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<blockquote data-quote="Ewan32" data-source="post: 1043509" data-attributes="member: 261484"><p>My mother was diagnosed in her late 40's as having Type 2 Diabetes and was paranoid I would also follow. As such I tested my blood sugars at least 2 or 3 times per month using one of her spare meters and it was always between 5.3 and 6.1.</p><p></p><p>When I reached 50 I suffered a heart attack and underwent emergency stenting. You can imagine my surprise when a nurse handed me a syringe of insulin on my first night in the ICU "for my diabetes".</p><p></p><p>The doctor announce that it was my diabetes which had caused the heart attack but I know my glucose levels were fine as I had checked my blood only a few days before !</p><p></p><p>They just would not believe me and dismissed me out of hand. The nurse at the diabetic clinic who was tasked with teaching me how to inject was a bit more sympathetic saying she had met numerous patients where a heart attack had affected the pancreas.</p><p></p><p>My problem not is that I have put on 5 stone in weight in the last 7 years and no matter what I seem to do I cannot shift it ! Considering I was only 12st 10 when I had the heart attack and now I'm 18st 2 I find it difficult (if not impossible) to do much exercise as my feet are fairly numb and I get bad pain in my calf muscles when I walk over 300 meters or so.</p><p></p><p>So to answer the original OP - I never had a test to diagnose the diabetes before the heart attack !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ewan32, post: 1043509, member: 261484"] My mother was diagnosed in her late 40's as having Type 2 Diabetes and was paranoid I would also follow. As such I tested my blood sugars at least 2 or 3 times per month using one of her spare meters and it was always between 5.3 and 6.1. When I reached 50 I suffered a heart attack and underwent emergency stenting. You can imagine my surprise when a nurse handed me a syringe of insulin on my first night in the ICU "for my diabetes". The doctor announce that it was my diabetes which had caused the heart attack but I know my glucose levels were fine as I had checked my blood only a few days before ! They just would not believe me and dismissed me out of hand. The nurse at the diabetic clinic who was tasked with teaching me how to inject was a bit more sympathetic saying she had met numerous patients where a heart attack had affected the pancreas. My problem not is that I have put on 5 stone in weight in the last 7 years and no matter what I seem to do I cannot shift it ! Considering I was only 12st 10 when I had the heart attack and now I'm 18st 2 I find it difficult (if not impossible) to do much exercise as my feet are fairly numb and I get bad pain in my calf muscles when I walk over 300 meters or so. So to answer the original OP - I never had a test to diagnose the diabetes before the heart attack ! [/QUOTE]
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