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<blockquote data-quote="jrcornwall1" data-source="post: 831144" data-attributes="member: 138900"><p>My diagnosis was somewhat similar. I went to see my GP following three days of vomiting, blurred vision and intense abdominal pain. She had me on the table (that sounds rude, does't it?) poking around and asked if I had my appendix out and various other things. She said I looked poorly and dehydrated (seven years of medical training for her degree and a further two years placement in GP's surgeries to observe!) at which point I relayed to her what I had drunk the previous day: 9 cans of coke, two litres of water, a litre of weakend Vimto...I could see the light bulb moment above her head when she whipped out a glucose monitor and measured my glucose and the meter simply said HI. I was taken to hospital where I found myself in a kafkaesque world. Four hours and despite my constant pleadings for a drink of water I got none. The following two days I was unconscious and once I did regain consciousness I was wired and clipped almost everywhere on my body. They said it was my own fault for not recognising the symptoms! I had no frame of reference with no one in my family had been or was currently diabetic which, they said, was no excuse! These days I inject insulin six times daily plus taking a gram of metformin. My eyesight is weakening, my weight is up and down and my median glucose reading is around 28. What will happen after May7 if the Tories win a majority, despite their rhetoric, the dismantling of the NHS will continue until it no longer exists and we will be paying for life insurance and medical treatments as they do in America.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jrcornwall1, post: 831144, member: 138900"] My diagnosis was somewhat similar. I went to see my GP following three days of vomiting, blurred vision and intense abdominal pain. She had me on the table (that sounds rude, does't it?) poking around and asked if I had my appendix out and various other things. She said I looked poorly and dehydrated (seven years of medical training for her degree and a further two years placement in GP's surgeries to observe!) at which point I relayed to her what I had drunk the previous day: 9 cans of coke, two litres of water, a litre of weakend Vimto...I could see the light bulb moment above her head when she whipped out a glucose monitor and measured my glucose and the meter simply said HI. I was taken to hospital where I found myself in a kafkaesque world. Four hours and despite my constant pleadings for a drink of water I got none. The following two days I was unconscious and once I did regain consciousness I was wired and clipped almost everywhere on my body. They said it was my own fault for not recognising the symptoms! I had no frame of reference with no one in my family had been or was currently diabetic which, they said, was no excuse! These days I inject insulin six times daily plus taking a gram of metformin. My eyesight is weakening, my weight is up and down and my median glucose reading is around 28. What will happen after May7 if the Tories win a majority, despite their rhetoric, the dismantling of the NHS will continue until it no longer exists and we will be paying for life insurance and medical treatments as they do in America. [/QUOTE]
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