Age of diagnosis, type 2 diabetics only please

[JimPD]

Diagnosed September 2017 - it's only been just over 2 weeks since starting meds and altering diet. Age 52.
Have got readings mainly below targets with just a few exceptions - took about a week
I have another blood test towards the end of Nov. As this is only 2 months from starting out, I dont think my Hba1c levels will reflect the improvement in full.

 

[Ally beetle]

Really interesting thread, thanks for starting this.
I am fairly new, dx this year aged 57. Dx hypothyroidism at the same blood test and started treatment for that for a month before I was told about the diabetes with hba1c of 53. I have no idea why that happened.
Because I had started treatment for the hypothyroidism I was already feeling a lot better and had no diabetic symptoms, so no thirst no extra wee etc. So it was a bit of a surprise, tbh.
I have lots of family on my mums side, including my mum, who also have both conditions. Plus a few t1d and ms. So definitely not a healthy autoimmune bunch. But because that side of my family is not close it never even occurred to me that I could have the same illness as them. Doh!!
Anyway, I weighed 101kgs in may, when blood test done. I now weigh 75 kgs. My recent hbalc was 39. My gp said that didnt I know that losing weight so quickly was dangerous and that lchf was extremely bad for me. I said I didnt want to go blind because I didnt think that would be good for me either. Cant wait for prof taylor to make his announcements in December. But I dont think many gps will change thier minds.

There are allot of Gps that are set in there ways and I think you have done a wonderful job losing so much weight and I am sure it is not as bad as having a high bmi. Hba1c of 57 is not bad at all and at 37 now you are on the way to being pre diabetic.

 

[Ally beetle]

Diagnosed September 2017 - it's only been just over 2 weeks since starting meds and altering diet. Age 52.
Have got readings mainly below targets with just a few exceptions - took about a week
I have another blood test towards the end of Nov. As this is only 2 months from starting out, I dont think my Hba1c levels will reflect the improvement in full.

I am sure if you will be fine. How have you found the information and training from your diabetes team? As I think it is very patchy around the country.

 

[Ally beetle]

I was 51 at DX, I only went to the Dr.'s to deal with my high BP but they insisted on a blood test....

I was surprised when I got a call to come back into the Dr.'s a few days later only to be told I was T2 with a FBG of 14 & an A1c of 9.3%. In the months prior to DX I had been quite lethargic, thirsty all the time, peeing a lot, craving sweet drinks (particularly Apple Juice) & unable to sleep with night sweats. In fact I think that it was a condition that had been worsening over the previous year.

After DX the pantry got kinda cleared & I started to reduce the carbs in my diet, conforming more to ADA guidelines in those days; trying new things to see what was working & what wasn't I actually ended up with a very low carb diet without really knowing what ketogenic diets were.

These days my FBG is typically bellow 5 (not at the moment as I'm just getting over a cold) & testing for my last A1c twas 5.5%, weight holding steady at around 165lb from 225+ at DX

A lot of this success is down to the fact that I test..... I wish the Dr.'s in the UK would advocate testing for T2's, it's pretty standard (here in the US) for all diabetics to be prescribed a test meter & adequate strips.

Before I got diagnosed. I was peeing like a racehorse at night getting up 3 times a night and so bursting that I could hardly walk to the loo will never forget that pain it was awful.

 

[Ally beetle]

Thank you to all who have taken part in my poll,

 

[Ally beetle]

I am still trying to get people to take part in the poll even if you do not want to write anything that's fine

so if you know anyone who has not taken part and will please encourage them

 

[Ditto]

I was wrongly diagnosed now the DN thinks, Type 2, they will tell me for sure at my next review, I think it's in six months. I was sailing close to the wind for years though and could have taken steps to avert this diagnosis and didn't because I'm a food addict. I'm not even a compulsive eater, I'm a food addict, I decided this week. I'm bonkers when it comes to food! I know lots of people say they are when they like junk food and stuff but I really am. 🙂 It's not just junk food, it's any food. I don't deal with food in a 'normal' manner.

I had yearly reviews for other conditions, ticker and liver and when my memory was bad I went to be tested for dementia, convinced I had it, but they phoned up to cancel the test saying it was 'just' my bg being high. Why didn't they tell me to get to grips with it then? I didn't have any symptoms but now I have blurry eyes which I hate.

Edit / Forgot to say aged 63...I think...

 

[Seabreeze]

Both my parents were diagnosed with late onset type 2 diabetes
I have no idea about their levels
for some years my mum was snoozing in the afternoon, then going to bed and getting the thirst and rushing to the loo for a little while and she went to the Dr about a skin growth on her knicker line and it was annoying her catching - not seeing the doctor about a possible bladder problem or about being thirsty! there wasn't the awareness then, but even so, it was getting excessive and after diagnosis and when things had calmed somewhat, she looked back and laughed her head off about that.

Skin tag was removed but the healing was crystalised and then the Dr tested for diabetes.
Diet controlled and lost about 2/3rds of her body weight, she literally vanished before our eyes that summer.
Diet controlled for many years and then started on tablets which increased over the years.

My (late) dad who was 20 years older than my mum was later diagnosed.
I think he was in his 80's when he was diagnosed, but no noticeable weight loss as he didn't really have any weight to lose.

 

[Jade]

I was dxd in January 1995, aged 25. Registering with a new gp as moved to Essex to go to college. Bg was 13, was diet only with little advice, then on various pills and potions until went on insulin in December 1998.
I had tests for diabetes when child as peed a lot and had skin infections but back then kids didn't get type 2.

 

[Ally beetle]

I was dxd in January 1995, aged 25. Registering with a new gp as moved to Essex to go to college. Bg was 13, was diet only with little advice, then on various pills and potions until went on insulin in December 1998.
I had tests for diabetes when a child as peed a lot and had skin infections but back then kids didn't get type 2.

good GP then, 13 was not too bad as a diagnosis BG but it is certainly not normal so you have had it quite a while and you were quite young when you developed diabetes but it seems to be more common being fairly young than I thought judging by the poll.

 

[Ally beetle]

Hi people sorry been at work busy and not checking up on things hope everyone is well

 

[Flo15]

I had gestational diabetes with my second child in 2002, however I have been told that I would have been classed diabetic with my first child to now as the levels at which they diagnose GD now are lower. I was 36 when diagnosed with diabetes Had to go onto insulin at 19 weeks pregnant. Then naughty me didn't ever go back for the six week blood test after the birth of my baby. Wasn't until my baby was three years old that I found my old blood testing machine with some strips still left and thought I would try one. My blood sugar was 15. I had no symptoms that I can remember. I made an appointment and was confirmed diabetic. I was put on metformin but they only worked for a year and then went straight onto insulin. Levels not great, find insulin so difficult

 

[Northerner]

I had gestational diabetes with my second child in 2002, however I have been told that I would have been classed diabetic with my first child to now as the levels at which they diagnose GD now are lower. I was 36 when diagnosed with diabetes Had to go onto insulin at 19 weeks. Then naughty me didn't ever go back for the six week blood test after the birth of my baby. Wasn't until my baby was three years old that I found my old blood testing machine with some strips still left and though I would try one. My blood sugar was 15. I had no symptoms that I can remember. I made an appointment and was confirmed diabetic. I was put on metformin but they only worked for a year and then went straight onto insulin. Levels not great, find insulin so difficult.

Anything we can do to help @Flo15, just pipe up 🙂

 

[rustee2011]

I was diagnosed as part of a routine test in the hospital in June 2011. The Doctor,upon testing my heart and blood levels came back and told me. I had diabetes (or rather I was diabetic). This was a shock to the system. But it was a delayed shock for me. I got into a period of anger and depression in September of that year. This was one of the triggers which caused me to go back on anti depressants - I was 40

 

[rustee2011]

Oh, I almost forgot, my HbA1c was 52 when tested. Last test this year was 50. In previous years got it down to mid 40s

 

[Ally beetle]

Thank you all