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Day of diagnosis

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Which days were people diagnosed?

I was diagnosed just after Christmas when I was 10. With all the sugar being taken in and around that time it luckily made my grandparents notice I wasn't terribly well. Also helped that my granddad had been diagnosed a couple of years earlier.

My first injection I gave myself was on New Year's Day!
 
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Hullo there! I was diagnosed early December - I forget which day it was - quite a while ago!! It was shortly before my 5th birthday!! My diabetes was completely undiagnosed and my blood sugar was over 100 - the meter didn't go any higher! I was in a coma for 3 weeks and only given 6 hours to live depending on whether the insulin they gave me worked on or not - luckily it did! I spent Christmas and my birthday (26th December) in hospital and my Mom was taught how to do injections by having to practice on an orange!! Thank goodness diagnosis and awareness of diabetes has improved greatly since then!
 
It's really common for people with Type 1 to be diagnosed around the Christmas period. I can quite understand why!

I think that's highest blood sugar I've every known about! No wonder you went into a coma. Sounds like someone must have been smiling on you when you pulled through it.
 
I have two children with type 1 diabetes. My daughter was diagnosed on the 1st of January 2001 which was New Years Day and had DKA. I can't remember what day it was other than it was a holiday!! My son was diagnosed on Tuesday, 17th April 2007 (I didn't remember either the day and had to look it up)! We self diagnosed him.
 
How interesting Fiona - you mentioned in another post that diabetes runs in your husband's family - I know there is a lot of debate about diabetes and if it can be inherited. There is no record of it in my family at all - hence it wasn't diagnosed until critical!
 
I have a lot of diabetes Type 1 in my family so it frustrates me when people say it's not hereditary. I have it, my dad has it, my aunt has it and my granddad has it! Makes me a bit of an expert!

We all got it later in life though. My dad and I were both in our mid 20s.
 
I was diagnosed on the 23rd Janaury 2006, so nearly three years now. Still feels like two mintues though.
I think more people notice it around christmas because all you eat is junk food and do little or no exercise, also people who you dont see a lot notice odd things that people you live with dont.
When i read other peoples stroys it makes me so sad, even though my diabetes does not upset me at all.
xxx
 
i was diagnosed on 1st Sep 2000, although looking back, i can say that i had symptoms for much longer than that.
 
I can't actually remember when I was diagnosed as Type 2. But my maternal grandmother had it, my mum had it, my dad has it, his brother and sister have it...so maybe their parents had it who knows?? And my husband had Type 1 from when he was 18. I warn my daughter that she maybe high risk with so many family members having it. We can only hope she listens.
 
April 24,2008, a saw the GP in the morning, the specialist in the afternoon and was injecting insulin in the evening, same as the rest of you, not a day to easliy forget.
 
I was diagnosed in February or March, about 15 years ago. My sister and I both got a tummy bug, the sort of thing that kids get all the time, but I did not get better from it, just kept getting worse. After a few days I was really bad, my breathing was funny so my mum called the GP (apparently that was possible in those days lol, no chance of a house call in the evening nowadays) and he called the ambulance. I must have been annoying as I did not like the paramedics carrying me downstairs, I wanted to walk, and I kept taking the mask off my face as well. I was out of hospital within a week, I had learned to do my injections since I did not want to be in there any longer than I had to be. I didn't want my mum doing them either. There was one girl who had been there for months, she could not do injections neither could her parents, so she couldn't leave, I thought that was very sad and did not want to be like that.

My dad was Type 1 as well. He passed away when I was about a year old. He did not look after himself from all accounts, was fat, drank and smoked and did not do his blood sugars or anything. I think I have inherited some of those tendencies, I too am fat and do not look after myself. I don't want kids because I don't want to do to them what my dad did to me, leaving them too soon and passing on this condition.
 
Hi Lizzie,

Things in the world in general but particularly in regard to attitudes to health have moved on. Children and parents bring a lot of pain but each has its own unique rewards. : ) plus they keep the species going

Alistair
 
I am the same as you only in hospital for a week, because i didnt want to stay any longer.
Because i was 16 they didnt know where to put me. I ended up on the adults ward, full of old women who had really bad problems with diabetes.
While i was in one woman was told she would have to have one of her legs off, and if she didnt improve maybe the other one aswell. She had been in there for a year.
The way they where scared me to death, thats why now i try to do my best to look after myself. I dont mind dying thats just part of life. There are worse things than dying.
xxx
 
17th February 1997

I was diagnosed in 1997 on the 17th February after being ill for about 2 months then finally going into a coma at my grandparents house 3 weeks later I woke in Blackpool intensive care unit and was told I had Diabetes. Being only 10 I thought it was going to be the end of the world but 11 years on and I am still here. Not so much the end of the world. :D
 
Lizzie said:
My dad was Type 1 as well. He passed away when I was about a year old. He did not look after himself from all accounts, was fat, drank and smoked and did not do his blood sugars or anything. I think I have inherited some of those tendencies, I too am fat and do not look after myself. I don't want kids because I don't want to do to them what my dad did to me, leaving them too soon and passing on this condition.
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that is such a sad thing to say! :(:( there is no guarantee that what unfortunatley happened to your dad will happen to you xxx
 
I was diagnosed in July 2004, the third day of the summer holidays :(,
I thought i just had a sore throat...
turns out the thirst was just a symptom of diabetes.
 
I've just 'celebrated' my 7th year 😛 of being type-1 (Oct 28th 2001)...I remember in the few days before going to see the doctor that I was drinking about 3 pints of water and still be thirsty...so drink 2 more pints..and so on!
 
I got diagnosed on my dad's birthday - 19th March 1979. Next year it will be 30 years - it seems really strange where those 30 years have gone!!!
 
hi all,

i was diagnosed 18th Jan 2005.
my sugars were 26.

i remember bein really thirsty and needin the toilet, the september before wen i was on hols, so i had the symptoms for about 5-6 months before that.
 
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