This is my 5th day of injecting myself 6 times a day for the rest of my life n I'm fed up. How do I get this at age 30? I've propa improved my lifestyle quite some time before symptoms and diagnosis and this is how my body reacts? I quit smoking, stopped taking sugar in my tea, started exercising more, I've never been over weight nor underweight, always enjoyed fruits n vegetables from being a child. It's been a while since I worked in a cake factory eating cake every day, why this now n not then?
About 6 weeks ago I called my doctors and asked for blood tests as my energy levels had plummeted, I'm up every hour of the night to pee n constantly thirsty, only the doctor can send you for blood tests they say, no appointments till next week. Saw my doc, yeah go for blood tests with the nurse, no appointments till next week. Had my tests, results due next week. Results only took 5 days, are you sure you fasted for this test? Your blood sugars look odd, we wanna retest - next week. I was getting worse n worse, I couldn't work properly, was in bed most hours, things were getting harder. Had my 2nd set of fasting bloods done n got the result 9 days ago, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and given some metformin, the diagnosis was wrong, 2 days later very sick and weak I was sent to hospital with type 1 diabetes.
Dehydrated, high ketones, they had a lot of trouble drawing blood n getting an IV in, I lost count of how many needles they poked me with n how many bags of fluid I went through, ended up with 3 bags at once, tubes everywhere, the regular stuff, a potassium mix n insulin drip. The day staff was all yeah we'll unhook you for toilet, I'd be waiting at least half hour for someone to plug me back up. The night staff was all nooo can't do that this is only a 6 minute insulin, that explains why your test results are all over the place. I was only in hospital 2 days, I don't think I was even admitted properly, wasn't tagged, they was that short staffed. Had a brief talk with a doctor who explained how to test and inject myself and I was let out an hour later.
I got outta hospital Sunday night, had an appointment with a nurse at diabetic clinic on Tuesday another quite brief discussion covering carb counting. Yoghurt is dairy so why is it carbs? Gonna see dietrition on Monday. I'm still a lil confused n overwhelmed. I feel like I've eaten more cheese n meat this week then in the last year, I'm used to eating n snacking throughout the day but most my snacks have carbs so that'd mean injecting nearer to 10 times a day right? And knowing what I'm gonna eat when, I've never been good at that, the last couple of days I've planned around 50g of carbs for dinner n ended up eating 150g or more. Yay comfort food.
Tis a lot to get used to, I'll get there in the end. I may be complaining but all the medical personal I've delt with have been kind, informative and supportive. I understand that noone knows why these things happen and there is no definite cause, sometimes its just the luck of the draw.
Thanks for letting me blow off steam, I'm off to go read, no doubt find some useful tips and advice. Still pretty gutted but what can I do? Just gotta deal with it.
About 6 weeks ago I called my doctors and asked for blood tests as my energy levels had plummeted, I'm up every hour of the night to pee n constantly thirsty, only the doctor can send you for blood tests they say, no appointments till next week. Saw my doc, yeah go for blood tests with the nurse, no appointments till next week. Had my tests, results due next week. Results only took 5 days, are you sure you fasted for this test? Your blood sugars look odd, we wanna retest - next week. I was getting worse n worse, I couldn't work properly, was in bed most hours, things were getting harder. Had my 2nd set of fasting bloods done n got the result 9 days ago, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and given some metformin, the diagnosis was wrong, 2 days later very sick and weak I was sent to hospital with type 1 diabetes.
Dehydrated, high ketones, they had a lot of trouble drawing blood n getting an IV in, I lost count of how many needles they poked me with n how many bags of fluid I went through, ended up with 3 bags at once, tubes everywhere, the regular stuff, a potassium mix n insulin drip. The day staff was all yeah we'll unhook you for toilet, I'd be waiting at least half hour for someone to plug me back up. The night staff was all nooo can't do that this is only a 6 minute insulin, that explains why your test results are all over the place. I was only in hospital 2 days, I don't think I was even admitted properly, wasn't tagged, they was that short staffed. Had a brief talk with a doctor who explained how to test and inject myself and I was let out an hour later.
I got outta hospital Sunday night, had an appointment with a nurse at diabetic clinic on Tuesday another quite brief discussion covering carb counting. Yoghurt is dairy so why is it carbs? Gonna see dietrition on Monday. I'm still a lil confused n overwhelmed. I feel like I've eaten more cheese n meat this week then in the last year, I'm used to eating n snacking throughout the day but most my snacks have carbs so that'd mean injecting nearer to 10 times a day right? And knowing what I'm gonna eat when, I've never been good at that, the last couple of days I've planned around 50g of carbs for dinner n ended up eating 150g or more. Yay comfort food.
Tis a lot to get used to, I'll get there in the end. I may be complaining but all the medical personal I've delt with have been kind, informative and supportive. I understand that noone knows why these things happen and there is no definite cause, sometimes its just the luck of the draw.
Thanks for letting me blow off steam, I'm off to go read, no doubt find some useful tips and advice. Still pretty gutted but what can I do? Just gotta deal with it.
