Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
WHEN I WAS first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes six years ago, I didn’t even know what it was. I do now because I had two very serious attacks and was unconscious both times for a considerable period because I took too much insulin.
The first attack was when I was coming back from holiday with some golfing friends. I was in an airport in London and was walking down one of the terminals when I collapsed. I knew it was coming. I didn’t know where I was. I went into a state and I couldn’t work out what was happening to me at all.
The next thing, I woke up in hospital in London. The first thing I said when I woke up was, “Jesus, what happened there?” I was completely out for 25 minutes.
Luckily, the minute I collapsed, the ambulance people were able to attend to me and take me away to hospital.
That happened about a year and a half into my diabetic illness.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2011/1213/1224308996975.html
Shame about this line:
'There is no doubt that you could live a life whereby you wouldn’t need to take insulin even if you were insulin- dependent like I am, but [for me] it is not recommended by doctors.'
The first attack was when I was coming back from holiday with some golfing friends. I was in an airport in London and was walking down one of the terminals when I collapsed. I knew it was coming. I didn’t know where I was. I went into a state and I couldn’t work out what was happening to me at all.
The next thing, I woke up in hospital in London. The first thing I said when I woke up was, “Jesus, what happened there?” I was completely out for 25 minutes.
Luckily, the minute I collapsed, the ambulance people were able to attend to me and take me away to hospital.
That happened about a year and a half into my diabetic illness.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2011/1213/1224308996975.html
Shame about this line:
'There is no doubt that you could live a life whereby you wouldn’t need to take insulin even if you were insulin- dependent like I am, but [for me] it is not recommended by doctors.'
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