Not sure if this is the right place to do this, but here goes:
I was diagnosed with type 2 on the 17th October this year, so it's all very new to me at the moment. If i'd have taken the time to research the net a bit more carefully I may have picked up on it a number of months ago when i first started having the, now obvious, symptons that may lead to a succesful diagnosis.
For me it started off with an increased intake of fluids, up to as much as 6 or 7 litres a day in some cases, plus an increase in appetite with weight loss - I just put it down to stress with my job (car salesman, under a lot of pressure). I'd been suffering with a recurring chest infection every 6 months for about 5 years, the doc just put it down to me "not being well and picking up every bug that was floasting around"
Then the dreaded genital itch started followed by thrush, so a trip back to the docs for antibiotics and cream. Still no mention of diabetes and no blood tests - doc said it was balanitis (is that how it's spelled ?)
After starting to clear, the symptoms became worse and it got to the point where i could not retract my foreskin at all (phimosis) - this started to have a dramatic effect on my previously active sex life. I rang NHS direct for some advice and they asked me a load of questions that I thought were completely irrelevant at the time - I now thank the staff there for their prompt actions.
A trip to my late night walk in centre provided results of 18.7 for my BM's - even the doc said they were quite high seeing as i'd NOT eaten for about 5 hours, plus a urine sample full of ketones confirmed that I was on my way to the hospital.
I was called at home around 3.30 am on the saturday to be told that they now had a bed. so could i drag my sorry ass into the H for some tests - in a nutshell I spent 4 days there while they got me stable. My highest reading went 26.8 whilst there.
Im on Metformin now, plus a helthy balanced diet, and am told in time i will return to some sense of normality, but can no longer go on the binges i used to have at work (the vending machine company may go bust now i'm told
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A minor op in 12 days will cause me no more problems with thrush and or phimosis as I now have to be circumcised. I check my BM's on a daily basis and for the last few days they were around the 9.6 mark - even after A 12hr fast, but again i'm told this will settle down in time - the only exception to this has been this morning when they were 14.2 with a check ketones message on my monitor.
I'm 35 and have been a bit overweight for a few years now, but the weight is literally falling off me - I was 18st 10lbs in december last year and on wednesday this week at the pre op assessment clinic i was 15st 11lbs, pretty much 3 stone in about a year.
So - i'll be an active participant on here, no doubt i'll have a million and one questions for people to answer, and i'll apologise if I ask something that has already been asked, but i'll try and make use of the search facility before I do.
Jim
I was diagnosed with type 2 on the 17th October this year, so it's all very new to me at the moment. If i'd have taken the time to research the net a bit more carefully I may have picked up on it a number of months ago when i first started having the, now obvious, symptons that may lead to a succesful diagnosis.
For me it started off with an increased intake of fluids, up to as much as 6 or 7 litres a day in some cases, plus an increase in appetite with weight loss - I just put it down to stress with my job (car salesman, under a lot of pressure). I'd been suffering with a recurring chest infection every 6 months for about 5 years, the doc just put it down to me "not being well and picking up every bug that was floasting around"
Then the dreaded genital itch started followed by thrush, so a trip back to the docs for antibiotics and cream. Still no mention of diabetes and no blood tests - doc said it was balanitis (is that how it's spelled ?)
After starting to clear, the symptoms became worse and it got to the point where i could not retract my foreskin at all (phimosis) - this started to have a dramatic effect on my previously active sex life. I rang NHS direct for some advice and they asked me a load of questions that I thought were completely irrelevant at the time - I now thank the staff there for their prompt actions.
A trip to my late night walk in centre provided results of 18.7 for my BM's - even the doc said they were quite high seeing as i'd NOT eaten for about 5 hours, plus a urine sample full of ketones confirmed that I was on my way to the hospital.
I was called at home around 3.30 am on the saturday to be told that they now had a bed. so could i drag my sorry ass into the H for some tests - in a nutshell I spent 4 days there while they got me stable. My highest reading went 26.8 whilst there.
Im on Metformin now, plus a helthy balanced diet, and am told in time i will return to some sense of normality, but can no longer go on the binges i used to have at work (the vending machine company may go bust now i'm told
)A minor op in 12 days will cause me no more problems with thrush and or phimosis as I now have to be circumcised. I check my BM's on a daily basis and for the last few days they were around the 9.6 mark - even after A 12hr fast, but again i'm told this will settle down in time - the only exception to this has been this morning when they were 14.2 with a check ketones message on my monitor.
I'm 35 and have been a bit overweight for a few years now, but the weight is literally falling off me - I was 18st 10lbs in december last year and on wednesday this week at the pre op assessment clinic i was 15st 11lbs, pretty much 3 stone in about a year.
So - i'll be an active participant on here, no doubt i'll have a million and one questions for people to answer, and i'll apologise if I ask something that has already been asked, but i'll try and make use of the search facility before I do.
Jim
