Hi Fazza, welcome to the forum 🙂 Sounds like you are doing well if you are controlling things by D&E eight years down the line. How did you come to be diagnosed, and what do you think you owe your good management of your diabetes to? I look forward to hearing more from you 🙂
I was diagnosed when I had an abscess near my bellybutton. As they were squeezing out all the puss they took my mind off of it by asking me loads of questions that I thought were just run of the mill questions until they took a urine sample and said I needed to have a blood test!
For months (maybe even longer) I had been very thirsty so was urinating a lot and as at work I was drinking lots of fizzy drinks (with all that sugar in them) that wasn't really helping things!
I guess I was feeling very tired as well and on occasion I had fallen asleep - well I now know my body had so much glucose in it, it was shutting down.
Not only had I had mates at the cinema wondering where I was, but I missed birthday parties as well. I just assumed I was really tired from a hard days work.
Looking back the worst time I crashed out was the time my Dad came home on a sunday afternoon and decided to have a boil in the bag curry. He prompty fell asleep and the water boiled away leaving the plastic to melt and fill the house with black smoke!
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Luckily the neighbours saw the smoke and rushed around the house banging on all the doors and shouting to get out of the house. I didnt hear any of this and as they had no response from my room, they assumed I was not in.
Luckily it was just a bit of smoke or it could have been a whole lot worse!
