Hi thanks for having me here, i don't want to bore people with my life but im hoping maybe someone will be able to help with my problem, it may be long winded but i don't wont to leave anything that may be important.
before I start I have only just been diagnosed with type 2 last month.
my story starts when I was around 14 years old (im now 28) i was on holiday in Malta going to get dinner when all of a sudden i felt strange, lost color, mild shakes, hunger, hard to communicate feeling like im going to pass out was very scary, hard job walking or moving, also like a hot wave shooting over my body from feet up.
after eating I was fine but just tired, upon my return home parents took me to the doctors about this and after tests said nothing was wrong,
well as the years have gone on i seemed to of got more and more of these "funny turns" and just lived with it,
cutting some bits out i come to 2009 when i lost my job with the stress of everything i started to get more of these "turns" (like 2-3 times a week) so back to doctors on the demand of the wife and (mother in-law who is diabetic) . told its depression and stuck me on some anti-depressants, (the mother in-law has always said my "turns" are the same as hers when she is low) went back as i was still having the "turns" but really just shrugged off,
after a few months i had enough of that doctor and asked to see someone else,
after this appointment i was told no driving i may have a dodgy heart! shortening the story abit a year had passed had a internal heart monitor fitted which showed nothing, blood test ok apart from slightly high cholesterol, so got my license back and was happy although "funny turns" remain. cardiologist advised maybe have a head scan so off i trot for a MRI, found empty seller (oct 2012)
so towards end of January i start waking up 6 or more times in the night went on for a couple of weeks, so i go to see my paramedic friend who tests me i was at 26mhol and due to eat my dinner, advised me to go to hospital so i did,
after 2 drips of fluids, blood test, urine sample, a nurse came round tapped me on the back as if to say congratulations and said you have diabetes,
i was put on metformin 500mgx2 twice a day within a week it came down also cut out all the rubbish to lose weight which I lost around 1st maybe more. now having my own machine while testing my blood one day when i was having a "turn" it was 4.2 which ive had a few especially eating less ect, when i next went to see my diabetic nurse i told her and she just shrugged it off saying i just need to eat more regular (i already have 3 meals and 2 snacks) and told me not to take dextros as i wont pass out its nothing to worry about, but she told my in-law below 4 is on the floor.
yesterday I had my appointment with the neurologist who said my empty seller is ok bla bla bla told him my syptoms and that i have recently been diagnosed with diabetes, showed him my book and he seemed shocked to see so many 4.0, 4.2 and 3.8 and said metformin shouldn't make me go low (which i know) and that i need ask the endocrine (sorry for spelling) for tests???
im just getting very confused with it all and just want to feel "normal"
i suppose my main question is what do people think?
have you had any of the troubles?
should i keep seeing the same people or ask for someone else?
many thanks for reading i hope it makes sense and sorry if ive dribbled on,
kind regards Chris.
before I start I have only just been diagnosed with type 2 last month.
my story starts when I was around 14 years old (im now 28) i was on holiday in Malta going to get dinner when all of a sudden i felt strange, lost color, mild shakes, hunger, hard to communicate feeling like im going to pass out was very scary, hard job walking or moving, also like a hot wave shooting over my body from feet up.
after eating I was fine but just tired, upon my return home parents took me to the doctors about this and after tests said nothing was wrong,
well as the years have gone on i seemed to of got more and more of these "funny turns" and just lived with it,
cutting some bits out i come to 2009 when i lost my job with the stress of everything i started to get more of these "turns" (like 2-3 times a week) so back to doctors on the demand of the wife and (mother in-law who is diabetic) . told its depression and stuck me on some anti-depressants, (the mother in-law has always said my "turns" are the same as hers when she is low) went back as i was still having the "turns" but really just shrugged off,
after a few months i had enough of that doctor and asked to see someone else,
after this appointment i was told no driving i may have a dodgy heart! shortening the story abit a year had passed had a internal heart monitor fitted which showed nothing, blood test ok apart from slightly high cholesterol, so got my license back and was happy although "funny turns" remain. cardiologist advised maybe have a head scan so off i trot for a MRI, found empty seller (oct 2012)
so towards end of January i start waking up 6 or more times in the night went on for a couple of weeks, so i go to see my paramedic friend who tests me i was at 26mhol and due to eat my dinner, advised me to go to hospital so i did,
after 2 drips of fluids, blood test, urine sample, a nurse came round tapped me on the back as if to say congratulations and said you have diabetes,
i was put on metformin 500mgx2 twice a day within a week it came down also cut out all the rubbish to lose weight which I lost around 1st maybe more. now having my own machine while testing my blood one day when i was having a "turn" it was 4.2 which ive had a few especially eating less ect, when i next went to see my diabetic nurse i told her and she just shrugged it off saying i just need to eat more regular (i already have 3 meals and 2 snacks) and told me not to take dextros as i wont pass out its nothing to worry about, but she told my in-law below 4 is on the floor.
yesterday I had my appointment with the neurologist who said my empty seller is ok bla bla bla told him my syptoms and that i have recently been diagnosed with diabetes, showed him my book and he seemed shocked to see so many 4.0, 4.2 and 3.8 and said metformin shouldn't make me go low (which i know) and that i need ask the endocrine (sorry for spelling) for tests???
im just getting very confused with it all and just want to feel "normal"
i suppose my main question is what do people think?
have you had any of the troubles?
should i keep seeing the same people or ask for someone else?
many thanks for reading i hope it makes sense and sorry if ive dribbled on,
kind regards Chris.