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<blockquote data-quote="Tubbycatsmum_" data-source="post: 1700617" data-attributes="member: 294257"><p>Hi everyone thought I’d introduce myself and see if there’s anyone else who has followed a similar journey to this destination of type 2 diagnosis. </p><p></p><p>It’s a long one, bare with me</p><p>I was treated for childhood leukaemia (age 13) 29 years ago. I had aggressive treatment which consisted of high dose chemotherapy, total body radiation & a bone marrow transplant. As part of the treatment I had high dose IV steroids. These have resulted in damage to all my organs including my liver & pancreas. The chemo has also damaged my heart and I now have severe heart failure. I have an internal defibrillator fitted and will eventually need a heart transplant. I was told years ago I would no doubt end up with diabetes because of the treatment. I manage to fly under the radar for a while but last year my Hba1c started to creep up from 47 to 49. I’ve felt pretty **** over the 6 months but put that down to the heart failure & drugs but now starting to wander if it was the high sugars. The past 2 weeks was particularly bad in terms of fatigue and unquenchable thirst. My husband is type 2 so I tested my sugars over the weekend and they were continually above 17. So went to my GP’s and they tested it and was 25.5! They started me on 1mg of glimepirmide but after only 2 days of taking it I had a hypo (3.5). So they stopped that and put me on metformin but said I won’t be on that long as I probably need insulin. So here I am just waiting for appointment with an endocrinologist because my GP said I’m too complex to manage. They repeated my hba1c and said it will probably be above 120 with my sugars being so high, find out Monday.</p><p>Feeling pretty fed up, as if I haven’t got enough s*#t going on</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tubbycatsmum_, post: 1700617, member: 294257"] Hi everyone thought I’d introduce myself and see if there’s anyone else who has followed a similar journey to this destination of type 2 diagnosis. It’s a long one, bare with me I was treated for childhood leukaemia (age 13) 29 years ago. I had aggressive treatment which consisted of high dose chemotherapy, total body radiation & a bone marrow transplant. As part of the treatment I had high dose IV steroids. These have resulted in damage to all my organs including my liver & pancreas. The chemo has also damaged my heart and I now have severe heart failure. I have an internal defibrillator fitted and will eventually need a heart transplant. I was told years ago I would no doubt end up with diabetes because of the treatment. I manage to fly under the radar for a while but last year my Hba1c started to creep up from 47 to 49. I’ve felt pretty **** over the 6 months but put that down to the heart failure & drugs but now starting to wander if it was the high sugars. The past 2 weeks was particularly bad in terms of fatigue and unquenchable thirst. My husband is type 2 so I tested my sugars over the weekend and they were continually above 17. So went to my GP’s and they tested it and was 25.5! They started me on 1mg of glimepirmide but after only 2 days of taking it I had a hypo (3.5). So they stopped that and put me on metformin but said I won’t be on that long as I probably need insulin. So here I am just waiting for appointment with an endocrinologist because my GP said I’m too complex to manage. They repeated my hba1c and said it will probably be above 120 with my sugars being so high, find out Monday. Feeling pretty fed up, as if I haven’t got enough s*#t going on [/QUOTE]
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