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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
For six months, Alexandra Swann didn't know what was wrong.
She visited her doctor three times, and three times she was sent for tests, looking for everything from vitamin deficiencies, to thyroid and hormonal issues.
It all started with an increasingly unquenchable thirst, one that would wake her up in the middle of the night so she could drink water. That was matched by a frequent need to urinate and a pain in her leg at night.
And she was losing weight, about 30 pounds in the month before her diagnosis. She'd been exercising and dieting and got a lot of positive feedback for her new slimmer self.
She started experiencing cognitive issues, speaking slowly and not as fluently as she normally would. And she had an infection that just wouldn't go away.
Then it happened. She landed in hospital where tests showed her blood sugar levels, which are normally in the four to 10 mg per litre range, had hit 29 mg.
Within hours she finally had a diagnosis: Swann was a Type 1 diabetic at age 26.
http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/news/181022921.html
She visited her doctor three times, and three times she was sent for tests, looking for everything from vitamin deficiencies, to thyroid and hormonal issues.
It all started with an increasingly unquenchable thirst, one that would wake her up in the middle of the night so she could drink water. That was matched by a frequent need to urinate and a pain in her leg at night.
And she was losing weight, about 30 pounds in the month before her diagnosis. She'd been exercising and dieting and got a lot of positive feedback for her new slimmer self.
She started experiencing cognitive issues, speaking slowly and not as fluently as she normally would. And she had an infection that just wouldn't go away.
Then it happened. She landed in hospital where tests showed her blood sugar levels, which are normally in the four to 10 mg per litre range, had hit 29 mg.
Within hours she finally had a diagnosis: Swann was a Type 1 diabetic at age 26.
http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/news/181022921.html