ShyPhilosopher
Newbie
- Messages
- 1
- Location
- Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
- Type of diabetes
- Prefer not to say
- Treatment type
- Other
Hi everyone,
I'm Sarah, a 44 year old female living in Yorkshire, UK. I'm married, have 4 kids (1 of my adult kids lives independently) & 2 cats.
My diabetes story:
To say diabetes runs in my family, is a huge understatement. I'm the oldest member of my mum's side of the family who isn't (yet) diagnosed. I always new I was greatly predisposed to it. With all my family members, there was a large period prior to getting diagnosed of them being told if they didn't change their lifestyle, then this would happen. I didn't get that though. I always thought I would try to change when that happened. Instead, in January 2020 I was told I had "excellent" blood sugar levels. My husband & I were both really ill in March with suspected Covid. Since then, we've had all sorts of health problems. My husband got diagnosed with diabetes around April. Ironically, I had been telling him for over a year I suspected he was diabetic. I somehow missed the fact that much of my ill health reflected the symptoms of diabetes. In fact, my GP thought it was long covid I was experiencing. It finally dawned on me on 21st Dec that maybe I had strayed into prediabetic territory. The next morning, I used my husband's blood glucose machine (with his permission) & discovered my fasting blood sugar level was 8.2 mmol/l. I spoke to my GP who said that level did mean diabetes rather than prediabetes, but that I needed to have a blood test carried out by them to confirm. I'm booked in on 30th for this. Today, I again measured my blood sugar level, hoping it was a fluke. I got 8.1 mmol/l. I appreciate these aren't particularly high levels, but I don't understand how I went from not even having prediabetes in January to full diabetes months later. I've also been able to start linking together many of the incidences of feeling particularly unwell with sugar or carbohydrate intake. I'm therefore somewhere between the denial & grief stages of accepting what's to come. I'm particularly concerned about whether such a rapid onset implies it won't be type 2, therefore even lifestyle change won't have the sort of change I would hope for.
Anyway, apologies for such a long introduction. I think I just wanted to get things off my chest & this seemed like a great place to get information and support.
I'm Sarah, a 44 year old female living in Yorkshire, UK. I'm married, have 4 kids (1 of my adult kids lives independently) & 2 cats.
My diabetes story:
To say diabetes runs in my family, is a huge understatement. I'm the oldest member of my mum's side of the family who isn't (yet) diagnosed. I always new I was greatly predisposed to it. With all my family members, there was a large period prior to getting diagnosed of them being told if they didn't change their lifestyle, then this would happen. I didn't get that though. I always thought I would try to change when that happened. Instead, in January 2020 I was told I had "excellent" blood sugar levels. My husband & I were both really ill in March with suspected Covid. Since then, we've had all sorts of health problems. My husband got diagnosed with diabetes around April. Ironically, I had been telling him for over a year I suspected he was diabetic. I somehow missed the fact that much of my ill health reflected the symptoms of diabetes. In fact, my GP thought it was long covid I was experiencing. It finally dawned on me on 21st Dec that maybe I had strayed into prediabetic territory. The next morning, I used my husband's blood glucose machine (with his permission) & discovered my fasting blood sugar level was 8.2 mmol/l. I spoke to my GP who said that level did mean diabetes rather than prediabetes, but that I needed to have a blood test carried out by them to confirm. I'm booked in on 30th for this. Today, I again measured my blood sugar level, hoping it was a fluke. I got 8.1 mmol/l. I appreciate these aren't particularly high levels, but I don't understand how I went from not even having prediabetes in January to full diabetes months later. I've also been able to start linking together many of the incidences of feeling particularly unwell with sugar or carbohydrate intake. I'm therefore somewhere between the denial & grief stages of accepting what's to come. I'm particularly concerned about whether such a rapid onset implies it won't be type 2, therefore even lifestyle change won't have the sort of change I would hope for.
Anyway, apologies for such a long introduction. I think I just wanted to get things off my chest & this seemed like a great place to get information and support.
