Hi all,
First time poster here. I’ve had a bad time since the festive period with various symptoms that with a quick Google, brought up Type 1 Diabetes.
I’m a 23 year old female, never had any health issues before. Used to lead a very active lifestyle until I started working full time around 4 years ago. I have an uncle on my father’s side that is Type 1, diagnosed in his early 30s and a few more distant relatives that are Type 1 on my mother’s side.
My symptoms include:
I plucked up the courage to go to my GP as I hate feeling like a nuisance. Turns out my usual GP (who was very good) had retired from the last time I went and I saw a new one that works two days a week. The surgery seemed very busy and the waiting area was full. I was in with the GP for no more than two minutes. With just me mentioning my symptoms and not even mentioning the possibility of diabetes, she said my symptoms did seem consistent with diabetes and asked me to book an appointment to get bloods taken.
Got bloods taken around 4 days later. 7x different vials full for various tests. I was told to phone the surgery 3 days later for results. I phoned, spoke to a receptionist and was told my blood sugar was “outwith the normal range” and to call back in the afternoon. Before the afternoon, I received a call from a different member of staff asking me to make another appointment asap to see the GP.
Fast forward to the next day. First thing the GP tells me is that there was a problem with the glucose test and I’d need to get another one taken - I told her what the receptionist told me previously, she said she wasn’t sure what she was referring to.
However, she did say I was anaemic, very anaemic at that (haemoglobin level of 6). I was prescribed a strong dose of Ferrous Sulphate 4x daily.
Back for another glucose test. I call for results and was told by a receptionist there was no need to make another appointment just now. That was the end of that.
That was a month ago. So far, I’ve not felt any better at all, worse even. Feels like all the iron tablets have done is made me extremely constipated. All my previous symptoms are still present. I feel worse every day and the excessive thirst and urination is horrendous, I cannot sleep through the night anymore without having to get a drink or urinate during the night several times. I work in a customer facing role and I’ve had to excuse myself several times recently to go to the toilet or grab a glass of water.
I’m at the point now where I’m quite stressed about the whole situation and I haven’t told my mother (who I live with) as I don’t want to worry her. I do want to go to my GP again, however I don’t want to waste anyone’s time sounding like a hypochondriac and also due to the nature of my job, I don’t like taking time off if I can avoid it. I had the 3x appointments previously and by the third appointment, my line manager expressed concern (sympathetically, I may add) and asked if I was okay. I didn’t want to go into details or get sympathy so lied and said I thought I had a food intolerance.
Thank you to anyone who has gotten this far with my late night rambling. Are blood tests always conclusive? I don’t know what to think right now, whether I should go back to the GP and push for more tests or just put it down to the anaemia. It does concern me though that my symptoms seemed bad before, but they’re much worse now.
J.
First time poster here. I’ve had a bad time since the festive period with various symptoms that with a quick Google, brought up Type 1 Diabetes.
I’m a 23 year old female, never had any health issues before. Used to lead a very active lifestyle until I started working full time around 4 years ago. I have an uncle on my father’s side that is Type 1, diagnosed in his early 30s and a few more distant relatives that are Type 1 on my mother’s side.
My symptoms include:
- Weight loss (2.5st - 13st to 10.5st) over a short period. No obvious reason why.
- Blurred vision.
- Light headedness/dizziness. General ‘drunk’ feeling when it’s bad.
- Excessive thirst
- Increased urination. Smells strange too.
- Cuts taking forever to heal - I’ve a graze on my knee from November that still hasn’t healed properly yet.
I plucked up the courage to go to my GP as I hate feeling like a nuisance. Turns out my usual GP (who was very good) had retired from the last time I went and I saw a new one that works two days a week. The surgery seemed very busy and the waiting area was full. I was in with the GP for no more than two minutes. With just me mentioning my symptoms and not even mentioning the possibility of diabetes, she said my symptoms did seem consistent with diabetes and asked me to book an appointment to get bloods taken.
Got bloods taken around 4 days later. 7x different vials full for various tests. I was told to phone the surgery 3 days later for results. I phoned, spoke to a receptionist and was told my blood sugar was “outwith the normal range” and to call back in the afternoon. Before the afternoon, I received a call from a different member of staff asking me to make another appointment asap to see the GP.
Fast forward to the next day. First thing the GP tells me is that there was a problem with the glucose test and I’d need to get another one taken - I told her what the receptionist told me previously, she said she wasn’t sure what she was referring to.
However, she did say I was anaemic, very anaemic at that (haemoglobin level of 6). I was prescribed a strong dose of Ferrous Sulphate 4x daily.
Back for another glucose test. I call for results and was told by a receptionist there was no need to make another appointment just now. That was the end of that.
That was a month ago. So far, I’ve not felt any better at all, worse even. Feels like all the iron tablets have done is made me extremely constipated. All my previous symptoms are still present. I feel worse every day and the excessive thirst and urination is horrendous, I cannot sleep through the night anymore without having to get a drink or urinate during the night several times. I work in a customer facing role and I’ve had to excuse myself several times recently to go to the toilet or grab a glass of water.
I’m at the point now where I’m quite stressed about the whole situation and I haven’t told my mother (who I live with) as I don’t want to worry her. I do want to go to my GP again, however I don’t want to waste anyone’s time sounding like a hypochondriac and also due to the nature of my job, I don’t like taking time off if I can avoid it. I had the 3x appointments previously and by the third appointment, my line manager expressed concern (sympathetically, I may add) and asked if I was okay. I didn’t want to go into details or get sympathy so lied and said I thought I had a food intolerance.
Thank you to anyone who has gotten this far with my late night rambling. Are blood tests always conclusive? I don’t know what to think right now, whether I should go back to the GP and push for more tests or just put it down to the anaemia. It does concern me though that my symptoms seemed bad before, but they’re much worse now.
J.
