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<blockquote data-quote="Nicole T" data-source="post: 2302975" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>I must admit, after drinking, I'm still finding myself up in the night for the toilet, and a little dehydrated in the morning. But I think that's normal even for a non-diabetic after 4 or 5 pints. The big diabetes clue should have been when it was happening without the alcohol, which it was pretty much every night/morning when my sugars were completely out of control.</p><p></p><p>The sleep issue is largely down to renewing my mortgage and realising I have 17 years left still to pay on it. I will be nearly 70 by the time I'm done. With a diabetes diagnosis 2 months ago, and my dad dying recently, leaving me the oldest survivor in my parents' family line, the mortgage thing has just forced me to project 20 years into the future and contemplate my own mortality. Precisely the sort of thing that kicks in at 3am.</p><p></p><p>My mum (diagnosed Type 2 around my age) had a mantra of "Diabetics don't live past 60." She made it to 76 and died from something completely unrelated.</p><p></p><p>New mortgage deal signed, and the forms are in the post. I've gone through some finances and looked at how my circumstances will change (for the better.) A significant monthly outgoing should end over the next few years, and I should be able to pay it off sooner, as long as I'm sensible with my money.</p><p></p><p>I slept from around 10:30pm until 6:30am, and I think I've caught up on some of what I've lost. Blood down to a fairly typical 6.3 this morning.</p><p></p><p>I'm on a calcium/magnesium/zinc/D3 supplement already, though looking at the bottle just now, apparently I'm supposed to have been taking 2 tablets a day.</p><p></p><p>Post edited by mod to remove personally identifiable details.</p><p></p><p>Re the mod edit: a good call, with hindsight, but I've edited in some less specific detail, since it lost something with the changes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nicole T, post: 2302975, member: 527609"] I must admit, after drinking, I'm still finding myself up in the night for the toilet, and a little dehydrated in the morning. But I think that's normal even for a non-diabetic after 4 or 5 pints. The big diabetes clue should have been when it was happening without the alcohol, which it was pretty much every night/morning when my sugars were completely out of control. The sleep issue is largely down to renewing my mortgage and realising I have 17 years left still to pay on it. I will be nearly 70 by the time I'm done. With a diabetes diagnosis 2 months ago, and my dad dying recently, leaving me the oldest survivor in my parents' family line, the mortgage thing has just forced me to project 20 years into the future and contemplate my own mortality. Precisely the sort of thing that kicks in at 3am. My mum (diagnosed Type 2 around my age) had a mantra of "Diabetics don't live past 60." She made it to 76 and died from something completely unrelated. New mortgage deal signed, and the forms are in the post. I've gone through some finances and looked at how my circumstances will change (for the better.) A significant monthly outgoing should end over the next few years, and I should be able to pay it off sooner, as long as I'm sensible with my money. I slept from around 10:30pm until 6:30am, and I think I've caught up on some of what I've lost. Blood down to a fairly typical 6.3 this morning. I'm on a calcium/magnesium/zinc/D3 supplement already, though looking at the bottle just now, apparently I'm supposed to have been taking 2 tablets a day. Post edited by mod to remove personally identifiable details. Re the mod edit: a good call, with hindsight, but I've edited in some less specific detail, since it lost something with the changes. [/QUOTE]
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