Type 1 ~ Wanting to introduce myself

[mum2westiesGill]

Hi,
🙂
I'm Gill & i've had Type 1 Diabetes for 19 yrs.
I'm on Humalog QA 3 x injections per day & Lantus BI at bedtime.

I joined diabetessupport on 20-09-2011, i've done approx 33 posts / 23 threads on here.
After 19 yrs this is where i've learned most of my info about diabetes 🙂 & i've still got loads to learn!
I use the Dafne site to log my bg results into the diary & to join in with the forums. It was here that a fellow diabetic recommended diabetessupport to me.

Here's my diabetes story
I had Gestational Diabetes during my 2nd pregnancy in 1991.
I was never told anything about Diabetes or told to monitor myself when the drs / hospital picked up on the GD towards the middle / end of my pregnancy😡 . I was never told to go
back or be monitored etc when my pregnancy had finished 😡 . In 1992, one year after i'd had Daniel, i was drinking loads, pints of water, sucking ice pops etc & i became extremely ill, i remember lying down on the settee one day with 2 small babies crawling around (hubby was at work), i called the dr out, they said i had a virus & to drink plenty of sugary fluids, i felt worse the next day, called another dr out & was told the same thing.
Then on the 3rd day my Mum & Dad knowing i was ill went armed with our shopping list, to get all our shopping, when they arrived at our house apparently my Mum came upstairs to find me in bed & i didn't know who she was......i came round in hospital, my bs was 65?, i was diagnosed as Type 1 Diabetic.

 

[Northerner]

Hi,
🙂
...they said i had a virus & to drink plenty of sugary fluids...

Hi Gill, thanks for the introduction! 🙂 That advice is scary isn't it? Just what you don't need! 😱 Actually, I was in a similar situation prior to diagnosis. I thought I had a bad stomach bug (actually, I did, but that was the least of my worries) and emailed a friend who knows a lot about first aid etc. She recommended getting some rehydrating powders and sipping sugary drinks to keep my energy levels up. Thankfully (?!!) I couldn't keep even small sips down. Eventually, I was so bad I called an ambulance. My levels were 37 at diagnosis - I can't imagine what 65 was like! Crazy, considering that a simple fingerprick test would have instantly shown what your problem was.

You are very welcome here. The collective knowledge and experience of all the members is what makes this place work so well, so thank you for your contributions - long may they continue! 🙂

 

[trophywench]

Cor Gill - what a drama! 😱

Mind you being adult myself at the time, you don't actually care much at the time what it is, do you? - just as long as whatever they tell you they can do about it, can just stop you feeling like this ....

 

[Robster65]

Hi Gill.

Good to read your background info. I hope you've changed your doctor since then ! 😱

To have 2 opportunities to diagnose you and still not spot anything has to be malpractice.

Rob

 

[Northerner]

Cor Gill - what a drama! 😱

Mind you being adult myself at the time, you don't actually care much at the time what it is, do you? - just as long as whatever they tell you they can do about it, can just stop you feeling like this ....

Precisely how I felt - I just wanted to stop feeling so terrible!

 

[Blythespirit]

Intresting to read your story Gill, thank you for sharing that with us. It does make you wonder when docs can't see what's right under their noses, doesn't it?

Our local GP who is now retired missed my mums diabetes for quite a while, even though he was Type 1 himself since childhood. He just kept blaming her age and testing to see if she was aneamic. That was 24 years ago, she was 46, a little overweight and showing all the classic symptoms. She even told him that my two sisters and myself had said we thought it might be diabetes. He said, 'Oh no, it wont be that!' Sigh. XXXXX

 

[Copepod]

Never too late to introduce yourself, Whiskysmum / Gill 🙂

 

[buckmummy]

My daughter was diagnosed 3 years ago after a so called virus.Two visits to our gp and two to an emergency dr.Called out emergency dr because she was sicking up black stuff....all he did was give her an injection to stop the sickness.In the morning she was unconsious,i called 999 and the paramedic took her blood sugars which were so high that they didn't register on the machine...her sugars were 58 on admission and she was in a coma like state for 3 days

 

[Northerner]

My daughter was diagnosed 3 years ago after a so called virus.Two visits to our gp and two to an emergency dr.Called out emergency dr because she was sicking up black stuff....all he did was give her an injection to stop the sickness.In the morning she was unconsious,i called 999 and the paramedic took her blood sugars which were so high that they didn't register on the machine...her sugars were 58 on admission and she was in a coma like state for 3 days

Oh my goodness, how awful I know that Type 1 diabetes is relatively rare in the scheme of things where childhood illnesses are concerned, but it often appears that whole lists of symptoms pointing to it are completely overlooked or dismissed. I know doctors have a lot of things to consider, but perhaps a fingerprick test could be a standard test when a child presents with bad sickness.

You're the second mother and daughter Type 1s that have joined in the past 24 hours!

 

[buckmummy]

Oh my goodness, how awful I know that Type 1 diabetes is relatively rare in the scheme of things where childhood illnesses are concerned, but it often appears that whole lists of symptoms pointing to it are completely overlooked or dismissed. I know doctors have a lot of things to consider, but perhaps a fingerprick test could be a standard test when a child presents with bad sickness.

You're the second mother and daughter Type 1s that have joined in the past 24 hours!

And i should have done a test on her myself