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Maddiemo1

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What made you have a BG test in the first place? They say that there is so many people walking around and don't know they are diabetic. I felt so Terrible for a good few years I had a feeling it was my sugar levels. Did you feel bad? Or you didn't even notice felt well. I was reading there isn't any symptoms, but think there must be some don't you?
 
I didn't feel ill. I was offered a flu jab and when they said it was free I accepted immediately. They then said that I could come back in a month and have a free pneumoccocal jab so I went for that also. The nurse said that she was going to take a blood sample and I said help yourself. I didn't know why she did that. A few weeks later I was in the diabetic clinic and have attended there for nearly four years now.

Sometimes I think I would have been better off with flu.
 
I went into Lloyds Chemist to get some blood pressure pills and while I was waiting the young lady asked me to step around the other side of the screen. I could not refuse such an offer but when I got round there she stuck a lancet in my finger and told me I was diabetic! She then phoned the doc and made an appointment for the following day. It was about 11.00 am I was at 13 mmol.

I could still be walking around with undiagnosed T2.

Well done Lloyds, well done Lucy (if your reading this)

H
 
I knew a year before being diagnosed had symptoms and also at work whilst training to test people for diabetes we had to do it in on ourselves first and could see levels were too high really.
 
I had felt drained for years but put it down to work/help caring for my mother for several years before she died ( it was a very stressful 5 years).

I had the 'thirst' of all thirst and hadnt long had glasses for blurry eyes. Another one who went to Lloyds Chemist, had the test, 18.8 fasting :shock: . They rung my GP's and because we have walk in clinic Lloyds insited I was seen that morning. Bloods taken up GP's that morning as Id still not eaten. Was told it woulb be 2 days for these tests to come back but I had a phone call the following morning, they had taken just under 24 hrs .

GP thinks I have been ill for just over 5 years..... makes me think if all the stress didnt help
 

Stress (when bad enough for long enough) is a proven factor in getting physical illness of any kind. Sad, but true.

Probably the main factors for you were genetic and because you will most likely have eaten a fairly normal western diet all your life. You loved your mother and did your best for her, it's not your fault or hers.

There's no way our bodies are able to cope with a high carb low nutrient diet throughout our lives. Someone tell the food industry though.

IMO we need to manage stress even better if we have diabetes. I'm trying to learn this every day.
 
I went for a blood test and asked for everything on the list to be tested as I hadn't bothered to have a test for years. I'd had no symptoms of anything which is why I didn't go. I didn't believe I had diabetes so I cut out all carbs and alcohol (!) until the second test to make sure my second test was negative, but the result was the same so it started slowly to sink in. I was scared because I thought all diabetics had to inject themselves with syringes, and prick their fingers with a pin which was being done where I went to donate blood many years ago.
 
My GPs have been taking bets on me being diabetic for years, as I was the standard stereotype obese middle-aged woman! So I've had blood tests at least once a year for nearly 10 years previous to being diagnosed.

Also I've got an under-active thyroid and take Levothyroxine; they check that every six months, and our practice nurse is a great believer in taking samples for everything when she manages to find a vein.

I had no symptoms at all, but was finally diagnosed two years ago, just after my last house move, when I was stressed to death. Looking back over my test results, they should have shouted at me 6 months earlier, when I was very high borderline. :roll:

Viv 8)
 
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