What would have happened?

[Diabeticliberty]

@Diabeticliberty .Thank god for that chemist else we might not be enjoying your jokes now.

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[trophywench]

(I wish he'd meet another one with more up to date jokes, myself ...)

Usual thing - drinking and peeing for England, permanently knackered, eating Caramacs by the lorry load, and BRILLIANT! - size 12s are hanging off me!! However I felt that awful if they'd said they had to chop my arm or leg off to cure it I'd have said 'Go and get the saw and do it now, please!' As has been said to find out it was 'only' T1 - was a huge relief!

 

[Annette]

...practicing self injections with half an orange.

Only half? Most people get a full one. Had you eaten the other half? 😉

 

[Ljc]

Only half? Most people get a full one. Had you eaten the other half? 😉

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I reckon the other half ran away coz it was scared

 

[palmoff]

I had various symptoms which led me to think I had a brain tumor, like falling asleep in a conversation, drinking literally gallons of cherry coke and eating everything in sight.
Being put on insulin was about the best thing that has happened in a while to me, the difference was like night and day, my eyesight cleared I was awake for more than an hour at a time.
If I hadn't have been diagnosed, I no doubt would have died at some point all that sugar marauding itself through my capillaries clogging stuff up, it most probably has done some damage, but it would have much worse if allowed to continue.

 

[Diabeticliberty]

Only half? Most people get a full one. Had you eaten the other half? 😉

NHS cuts are not a modern phenomenon 😛 it is also worth noting that a chap who got diagnosed a week after I did was reduced to practicing on a balloon from the staff Christmas party. This of course has had quite a negative long term affect as every time he takes insulin he has to be strapped down as flies all over the place making a high pitched squealing noise like a busted inner tube.

 

[chili]

A few close calls by the sounds of it, and here we all are sharing experience's recipes and bg readings. Personally i don't think i have yet accepted that i am type2 diabetic as i don't really feel any different i still get tired but that is maybe down to work and also when i am off work i stay up till 3am and then get up at 8:30am i have never been one for lying in bed too long. Prior to my initial diagnosis i loved sweet stuff, but i have cut alot of it out, (not 100%) and i always had a healthy appetite if it was put in front of me i ate it. i don't think i have ever had a hyper or a hypo. So thats me in denial or just plain stupid am not too sure 🙂

 

[Maz2]

I am a regular blood donor and agreed to enter into a study to see if people could successfully give more often than the usual 16 weeks. I was then asked to enter a parallel study about coronary heart disease and I said I would. The researchers asked me to have a blood test for lipids, cholesterol and fructose levels which I did. They alerted my GP that the "fructose" level was a bit high. She requested an hba1c and found I was 42. I was shocked at this as my fasting blood glucose on a previous test 2 1/2 years before was 5.4 (a different test I know from the hba1c). She asked to have another after three months which I did. It is now 43.

I have reduced my carbs and the Lifestyle Nurse feels that, as everything else is OK, it is not too much to worry about but I have to see the GP on Friday this week. My friend said last week that if I had not gone into the research I would have been "blissfully unaware" of any of it. I am glad I did though as, although I am concerned I may not be able to reverse this now, at least I know and can try to delay it hopefully. I would rather know now than find out when it has caused complications.

 

[Caroline]

I was diagnosed in 2006 and had been backwards and forwards to my doctors for ages with many of the classic symptoms. His advice was lose weight. The my firm held a health awareness day which my understanding manager let me spend most of the day at. I had a battery of tests and the conclusion of the health care workers and nurses was I have diabetes. So armed with a sheet of results off I went to my doctors who reluctantly agreed to my having more formal tests which lead to my diagnosis, but he didn't actually tell me I had diabetes, he just said the items on the prescription would make me feel better. When I went to the chemist it was the pharmacist who told me and told me what I ad to do next and the forms to fill in...

Had it not been for the event at work I would not now be here to tell the tale...

 

[Ljc]

I am a regular blood donor and agreed to enter into a study to see if people could successfully give more often than the usual 16 weeks. I was then asked to enter a parallel study about coronary heart disease and I said I would. The researchers asked me to have a blood test for lipids, cholesterol and fructose levels which I did. They alerted my GP that the "fructose" level was a bit high. She requested an hba1c and found I was 42. I was shocked at this as my fasting blood glucose on a previous test 2 1/2 years before was 5.4 (a different test I know from the hba1c). She asked to have another after three months which I did. It is now 43.

I have reduced my carbs and the Lifestyle Nurse feels that, as everything else is OK, it is not too much to worry about but I have to see the GP on Friday this week. My friend said last week that if I had not gone into the research I would have been "blissfully unaware" of any of it. I am glad I did though as, although I am concerned I may not be able to reverse this now, at least I know and can try to delay it hopefully. I would rather know now than find out when it has caused complications.

Thank heaven you joined in that research.

 

[Ljc]

I was diagnosed in 2006 and had been backwards and forwards to my doctors for ages with many of the classic symptoms. His advice was lose weight. The my firm held a health awareness day which my understanding manager let me spend most of the day at. I had a battery of tests and the conclusion of the health care workers and nurses was I have diabetes. So armed with a sheet of results off I went to my doctors who reluctantly agreed to my having more formal tests which lead to my diagnosis, but he didn't actually tell me I had diabetes, he just said the items on the prescription would make me feel better. When I went to the chemist it was the pharmacist who told me and told me what I ad to do next and the forms to fill in...

Had it not been for the event at work I would not now be here to tell the tale...

Thank heaven you could go to the health awareness day, I dread to think what would have happened to you having a GP like that

 

[MarkT]

A few close calls by the sounds of it, and here we all are sharing experience's recipes and bg readings. Personally i don't think i have yet accepted that i am type2 diabetic as i don't really feel any different i still get tired but that is maybe down to work and also when i am off work i stay up till 3am and then get up at 8:30am i have never been one for lying in bed too long. Prior to my initial diagnosis i loved sweet stuff, but i have cut alot of it out, (not 100%) and i always had a healthy appetite if it was put in front of me i ate it. i don't think i have ever had a hyper or a hypo. So thats me in denial or just plain stupid am not too sure 🙂

I'm there too Chili.....

 

[Martin Canty]

I guess I'd been unwell for a while, increasing tiredness, thirst (my go-to was apple juice), peeing..... To the point where I was doing a few minutes of yard-work then going inside to rest & drink. I guess (looking back) the first time I felt something wrong was perhaps 8-9 months earlier when (on a SAR callout in the Mojave) I had a hell of a time, putting it down to the heat as it was 45 degrees & no shade; on the first day I pretty much was unable to stay hydrated, on another day I spent perhaps 10 minutes on a quad before having to declare defeat & ride in the UTV. At that time I put it down to heat exhaustion!!!
Closer to DX I found myself falling asleep at my desk, could have been problematic but for the fact that I work from a home office.
I got diagnosed as a result of having to go to the Dr's for High BP.... There was no option of avoiding it as I needed to lower my BP to pass my commercial drivers medical... He insisted on blood tests, I went along with it to humor him!!!! Surprise, Surprise when a couple of days later I was summoned back to be told I was diabetic (I was assuming low BG hence all the apple juice)

The last 15 months has been a learning experience, now, losing over 1/5 of my body weight (now 170lb), FBG at about 5, last a1c 36 (expect the new one which is due to be even better, like near 30), BP normal, cholesterol almost normal (elevated LDL in February)