How did you come to be diagnosed?

This may or may not be a repeat of an older post, if so please accept apologies.

In another post from today - when I talked about how frustrating I find the lack of understanding of diabetes in general is, especially in my case T2 - when diagnosis was mentioned, which led me to wonder how other people came to be diagnosed. In my case, it was almost on a whim - I was doing a demanding job as a College Lecturer but found I just seemed to get so tired and have little energy - I really thought this was due to age. However, two of my three adult children have Hashimo's Thyroid disease and my mother also had some thyroid issues in her latter years and I thought it might be an idea to get my thyroid checked - I should mention that until this point I only visited my GP about once a year for annual review on blood pressure. Happily my thyroid was ok, but I was absolutely shocked to be told I had diabetes. As I say, I could easily have carried on thinking my tiredness was due to my age (not that I am that old ) and may never have found I was diabetic until much later. It does make me wonder how long I had been diabetic for though!

I used to get thrush a lot, never really questioned it, just thought I was susceptible.

Thanks to all for sharing your stories.

Unbeliever, that old chestnut of T2 means obesity drives me nuts, I too, have always been slim at 5'5" weighing 8.6 lbs, like you mine would seem to be genetic, though neither parents were diagnosed diabetic, a maternal aunt had T2, also my dad's half brother and his daughter, and paternnal great aunt was a T1, my brother who is 5 years my senior diagnosed shortly after me, I think my diagnosis may have led to him getting checked.

Interesting to hear some of your amazing stories of diagnosis, I kind of felt that as it is a hard disease to diagnose that you would have some interesting stories, looking back, I recall now that I used to get home from work feeling so dry that I would go straight to fridge to down a glass of cold water. Always had sweet tooth so did not really notice increase in sugar craving, it was really the tiredness and a stroke of luck really. Like many of you, I have no idea how long I had been a T2, guess we will never know that, but I think we are lucky in the sense that we are aware, what we do after that is up to us. I do try to be good, not always successfully I am afraid, have a few slips along the way :roll:

A strange thing is, my cousin - a formet District Nurse, whose father was a T1 all his life, and mother a T2 in latter years, also her brother a T2, is not diabetic, can't help wondering at the irony of this, not that I wish her to be diabetic, but thought she was more likely than I.

Thanks to all for sharing your stories.

Unbeliever, that old chestnut of T2 means obesity drives me nuts, I too, have always been slim at 5'5" weighing 8.6 lbs, like you mine would seem to be genetic, though neither parents were diagnosed diabetic, a maternal aunt had T2, also my dad's half brother and his daughter, and paternnal great aunt was a T1, my brother who is 5 years my senior diagnosed shortly after me, I think my diagnosis may have led to him getting checked.

Interesting to hear some of your amazing stories of diagnosis, I kind of felt that as it is a hard disease to diagnose that you would have some interesting stories, looking back, I recall now that I used to get home from work feeling so dry that I would go straight to fridge to down a glass of cold water. Always had sweet tooth so did not really notice increase in sugar craving, it was really the tiredness and a stroke of luck really. Like many of you, I have no idea how long I had been a T2, guess we will never know that, but I think we are lucky in the sense that we are aware, what we do after that is up to us. I do try to be good, not always successfully I am afraid, have a few slips along the way :roll:

A strange thing is, my cousin - a formet District Nurse, whose father was a T1 all his life, and mother a T2 in latter years, also her brother a T2, is not diabetic, can't help wondering at the irony of this, not that I wish her to be diabetic, but thought she was more likely than I.

Many interesting insights into how you were diagnosed, there are many similar trends going on here in that, like myself, they were completely unsuspecting - which leads me to think we need to raise the profile on T2, but as another member posted - too many diagnoses and the NHS would collapse :roll: