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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hello, I'm Adrijan from Macedonia, 24 years old, was diagnosed with Diabetes Type 1 4 (four) years ago, and since then I'm injecting 14 + 10 daily units of Insulin (Novomix) Aspart 30.
In the beginning, everything was fine (except an annoying tingle in the legs afterwards spreading toward other parts of my body, which triggered on hot temperatures) and I was feeling fully energized, with only slight hypo's slipping here and there along the merry diabetic way.
But, two years since the diagnose, things started getting weird: first, I experienced severe fatigue out of nowhere (sometimes sugar blood levels were under 10 mmol/liter, other times they were above 20 mmol/l, but never above 30 mmol/l, and they were fluctuating in the range of 2 - 25 mmol/l. My HbAc1 for the time being was somewhere between 5,7 to 7% periodically in three months, but never above 7,1%, i.e. 8.0 mmol/l.
Then I went on the work and travel program trough one of our agencies, and was working in South Carolina, North America (changing time zones) for approx. three and a half months, a time which saw some changes in my energy levels and sleep patterns (usually, I slept very little and was experiencing severe amount of stress due to the long working hours and climate change). I was also feeling very tired most of the time, with the same blood sugar fluctuations, under which I took the liberty to inject multiple doses daily after severe hyperglycemia episodes because I was afraid of ketone acidosis or whatever horrors diabetic patients experience.
Then I got back in Macedonia (my country of origin) and started to have severe stomach or gastrointestinal pains, and one time I got so sick that I vomited and had a severe diarrhea for a week, which was preceded by irregular heartbeat, irregular sleeping patterns, general fatigue and stomach pains. Afterwards, I took some tests which showed that my heart was perfectly fine (yes, even a stress test) and I did a endoscopy (a tube in your stomach) after which I was diagnosed with a small hiatus hernia, and was prescribed some B vitamin, or Neurobion (after which I was getting very sleepy), Emanera (which is a beta blocker I think) and a digestive helper under the name Digeston.
Afterwards and some time before, I was experiencing stomach pain usually after eating a large and greasy meal (but not always), and the pain was starting in the abdomen and ending in my throat (or so I was feeling), which felt like it was about to implode on itself. The symptoms came and went, but were mostly present (4 from 7 days in the week, with intensity fluctuations). My energy level took a curve to the worse. In the meantime, right before I took the stomach test, there was a two week period when I wasn't sleeping at all, and it seemed like my heart would burst out in the fashion of a Xenomorph from the first Alien movie.
Afterwards, I did a blood test sample, which showed that everything is fine (iron good, urine negative, all crisp), except a slight increase in my bilirubine levels (35.95 mmol/l from the usual 24 threshold, and direct bilirubine level 9.06 from the usual 5.1 threshold). Also, before the blood sample test, I did a thyroid function test, which strangely enough, on the first try showed 3.29 TSH, 16.2 ft4 and 433.3 ATP-O, and the ATP-O went down in the normal range on the second test.
Today, 4 (four) years after the initial diagnose, I feel like my energy levels are way down from what they've used to be, and my blood control is tighter than ever, never going above 10 mmol/l or below 3 mmol/l; I also started cooking healthy meals and all, but sometimes I feel like after an insulin shot and a medium or large meal, my heart races against my body and I feel all shaky, or sleepy, and basically the next 4/5 hours I'm just battling with myself and trying to stay focused despite the irregular heartbeats and extreme fatigue/drowsiness/sleepiness. Sometimes I have trouble sleeping, but not always; also, sometimes I get tired after only one short trip to the store, when another time I'm making 100 push-ups (in 5 series) without a major problem. Usually I feel moderately tired upon waking, and severely tired after breakfast, with blood sugar levels in the normal range (before meal, 1 hour after meal, and so on and on).
And there you have it, my whole psycho-emotional life after the diagnose just poured into several paragraphs of boring text that's probably no one read. But if you do, did you had a similar experience, and most importantly, what can I do to make life better and feel more energetic and succeed in it (if possible)?
With kindest regards,
Adrijan
In the beginning, everything was fine (except an annoying tingle in the legs afterwards spreading toward other parts of my body, which triggered on hot temperatures) and I was feeling fully energized, with only slight hypo's slipping here and there along the merry diabetic way.
But, two years since the diagnose, things started getting weird: first, I experienced severe fatigue out of nowhere (sometimes sugar blood levels were under 10 mmol/liter, other times they were above 20 mmol/l, but never above 30 mmol/l, and they were fluctuating in the range of 2 - 25 mmol/l. My HbAc1 for the time being was somewhere between 5,7 to 7% periodically in three months, but never above 7,1%, i.e. 8.0 mmol/l.
Then I went on the work and travel program trough one of our agencies, and was working in South Carolina, North America (changing time zones) for approx. three and a half months, a time which saw some changes in my energy levels and sleep patterns (usually, I slept very little and was experiencing severe amount of stress due to the long working hours and climate change). I was also feeling very tired most of the time, with the same blood sugar fluctuations, under which I took the liberty to inject multiple doses daily after severe hyperglycemia episodes because I was afraid of ketone acidosis or whatever horrors diabetic patients experience.
Then I got back in Macedonia (my country of origin) and started to have severe stomach or gastrointestinal pains, and one time I got so sick that I vomited and had a severe diarrhea for a week, which was preceded by irregular heartbeat, irregular sleeping patterns, general fatigue and stomach pains. Afterwards, I took some tests which showed that my heart was perfectly fine (yes, even a stress test) and I did a endoscopy (a tube in your stomach) after which I was diagnosed with a small hiatus hernia, and was prescribed some B vitamin, or Neurobion (after which I was getting very sleepy), Emanera (which is a beta blocker I think) and a digestive helper under the name Digeston.
Afterwards and some time before, I was experiencing stomach pain usually after eating a large and greasy meal (but not always), and the pain was starting in the abdomen and ending in my throat (or so I was feeling), which felt like it was about to implode on itself. The symptoms came and went, but were mostly present (4 from 7 days in the week, with intensity fluctuations). My energy level took a curve to the worse. In the meantime, right before I took the stomach test, there was a two week period when I wasn't sleeping at all, and it seemed like my heart would burst out in the fashion of a Xenomorph from the first Alien movie.
Afterwards, I did a blood test sample, which showed that everything is fine (iron good, urine negative, all crisp), except a slight increase in my bilirubine levels (35.95 mmol/l from the usual 24 threshold, and direct bilirubine level 9.06 from the usual 5.1 threshold). Also, before the blood sample test, I did a thyroid function test, which strangely enough, on the first try showed 3.29 TSH, 16.2 ft4 and 433.3 ATP-O, and the ATP-O went down in the normal range on the second test.
Today, 4 (four) years after the initial diagnose, I feel like my energy levels are way down from what they've used to be, and my blood control is tighter than ever, never going above 10 mmol/l or below 3 mmol/l; I also started cooking healthy meals and all, but sometimes I feel like after an insulin shot and a medium or large meal, my heart races against my body and I feel all shaky, or sleepy, and basically the next 4/5 hours I'm just battling with myself and trying to stay focused despite the irregular heartbeats and extreme fatigue/drowsiness/sleepiness. Sometimes I have trouble sleeping, but not always; also, sometimes I get tired after only one short trip to the store, when another time I'm making 100 push-ups (in 5 series) without a major problem. Usually I feel moderately tired upon waking, and severely tired after breakfast, with blood sugar levels in the normal range (before meal, 1 hour after meal, and so on and on).
And there you have it, my whole psycho-emotional life after the diagnose just poured into several paragraphs of boring text that's probably no one read. But if you do, did you had a similar experience, and most importantly, what can I do to make life better and feel more energetic and succeed in it (if possible)?
With kindest regards,
Adrijan
