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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rushy" data-source="post: 107047" data-attributes="member: 21529">It all started in late September of 2006 with sweating a lot and a cough...    After having had the dammed cough for a few weeks and it NOT going away after all it was clear that more severe measures were needed, Little did I know HOW severe. I knew I'd been overdoing things by working full time and then popping round to look after my parents before going home but I probably just needed some multivitamins to get back on top of things.. On the Thursday morning I went to work feeling like death warmed up but deciding, as usual, that I just needed to shake it off by getting on with things. I was only at work for a few hours before it became clear that I could not continue. One of the girls from HR saw me taking a breather halfway up the stairs (Not very long ones either) and asked me if I was OK. After a brief chat it was decided that I couldn't stay at work and wasn't going to get any better without seeing a doctor. So I packed myself off home having made an emergency appointment with my GP. I got to see him at around lunchtime and told him what my symptoms were, including the new ones that had manifested themselves that day. (They were not nice at all so I will not share them here, but let’s say I thought I'd eaten something that had not agreed with me at all). He listened and said he needed to get some samples sent away to have a better idea of what was wrong so I provided him with a cup of one sample, no prizes for guessing what THAT was, and his nurse took some blood too. Once all was done I returned home with instructions to call him at 10AM the next day. At 9AM the next day my doctor called ME and said he thought I should go straight down and see him. This I duly did. When I got in to see him (he was having a really busy morning too) he sat me down and gave me the news... My white cell reading was off the scale so I must have been fighting something rather nasty. Also, my urine contained some worrying things. Namely Blood, high levels of Protein, & rather high levels of glucose which suggested that I might also be a Type 2 Diabetic. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />    Bearing in mind I had thought I was having an off day with a cough and a bit of a dodgy tummy it was a bit of a shock when he said he was having me admitted to the local hospital that morning and I should go home, pack a bag and report to the hospitals "Accident & Emergency department" forthwith. My friends next door were great and said they would drop me off there straight away, so I left my car at home and packed a bag. Thus I entered the local general hospital carrying my standard overnight bag and a couple of books to read. To cut a long story short.. (Too late, I know!)Four days, what seemed like a million doctors, chest x-rays, countless blood tests, and a ton of anti-biotics later; I was sent home but had still to discover what on earth was wrong with me. Some time later, having been around the houses and back to the doctor, I knew what the problems were.1st was Pneumonia.(Not a serious case and not life threatening thank heaven!)2nd was quite a serious urinary infection.(This was causing the high white cell levels and some of the nastier symptoms, Apparently diabetics are "prone to getting them")3rd I was almost definitely a Type 2 Diabetic.(A bit of a shock but until everything else was out of my system they couldn't confirm anything)I had to take a month off work and spend some quality time resting. Once we got into the new year of 2007 and did the glucose load tests etc. the diagnosis was confirmed.</blockquote>

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