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Type 2 Diabetic Saying Hi!

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Fazza

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Just thought I'd write a few lines to introduce myself and say Hi before I have a proper look around the forum!

I was first diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes in 2004 and I control my Diabetes with diet and exercise.

I work in IT Support so I spend my days telling people to turn their computers off and back on again 😉

😎
 
Fazza hi and a warm welcome to the forum
 
Welcome to the forums Fazza, a pity we can't simply reboot our bodies too eh? 🙂
 
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 🙂
 
Northerner said:
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 🙂
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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! 😱

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!
 
It can be so easy to mistake the symptoms and put them down to something mundane - I was exactly the same, putting the tiredness down to work, and the thirst down to 'relaxing' with a few pints most days then getting dehydrated and needing to drink copious amounts of water/tea/coffee the following day - thinking back it would have been obvious to someone who knew the signs if they saw my desk with all the plastic cups of water lined up all the time! Took me two years of this then I got a virus that sent my levels so high that I ended up in hospital and getting diagnosed :(

Good to hear you survived the Boil in the Bag catastrophe! 😱
 
To be honest, I hadn't really noticed any of the symptoms and it was only when the Nurse was asking me lots of questions that I kept on saying 'yes' to that I realised something was up!

When they explained what they thought it all sort of made sense. After going for a test at the hospital I was later confirmed as being Type 2 Diabetic and an appointment was made for me to see a dietician who explained about the carb intake in my meals.

I did a bit of searching on the internet, purchased a couple of books and looked up information as and when I needed it. I also joind Diabetes UK straight away and have always found the magazines they send out very useful and informative.

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HI Fazza and welcome aboard!
 
Hi Fazza - welcome to the forum and thank you for your introduction. 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum 🙂
 
Welcome to the forums Fazza 🙂
 
Hi Fazza,

A warm welcome from a freezing Birmingham. I always feel quietly confident when I hear from newbies who are managing their diabetes with limited or no medication - you on diet/exercise and another newbie who has been diagnosed type 2 for 17 years and is only on medication...

What kind of HbA1c readings have you had? Amanda xx 🙂
 
HI Fazza welcome to the forum 🙂
 
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