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@markwalley
Happy New Year to you! What a bombshell to start the year with. Had you been having symptoms for long, or did it come out of the blue?
I guess choosing 1st Jan is one way of making your ‘diaversary’ easy to remember
🙂
It is perfectly natural to feel a bit overwhelmed by a diagnosis like diabetes, but try not to worry. Diabetes is potentially serious, but it’s also a condition that can usually be managed well with a few adaptations and changes to diet and lifestyle, and any meds that may be needed to support your metabolism. It is something you can learn to live well with, and shouldn‘t stop you from doing things you enjoy.
Slightly unusual to have a diagnosis of T2 come about via ‘urgent care’ - were you in for something else? Have you been unintentionally losing weight?