Since speaking to the consultant, I have been thinking a lot about weight loss before my original diagnosis as something had been bothering me. I think I now have an explanation, and I was wondering if it makes sense.
When I was diagnosed it was with an HbA1c of 11.2% / 99 mmol/mol, but I was never aware of any symptoms. Presumably, given what has happened since, that was due to the start of my insulin output slowly reducing.
Whenever asked about any weight loss before diagnosis I have always said I was not aware of any. Partly because I assumed if there was any it would have been more sudden and apparent. And that did not happen. But for my levels to have gotten that high they must have been rising for some time. So does that mean weight loss would have been equally as gradual, that it would not have been as obvious?
One time at a birthday party at my sister's, one of her friends asked if I had lost weight which struck me as odd at the time. I had not done anything different and we not aware of it. But as someone who only saw me once a year or so, she had a better perspective to see something I would not. And I did go down a size at some point before diagnosis, though I cannot say precisely when either occurred. So I never made any connection.
Does that make sense? That my levels could have been slowly rising for a year or more before diagnosis, and my weight similarly going down so slowly that I would not really notice? Or would weight loss have occurred more quickly if caused by diabetes?
When I was diagnosed it was with an HbA1c of 11.2% / 99 mmol/mol, but I was never aware of any symptoms. Presumably, given what has happened since, that was due to the start of my insulin output slowly reducing.
Whenever asked about any weight loss before diagnosis I have always said I was not aware of any. Partly because I assumed if there was any it would have been more sudden and apparent. And that did not happen. But for my levels to have gotten that high they must have been rising for some time. So does that mean weight loss would have been equally as gradual, that it would not have been as obvious?
One time at a birthday party at my sister's, one of her friends asked if I had lost weight which struck me as odd at the time. I had not done anything different and we not aware of it. But as someone who only saw me once a year or so, she had a better perspective to see something I would not. And I did go down a size at some point before diagnosis, though I cannot say precisely when either occurred. So I never made any connection.
Does that make sense? That my levels could have been slowly rising for a year or more before diagnosis, and my weight similarly going down so slowly that I would not really notice? Or would weight loss have occurred more quickly if caused by diabetes?
