I’ve recently been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes but my doctor just didn’t give me any confidence if he was completely sure about what type I was.
About a week ago I noticed my eyes going blurry almost instantly, I can see close up but struggled to see people from far away, then when I was driving home I really struggled to see the signs and registration plates on other cars. I noticed my legs being like jelly, pins and needles in my finger tips, getting things confused / mixed up and struggling to concentrate properly, urinating well more and being thirsty all the time.
Even though I know now it is diabetes at the time I just thought I was coming down with a bug or being run down at work or something and would wake up just feeling fine. After 2 days I didn’t wake up any better just got worse. Before this all happened I never had any symptoms they all just basically come within a couple of days.
Anyway I went to the doctors and they said it could be possibly diabetes and asked me to go for bloods. After receiving the results the doctors rang me back on the day after to say I needed to make an appointment with the doctor sooner rather than later.
I had my appointment with him yesterday, he took my weight, height and then did a urine sample. Then he asked me some questions about what symptoms I had been suffering. I then explained everything in detail.
He kept saying to me your blood sugar levels have come back really high and that I wasn’t overweight just slightly overweight, he said to me about 3 times ‘but you’re not that big, you’re not that big but your sugar levels are really high’! It was almost as if he didn’t know what to diagnose for me, then after a really long pause he says ‘ OK I’m going to say you’ve got type 2 diabetes’??? He said that he didn’t think just dieting would sort it so he said about taking tablets to see if the sugar levels would come down with these.
I do appreciate that sometimes it must be hard for doctors to diagnose if they’re u sure but I just wanted to know if there was any determining factors that could tell me the main differences between type 1 and 2?
My next appointment is in 2 weeks with a diabetes nurse, which will be my first appointment with her so I know I should find out more then but will she be able to tell me properly if it’s type 2 or type 1 with more tests?
As I write this now it’s a week after the first symptoms and my eyes seem to be getting worse, but only for long sighted not when something is right in front of my face. My legs feel like they keep going dead, I literally only have to lean down on my arm/hand/leg for a few seconds and it goes all pins and needles, tingly. I have never been this thirsty in my life going through water like it’s going out if fashion. I’ve instantly changed my diet to see if that helps.
I just have so many questions but have to wait until the nurse appointment.
At the moment my eyes are really worrying me , will they just get better once the tablets are working and I change my diet?? Will the nurse send me for an eye screening test ? Does everybody who gets diagnosed get asked to go for an eye screening test?
Could wearing my wife’s long distance glasses for driving damage my eyes even more before I have a screening test ? Should I not wear them just incase ?
How will I know if I’m type 2 or 1 if I feel my doctor wasn’t even sure ??
I’m soooo confused
About a week ago I noticed my eyes going blurry almost instantly, I can see close up but struggled to see people from far away, then when I was driving home I really struggled to see the signs and registration plates on other cars. I noticed my legs being like jelly, pins and needles in my finger tips, getting things confused / mixed up and struggling to concentrate properly, urinating well more and being thirsty all the time.
Even though I know now it is diabetes at the time I just thought I was coming down with a bug or being run down at work or something and would wake up just feeling fine. After 2 days I didn’t wake up any better just got worse. Before this all happened I never had any symptoms they all just basically come within a couple of days.
Anyway I went to the doctors and they said it could be possibly diabetes and asked me to go for bloods. After receiving the results the doctors rang me back on the day after to say I needed to make an appointment with the doctor sooner rather than later.
I had my appointment with him yesterday, he took my weight, height and then did a urine sample. Then he asked me some questions about what symptoms I had been suffering. I then explained everything in detail.
He kept saying to me your blood sugar levels have come back really high and that I wasn’t overweight just slightly overweight, he said to me about 3 times ‘but you’re not that big, you’re not that big but your sugar levels are really high’! It was almost as if he didn’t know what to diagnose for me, then after a really long pause he says ‘ OK I’m going to say you’ve got type 2 diabetes’??? He said that he didn’t think just dieting would sort it so he said about taking tablets to see if the sugar levels would come down with these.
I do appreciate that sometimes it must be hard for doctors to diagnose if they’re u sure but I just wanted to know if there was any determining factors that could tell me the main differences between type 1 and 2?
My next appointment is in 2 weeks with a diabetes nurse, which will be my first appointment with her so I know I should find out more then but will she be able to tell me properly if it’s type 2 or type 1 with more tests?
As I write this now it’s a week after the first symptoms and my eyes seem to be getting worse, but only for long sighted not when something is right in front of my face. My legs feel like they keep going dead, I literally only have to lean down on my arm/hand/leg for a few seconds and it goes all pins and needles, tingly. I have never been this thirsty in my life going through water like it’s going out if fashion. I’ve instantly changed my diet to see if that helps.
I just have so many questions but have to wait until the nurse appointment.
At the moment my eyes are really worrying me , will they just get better once the tablets are working and I change my diet?? Will the nurse send me for an eye screening test ? Does everybody who gets diagnosed get asked to go for an eye screening test?
Could wearing my wife’s long distance glasses for driving damage my eyes even more before I have a screening test ? Should I not wear them just incase ?
How will I know if I’m type 2 or 1 if I feel my doctor wasn’t even sure ??
I’m soooo confused