how did you find out ?

[Marz Barr]

How did you find out that you had diadetes ? myself I got it through a chest infection my gp said i had asthma but to cut a long story short when i got to hospital my b,s was 44 and my husband who was my boyfriend at the time was told i had 2 hours to live i went into kidney failure at the time i was only 1 of 2 people that this had happend to , in the whole country, I was saved by dialasys (not sure of spelling) while in a coma for 8 days and my consultant later wrote about it in the British medical gernal Oh by the way i survived the 2 hours and im still hear 13 1/2 years later.
Wendie

 

[ChocFish]

Blooming heck, that is one way of finding out, all I can say that I am so glad that you are here

Please stay healthy and happy and dont let this disease get the better of you

Love from

Karen x

 

[Marz Barr]

thank you Karan I will I consider my self lucky there are a lot worse things in the world than being a diabetic and while i was in a coma my boyfriend told my parents that we were getting married so i had no escape :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[lionrampant]

I barely recall the experience. I was very high, lips turning blue, etc. In fact everything after the doctor visiting my parent's house is just gone - no memory whatsoever until that evening after I'd have my first injection.

 

[sixfoot]

Bladder infection remembered only because of the Pain and the lady Doctors enigmatic smile when she demanded a urine sample :cry: :cry: :cry:
Tears .........Crocodile Tears

Dave [

 

[donnamum]

Daughter complained of pins and needles all day in left arm. Kept rubbing it better and saying' it'll go away soon you've just banged your funny bone"

Early evening decided to nip down to A&E. So they could x-ray it and bandage it and send us on our way. Ha ha ha.

Within 12 hours they diagnosed type 1 diabetes, Epilepsy, Under active thyroid. Here we are six months later and she is still undergoing tests for the pins and needles/trembling sensations. They don't believe it is linked to the two other conditions. How exiting... another diagnosis to look forward too.

It never rains but pours, then thunders and then snows.

 

[Marz Barr]

i don,t remember any thing about the time only what hubby and doc,s have told me when i started to recover but still in hospital my diabetic consultant asked me if i remembered any think i said no and he replyed it,s perhaps best and hubby reckons that when i got to hospital i wanted to go home to use the bath room I was told that there was one there but that one was,nt good enough all i wanted it for was to cough up phlegh and was fighting with a male nure and hubby

 

[KimSuzanne]

Kept complaining of a headache in my tummy ( I was 7) dropped to 2 and a half 3 stone, they thought I was anorexic. Spent a week in hospital.
I've had a coupe of bad DKA episodes like you Marz Barr I saw little green men and decided that I wanted to go to a club whilst still in intensive care - the poor nurse must have wished she hadn;t come to work that day

 

[Carol11]

I went to a walk-in clinic because of a cough that would not go away. (I didn't have a family doctor at the time-they're in short supply here). He sent me to the lab for a bunch of tests and then called me at home at 9:00 at night what a surprise to hear from the doctor himself,. . to get to the hospital right away because my blood glucose was 33. I hadn't a clue what it meant. I was rarely ill, a cold every 3-4 years was it. I got in to see the triage nurse almost right away, another surprise , emergency rooms are always crowded. She asked why I was there-I mean I felt fine none of the symptoms that they say to look out for-I stated what the doctor said and she asks, just looking at the computer not at me, if I was diabetic and I said no. So she says "well you are now" still typing at the computer with no eye contact, no compassion, just that stark comment. I was in total shock. Little did I know how my my life would be destroyed by this type 1.5 diagnosis. I do what I'm supposed to but I'm still looking for the way out. No one can tell me how or why a 60 year old woman developed a childhood disease. Nor can they or will they tell me how to get rid of it. I know I can't live like this or go on like this. Carol

 

[chocoholic]

It was picked up when I went to give blood at a blood donoring session. :roll:

 

[Amberella]

Kept getting thrush which I had never had before and was always tired and thirsty, happened to see a diabetes poster in the hospital when I was visiting a relative and thought - oh, I've got all those symptoms and went to the doc and told her I thought I had diabetes. She tested me and my blood sugar was then over 30. No history of it in my family at all. I was 46 when diagnosed.

 

[diabetesmum]

My older daughter, then ages 8yrs had been flopping about, no energy, for ages - we thought she was becoming a teenager too early. Then she started drinking and weeing and drinking and weeing.... So one night I deliberately made notes on what she was doing and thought to myself that I only knew of one thing that caused so much weeing and drinking and that was diabetes. So we went up to the doctor, and from there straight up to hospital. Thankfully she wasn't ketotic.

Anyway just over a year later I started noticing similar symptoms in my 2 yr old. After a few days of being in denial (how STUPID AM I!!) I made myself test her BG - 27.1. Straight up to hospital, and the rest as they say is history. No we wonder what we ever thought about before diabetes came into our lives.


Carol11 - you can live with this, you know, and even have a good life, provided you get the knowledge and support you need to manage the disease. And although Type 1 (or 1.5) might be thought of as a child's illness, anyone can develop it at any time. Maybe you should try and look at it in another way - at least you've had 60 years diabetes free. Chin up!
Sue

PS No-one can tell us why both our daughters developed it either - beacause nobody knows. And there is no cure, not yet, though things are looking hopeful on that front.

 

[hanadr]

For Carol
You have not ruined your life.
You can choose to be a useful and productive person. Even if your metabolism isn't working as it should, There's much you can contribute.
I too am in my 60s and spend a lot of time researching and battling on the subject of care for diabetics. I keep fit by walking and swimming and spread the low carb word far and wide. I have had a few people say they're glad they met me, who have managed to reduce their medication and improved their BG control. I even have a friend with reactive hypoglycaemia, who has found low carbibng helpful. She can keep her BG. level without the mega drops she gets if she eats a carb meal.
In addition, I take people with learning difficulties for a walk in the park, which is very rewarding. Some of these are folks without speech, who smile when they see me coming. It's wonderfully uplifting.
I am sure that anyone who has lived 60 years has something to give and nothing feels better than giving.
PS, I fell over in the bathroom, which turned out to be a stroke. They found the diabetes in the hospital

 

[Langlands85]

I was at a friends borthday, day out and my mam had given me money for a mcdonalds-spent all of it on drinks and nothing on food then went to friends nannas house and remember feeling very embarrassed that i ahd to keep asking for drinks of water.......got taken home and carried into house (friends dad thought i was asleep but was actually unconcious) he told mam of weired behaviour all day.......by the time mam had ironed oen shirt i had drank 8 glasses of water and been to the toilet several times....luckily mam is also type one and noticed symptons straight away. I always remember her crying and asking when was the last time i ate and i hadnt all day so the doctor was called and that was that!

 

[millie]

Hi there. i found out when i was really ill. and off school for a week. Then i went to the docters and they took a sugar sample. i was diagnosed the next day and spent 4 days and 3 nights. I am 11 and i have had it for a week now and it is very stressfull. I hate it when my friends eat choclate. Do you have any good tips on what snacks 2 eat when im with all my friends please xxx :lol:

 

[rottweilsteve]

I spent the past few years watching how often the older of my two dogs drinks and pees as elderly dogs are prone to diabetes. Somehow or other, I managed to miss the fact that I was sugar-binging at night, getting through a two litre bottle of pop every night and getting up to go to the bathroom three or four times a night... I put my daytime fatigue down to HIV infection and my irritability to a lifetime's practice :mrgreen:

My partner died of aids in March last year and I stopped all my own medication because I knew I couldn't keep up with the adherence that is necessary with HIV medication (miss more than a couple of doses a month and you're risking the virus mutating, so it's actually safer not to take any medication than it is to take it half heartedly). I had an episode of thrush where I wouldn't normally get it, treated it successfully, but decided it was time to go back on HIV medications.

Half an hour after I got back from the HIV clinic, the specialist nurse was on the phone telling me to see my GP immediately if not sooner as I had diabetes: my fasting BG had come up at 20+. Two days later I was just about to leave the house to go to the medical centre when the same nurse rang to tell me to see my GP as a matter of urgency as my cholesterol was "through the roof". Fortunately the local health centre is a little more level headed... I'm currently on the maximum dose of gliclazide and my last Hba1c was 6.3 despite the fact that I'm helping friends run a tourist trap tea room!

On that last figure, I have to admit that I had a dose of cryptosporidiosis - the bug that was found in the water supply in Northampton quite recently - which contributed quite a bit to the low figure as I couldn't eat anything without severe pain for more than two weeks. If ever there's a cryptosporium alert in your area, do not, under any circumstances, use any water that hasn't been boiled. Crypto is no fun at all! (For the record, I probably got it from feeding orphaned lambs, which aren't as cute and cuddly as the media suggests...)

In case you're wondering, both dogs (Zeus is 12.5 year old and B'Elana is nearly 8 - pretty good going for rottweilers!) had their checkups recently and neither is showing any signs of diabetes.

Here endeth the tale of woe. (I think this is the point at which Stephen Fry hands me the bottle of port that's been going round the table. Miracle of miracles, I remember to pour a glassful rather than drink from the bottle!).

Steve

 

[Marz Barr]

Hi Steve
I,m so sorry for the loss of your partner I to love rottis they are so loving and i would love to hear more about them any time i just love the breed and i love the picture of the rotti
Wendie