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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
If Yehuda Levy could just make it through final exams, he thought he could ignore what was happening to his body.
He didn't know his blood was slowly turning into poisin.
"I was trying to make sense of what was happening," Levy told ABC News. "At one point, I thought maybe I had mono."
Levy, 21, a rising senior at Yeshiva University in Manhattan, had undergone a sudden 25-pound weight loss in about a month. His thirst became insatiable, and he felt fatigued and nauseous. He was also urinating up to 30 times a day.
Since he had recently undergone steroid injections for a herniated disc, he chalked it all up to missing time at the gym and stomach irritation from the ibuprofen he took for back pain. Soon his vision became blurry, and his eyes felt as if there was "sand" in them.
http://www.kmbz.com/Man-Diagnoses-His-Diabetes-on-Internet-but-Don-t-T/19110406
Erm, why didn't he go to the doctor in the first place if he felt like that? Having said that, I was in pretty much the same shape when I was diagnosed, partly due to the fact that I fell ill over a bank holiday weekend, so surgery was closed.
He didn't know his blood was slowly turning into poisin.
"I was trying to make sense of what was happening," Levy told ABC News. "At one point, I thought maybe I had mono."
Levy, 21, a rising senior at Yeshiva University in Manhattan, had undergone a sudden 25-pound weight loss in about a month. His thirst became insatiable, and he felt fatigued and nauseous. He was also urinating up to 30 times a day.
Since he had recently undergone steroid injections for a herniated disc, he chalked it all up to missing time at the gym and stomach irritation from the ibuprofen he took for back pain. Soon his vision became blurry, and his eyes felt as if there was "sand" in them.
http://www.kmbz.com/Man-Diagnoses-His-Diabetes-on-Internet-but-Don-t-T/19110406
Erm, why didn't he go to the doctor in the first place if he felt like that? Having said that, I was in pretty much the same shape when I was diagnosed, partly due to the fact that I fell ill over a bank holiday weekend, so surgery was closed.