pure curiosity

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<br />It happened all of a sudden with me, I stood in the laundry room taking out the washing all happy because it did smell so nice, suddenly I had a wally of a panic attack, my vision was blurred and my mouth dry - I freaked, I was alone in the house at the time, ran over to my neighbour she called the ambulance because I was just pale and my speech was slurred, they did a test, 28.3!!!

I had absolutely NO symptoms before.

ThinType 2 - I hope all goes just perfect for you and baby/family

All the best everyone

Karen

Challenges can be stumbling blocks or stepping stones, it depends how you view them
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Thanks Chocfish, fingers crossed!

like most, i was thirsty all the time, and my family noticed i was losing weight rapidly. I was 11 at the time, so my mum took me to the doctor, who did my bm and my bs was 33.

i was taken to hospital but was reali confused as i didnt know what diabetes was, and then the nurses started giving me loads of injections!

Apparently, it could of been fatal if my mum hadnt taken me to the doctors.

I have now been diagnosed with type 1 for 5 years.

I'm a long-term survivor of HIV and have been in treatment for most of the past twenty years. In spring last year I decided that the time was right to have a drug holiday - it's safer to stop drugs altogether than it is to miss a few doses a month - as I was missing too many doses.

In late summer last year I went to my GP with thrush "down there". I presumed it was a result of my immune system being low, but thought it a little odd as I would usually get thrush in my mouth and throat. The thrush was treated successfully, but soon returned, this time in my throat. I decided it was time to re-start the anti-HIV medications.

At the same time as this I was getting through a two litre bottle or more of pop every night through the night, and getting up to go to the loo every half hour. I was falling asleep during the day and sleeping for several hours a time, as well as binge-eating late evening.

HIV can disrupt appetite, so wanting to eat was a welcome sign, and it also causes fatigue, so I put the frequent naps down to that. Many of the drugs used to treat HIV disrupt lipid levels and cause hyperglycaemia. At least one can cause pancreatitis. I didn't pay any attention to that: I was far more interested in monitoring how often the older of my two dogs was weeing - he's an old gentleman now and with a dog of his age, you keep an eye out for symptoms of diabetes...

So it was a bit of a shock when the HIV clinic phoned me the same day they'd take blood for a range of tests to tell me to get myself to my GP asap as I had diabetes. My fasting BG was over 20.

Thinking about it now, I think I probably started showing symptoms in 2004, but didn't pay much attention as my partner was very ill and I was his sole carer. I couldn't allow myself to be sick, which is why I didn't start my treatment holiday until after he had died.

Since THAT phone call I've been discovering how little is known about living with diabetes and HIV, which is odd considering the number of anti-HIV drugs that have hyperglycaemia etc as side-effects. So I end up being the squeaky wheel, continually asking questions about living with both illnesses, as much to show that the question exists, as to get an answer other than "I don't know"...

I had an unexplained bladder infection, the lady doctor took great delight in telling me all about Cranberry juice. To be honest ive been a fan ever since

Hi rottweilsteve, welcome to the forum. Glad you got your diabetes sorted, hope you are feeling a bit better now. Great site plenty of information, good luck take care junieliz

Hi

I was 12 when i was diagnosed, it started with when i ate i felt queasy, then when i went shopping on the saturday i became really thirsty and drank 4 bottles of pop in half an hour and still i felt like i was spitting feathers, my friends at school had remarked that i was looking "skinny" my parents thought i had an eating problem, i went to the GP on the monday who diagnosed me with gastroenteritis and told me to come back in a week.

Big mistake, next day i couldn't breath i was that dehydrated from being sick and (of course it was my blood sugars being through the roof!) so i went to see the emergency nurse at the GP who took one look at me and told me to get to hospital now.

I was admitted to hospital in A&E they took me to the resusitation room where they pumped 36 syringes of fluid into my arm i remember 6 doctors and nurses around the bed saying its dropping but i could not see what they was looking at? then asking me do you know where you are? do you think you are in disney land?? (what a silly question?)

I was then admitted to a childrens ward for a week, i had an hour to live before i would of went into a diabetic coma i was drifting in and out of consciousness and thats all because of my stupid GP!

I have no faith in my GP but other than that i have never been like that since because i know what dying feels like it horrible so i try an try to keep my blood sugars normal

Having completed 15 months of treatment for cancer, I had an infection that wouldn't clear even after antibiotics. Also energy levels were through the floor and they kept on saying that it was due to the cancer treatment- which may have been some of the problem.
Eventually I took a wee sample to the doctors and asked that she check it because she didn't believe that I still had the infection.
When she checked the sample, she went into panic mode and said that I was a "bit sugary"- numbers were 28.3

My numbers are still too high but I am slowly getting there; after having problems with the medication.
So I also have "challenges" with my own GP.

With help and advice I know that my blood sugars will be under control(ish) soon.

LOL
Lambkin

I was 7 when I was diagnosed lost loads of weight Mum still has a picture I look skeletal, really thirsty, complaining of a 'headache in my tummy', always tired and had 'moments' when I wasn't quite with it. Got taken to the doctor on a Monday morning and I was in hospital by the afternoon.
Never suspected diabetes no-one in my family has ever had it, my Mum always said I was a unique child!

Kimmy

im 17 & just noticed i was sleeping in the day.. always thirsty no matter how much id drank it would never clench my thirst & i lost half a stone.Then i went and got it checked out & my blood was 18 !


xx

Hi i was diagnosed 3 days ago with suspected Type 1, but i am waiting for the official results to come through Friday. Nobody in my family has it and im not obese. The Doctor did say it was a strange case! just to make me feel at ease. I was in Portugal when it started and my symptoms were extreme thirst for a few days, so i went to the doctors and he did bg test and 1 was 18.9. He told me i was diabetic and i need to stop all the sugary foods and exersise! I left a little confused and decided to fly straight back to the uk for a second opinion. I went to A&E as a friend who is diabetic tested my bg and it was now 27.9. A&E told me to go home as i was not ill enough (there were people lying in the corridor)and to go to the diabetic ward tomorrow. I am now waiting for my official results but in the mean time i am injecting 4 times a day and i am some what depressed! If i do have type one i think i know how! several months ago i had a root c******* treatment on one of my teeth, it didnt work and became quite badly infected, the root c******* was done again and became badly infected for a second time so i had the tooth extraced. I soon after developed shingles and i beleive this is all related but i suppose i will never know and there is not a lot i can do about it.

Can anyone recommend a good book for diabetes type 1 which includes good information on diet please?

i had pancreatitis 5 years ago then last autum started to drink lots and get up to go to the loo 6-8 time a night also i had flet very tried ever since i had the pancreatitis so my sister pestered me to get a test as she found out that she had it last summer

sami

HbA1c 7.7

hya,
i started feeling so tired and thirsty with funny vision and a strange headache,after 5 days i was derinking so much my mouth and lips were awfully sore and i felt terrible,on the monday morning i had a diabetes check at the lloyds chemist,my blood was 15.9 and i was told id need a glucose tolerance test which was scheduled for 10 days later but by the friday and after not eating any sugary things i felt so ill i honestly felt i was dying,i went and bought a blood monitor and my blood was 29.4 , i phoned my gp who said to go to a and e ,at the hosp they said i shouldnt be there but seein as i was they would check me out,my blood was 34.6 and i had plus 4 ketones so was put on an insulin and fluids drip,they said if i hadnt gone in i may not have woken the day after,that is my story lol
amanda

Hi.
I was at work doing some bms on elderly people. Decided to see what mine was like !! 23.5.
I never had a symptom at all. I had stopped smoking and was eating lots of sweets thought this may have been the reason, so I gave up the sugar easily I might add and it came down. Now diagnosed type 2 my last hba1c was 6.3. Mainly diet and I still like a drink every night. So do not despair you will live until you don't.

Welcome to the forum,Swine.(that sounds like I'm being really rude!)Hope you enjoy it here.There's plenty of help here if you need it,just ask away.

I pretty much diagnosed myself. Almost all male relatives on my fathers side of the family have had T2 at around my age (mid forties) - so there has always been a kind of inevitability about it. For a few months I had been getting tired much more easily than I used to, and when I started getting excessively thirsty I bought a blood glucose test kit from Boots. The results were pretty much at the top of the scale, so I went to the GP and asked for a glucose tolerance test. I got the results just over a week ago and here I am.

Had a waterworks infection , didnt know what to do about it cos it was weekend and went A/E. They said dont worry about that but your sugars are high 13 and here we are !

Dave P

Hi first time talking - just joined today 24th. I was probably symptomatic for a good 12 months without realising. My mother has been type 1 for 40 years and my father was type 2 for the last 6 years of his life so it was pretty much on the cards that I would be too at some stage.
It started with my vision - I wore contacts and my eyes kept watering. I went to the opticians who found nothing and suggested I wore glasses for a while - I didn't even own glasses as I had worn lenses for 30 years. However it got so bad I changed but hated it. I wore them for a year with no real improvement. Then I started getting up more in the night for the loo which I thought was due to the extra water - it was a really hot summer. Still I ignored it and although I saw my doctor in this time because I was so thirsty and had a "white" tongue - he put it down to an infection and gave me a cream to use and said it was something I would have to learn to live with. Over Christmas I stayed at my Mum's and on 29th Dec. she insisted on checking my blood and that of my sister. My sister was 6.8 - perfectly normal but mine was 30.2. Mum immediately gave me some of her Metformin 500g tablets for the next few days and when I went to my own Doctor on 2nd Jan. he did the relevant tests and made an appointment with the Diabetic Nurse for the following week.
Mum had also given me a diet sheet that she was given 40 years ago by her hospital so I followed that. For the first 3 months I was really good and kept to the diet sheet and tablets - felt 100% better and losing weight. Nurse was really pleased with me as my 3month blood to start was 13.3 but with tablets dropped to 8.8 and then 5.5 - unfortunately both the doctor, nurse and dietician all pooh -poohed my mum's diet sheet and said it was totally unnecessary to be so strict and I could eat normally - this despite the fact that my BMI is 54 and I weigh twice as much as I should. My normal is what gave me diabetes in the first place and although I tried to ignore them the professionals had broken my will and I went back to my previous ways. I found the "lost" weight and eat all the wrong things including doughnuts - it is me who is nuts and I know I am killing myself slowly and will end up a type 1 which I don't want to do. Why did they have to be so pompous and tell me to eat normally - I have never eaten normally in my life. Sorry on a bit of a self hate at the moment.

As far as I remember, my parents recognised the signs, due to my dad having t1. They took me to the doctor, who did a blood test and diagnosed Diabetes. I was whipped into hospital a few days later. I was lucky. It was caught really early.

To Kerrygold, welcome to the forum. Don't be down-hearted you'll get lost of invaluable advice on this forum, medics don't know everything. It worries me how trusting people are of anyone with the letters "Dr" in front of them. Your mum sounds a wise woman with a lot of experience, sounds like your healthcare professonals could learn a lot from her! If I did what my doc told me to do, I'd be dead. On thurs I changed to a long acting animal inulin after 4 yrs on Lantus. He told me to take a similar dose to that of the Lantus- 34 units. However I was very cautious and only took 8units for my first dose. Good job too, raised it to 11 today, last BS reading was 6.8! Mind you he was honest that he was clueless and had no experience of animal insulin treatment!
I was diagnosed at age of 19. I'd suffered thrush for a year before. I was lucky that my symptoms came on quickly over period of 8 months or so. The usual things weight loss, thirst, weeing constantly. I also had an incredible craving for sweet food and drink. I used to shovel in cakes and biscuits and sweet drinks-thought it was gr8 that i didnt put on weight! Then I got ill, flu like symptoms I thought. After the 3rd day in bed, i was taken to the GP who diagnosed me on a urine test. He was pleased with himself, I just sat and cried and he asked why I was crying. I felt like he'd given me a death sentence. I was sent to St Georges with a letter, seen immediately by a lovely doc and nurse my BS was 17.5. I was given loads of info, and felt more positive bout the future. I was sent home by 4 with a bag-full of goodies, and spent the next few hours practicing injections, I loved that bit!. There was immediate improvment in my health, and I had a "diabetic liaison sister" (do they still exist??) visit me everyday at home.
I too felt - wot a day! But I felt well again.
Justine

I found i was going for a wee every 30 mins, and hell i could have drunk for England