WhippetyGirl
Member
- Messages
- 22
- Location
- Eaton, Cheshire
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- Ipswich Town Football Club (also in my 'likes' - its a love/hate relationship), having diabetes, gastroparesis and bipolar, intolerance, the Daily Mail, social media (another love/hate thing), bigotry and hatred
I was diagnosed as a Type 2 nearly 10 years ago at the tender age of 34. I wasn't overweight but diet controlled quickly slipped to maxing out on Metformin, then Glimipiride and then Sitagliptin without ever feeling that I had any element of control of my ever increasing bms.
Anyway, I've been unwell for a few weeks with kidney pain and those bms have continued to creep up. Thursday night was particularly eventful when we hit 22.2 and ++++ ketones. GP Out of Hours referred me straight to A&E who identified that I was acidotic and probably an 'adult on-set type 1'. I had no idea such a concept existed (my GP had intimated I might be a Type 1.5).
So, here I am, posting from hospital bed, hooked up to fluids, just about to start on exenatide (Byetta), after being brought down yesterday by iv insulin.
I feel like a newbie all over again
Debs x
Anyway, I've been unwell for a few weeks with kidney pain and those bms have continued to creep up. Thursday night was particularly eventful when we hit 22.2 and ++++ ketones. GP Out of Hours referred me straight to A&E who identified that I was acidotic and probably an 'adult on-set type 1'. I had no idea such a concept existed (my GP had intimated I might be a Type 1.5).
So, here I am, posting from hospital bed, hooked up to fluids, just about to start on exenatide (Byetta), after being brought down yesterday by iv insulin.
I feel like a newbie all over again
Debs x
