More wonder than question?

[suffolkboi61]

I keep reading here there and everywhere that diabetes can lead to heart attack and heart disease.

Now as most of you know I had a heart attack in March 2008 and subsequently was diagnosed with heart disease.

Does it seem plausible then, that although being diagnosed T2 November 2009, I could of actually had diabetes long before March 2008 :?:

 

[noblehead]

Suffolk,

Absolutely yes! Sometimes people have diabetes a long time before diagnosis. Although I am surprised that they did not pick up on your diabetes (if you were) when you were in hospital after your heart attack.

Nigel

 

[irishrichard]

It was maybe 6 mths before I was diagnosed as T1, despite going to doctors as was losing weight and was extremely moody! Parents thought I was taking drugs and stressed over my final exams, similar to A levels!
GP did'nt like the fact I was telling him I thought I was diabetic so eventually just went to A&E with stomach pains and they said in space of an hour, I was diabetic

 

[Synonym]

Suffolkboi wrote, “Does it seem plausible then, that although being diagnosed T2 November 2009, I could of actually had diabetes long before March 2008 ”

Yes, very plausible and very probable!

The last stroke I had was more than three years before I was diagnosed as having diabetes. My blood sugars were commented on as being ‘a little higher than we would like’ for a considerable time but no mention was ever made of diabetes and shockingly no test was forthcoming until I applied extreme pressure.

I would contend that undiagnosed I was clearly cheaper than as a diagnosed diabetic! No-one had ever verbally connected the diabetes with the strokes until I posed the question at my first appointment at the hospital Diabetes Clinic and they acknowledged that I had probably been pre-diabetic and/or diabetic for 10 years. :shock:

Given the way that I have been able to get a handle on my condition within 6 months of diagnosis I feel that I was badly let down and had I been armed with the required knowledge could have prevented the onset of diabetes.

If the NHS was more pro-active they would save far more money than they may think they are currently doing by operating as a mere ‘crisis management’ organisation. The way in which health care is currently operating is not conducive to the betterment of the nation’s health. Restricting treatment to diagnosed health conditions is a third world option. Clearly there is not a bottomless pit of money available so I would contend that they have to be cleverer with their spending rather than scraping everything down to the bare minimum in order to save cash.

You do have to ask the question as to how many of the 5,000 per year amputees resulting from diabetes complications could have been prevented by providing testing strips on prescription? The casualties of these statistics are not only the 5,000 amputees who have lost limbs but the wider families too.
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