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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was 17 (i'm 23 now) I had v high blood sugars and had to spend a week in hospital. They put me on quite a high dosage of Novo mixtard 30 (can't remember how much exactly). I sometimes found it quite difficult to eat the right food and would reach for chocolate on occassions. But overally I wasn't too bad. I was on that insulin for quite a while, then they swapped me to 50 units of Levemir twice a day. That gradually got reduced until I no longer needed to inject.
I went to the diabetic clinic at my hospital in October (about 7 months after he told me I no longer needed to inject) and he told me I was no longer diabetic and he discharged me from the clinic. He said he no longer believed it was the honeymoon period as my results were perfect (sometimes even a bit low) for quite a length of time.
I had a Glucose Tollerence Test done at the hospital a couple of weeks ago, and they wrote me a letter the other day and said that my fasting blood glucose was 5.7 and 2 hours after the sugary drink, it had risen to 7.8 (which I thought was a good reading, but obviously not)......they said that I am not classed as diabetic, but that I have impaired glucose tollerance......What exactly does this mean? I've tried researching it online, but it's all a bit confusing!
The hospital suggested that I should see my GP and start taking Metformin..........The GP rang me today and said that they want to do another Glucose Tollerence test, and that I'm not going to be put onto Metformin at the moment. Metformin is a tablet to treat type 2 diabetes isn't it? But they're saying I'm not diabetic. Makes no sense to me. I don't know whether to be happy or sad or indifferent.
I went to the diabetic clinic at my hospital in October (about 7 months after he told me I no longer needed to inject) and he told me I was no longer diabetic and he discharged me from the clinic. He said he no longer believed it was the honeymoon period as my results were perfect (sometimes even a bit low) for quite a length of time.
I had a Glucose Tollerence Test done at the hospital a couple of weeks ago, and they wrote me a letter the other day and said that my fasting blood glucose was 5.7 and 2 hours after the sugary drink, it had risen to 7.8 (which I thought was a good reading, but obviously not)......they said that I am not classed as diabetic, but that I have impaired glucose tollerance......What exactly does this mean? I've tried researching it online, but it's all a bit confusing!
The hospital suggested that I should see my GP and start taking Metformin..........The GP rang me today and said that they want to do another Glucose Tollerence test, and that I'm not going to be put onto Metformin at the moment. Metformin is a tablet to treat type 2 diabetes isn't it? But they're saying I'm not diabetic. Makes no sense to me. I don't know whether to be happy or sad or indifferent.