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I'm Paul, a 45 year old from B'ham with Type 1. Suffered a heart attack in Nov of last year and was readmitted afterwards with Diabetic Ketoacidosis - trying really hard to maintain blood sugar levels now and I've lost about a stone in weight. I'm currently doing my cardio rehab - on session 6 - feeling good, know my body is changing, but the weight isn't. I know it will happen though!

Cheers and I look forward to getting to know you and finding out some useful stuff!
 
Hi Paul

Well that was quite a rough way to end the year! Good to see you’re feeling better and positive.

Always lots to learn on the forum...some of it even related to diabetes 🙂

Welcome along.
 
Hi Paul (we have another T1 Paul from Birmingham too! - but AFAIK he hasn't recently had heart problems.)

Presumably the DKA was for the normal reason ie that you didn't have any insulin circulating or if you had some - nowhere near enough of it anyway. Have you since had relevant help and advice about the effects of concurrent health problems in order to avoid it happening ever again? If not then please say so and we'll try and help by making relevant suggestions.

I've never had concurrent illness that affected my BG for more than 5 minutes (comparatively) but was gobsmacked in recent years when I accidentally fell over a speed bump and in the process smashed one of my kneecaps to smithereens which required pinning and a wiring to hold all the bits back together once they'd completed the jigsaw and fished all the spare unusable pieces out. I needed 3x my normal doses of insulin for a couple of weeks and it took months to get it back to anything like previously. I'd heard shedloads of times that we need 'more' but didn't realise how very much more! Luckily the senior Staff Nurse on the ward offered to call the hospital diabetes team pdq and I received excellent advice from them - I was just about to ask her to do that when she offered - having been and found a ketone meter (cos I've never needed or had one before) to check that first. Exemplary practice from a hospital not renowned locally or nationally for being all that brilliant overall, I have to add.

We are both here to tell the tale - onwards and - well downwards in the case of the ketones at least !

Hundreds of years of experience of living with our pal amongst the membership here so if there's anything at all you aren't 100% certain about - shout up!
 
Thanks both.

I have only just started the insulin. I’ve been type 2 for about 12 years, relatively under control, but When I was admitted for the heart attack my Ha1bc was 98. (I know I know).

There has been some indication that I won’t need it for ever, so at the moment I’m calling myself bidiabetic.

The diabetic acidKetosis was a mixture of things. One, I’d stopped eating properly, which sent my body into ketosis and then I had a major reaction to one of the medicines they introduced.

needless to say not on that now and everything seems to be getting back to normal. Next Ha1bc in February so hopefully it’ll have come down.

thanks again guys.
 
Welcome to the forum. 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum Paul.
Am I following the thread correctly? You've said both T1 and T2?
I'm also a fellow heart patient.
 
Welcome to the forum @rsdiscos

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis and heart troubles. Hope the rehab is going well.
 
Hi rsdiscos, I'm a Type 2 (TOFI) who's metabolic syndrome was first evidenced by coronary Artery problems whilst on an extreme version of the 'Eatwell/5 a day' supposedly to prevent such a thing. I needed a 3x Coronary Bypass.

After being diagnosed as Type 2 I decided to ignore GP's advice and look into the research myself. As a result I have almost totally reversed by previous way of eating and consequently reduced my HbA1C back into the pre-diabetic range and lost 23lbs making me even more in the healthy BMI range!
 
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