.  6 years later after 3 angio-graphs I was told I had 3 narrowed arteries and had a quadruple by-pass at the age of 41.  I had no chest or arm pain, it was in my back and I had previously had a kidney infection and thought it could be that again.Make sure the Doctor takes notice of your symptoms - good luck!  Hope you are OK.</blockquote>

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