Why did I leave it so long?

[Jumbly]

After over 18 months of ignoring all the symptoms, I've been on metformin (plus a couple of other things!) for a week and a half... and for just over a week, I've slept through every night. All those 18+ months I was up 4, 5, 6 or more times a night to have a wee.

Also, in the last week I've caught up on over 3 months of small jobs at work that needed doing, that just seemed like too much at the time.

I never realised how much the sleep deprivation was dominating my life, and how much of my time was spent with just trying to control, and hide, how much I was drinking and going to the toilet.

It's only now that I'm dealing with it that I realise how wasted all that time was. And, to be honest, if I'd not been nagged by a woman I'd probably still be hiding and avoiding it.

What a wasted 18 months that was!

Even at my lowest point (having wet myself in the car because I could no longer hold it in), I did nothing - how stupid was that?

We live and learn

 

[Copepod]

Great to hear that diagnosis and proper treatment (what you're doing is as important as getting the right prescription!) has brought you proper sleep, as well as generally improving feeling of well being 🙂

Sleep makes such a difference to life!

 

[novorapidboi26]

Thanks for sharing...........

I can sympathize with you on the bladder front, the pain of holding it in was so bad, especially on long bus journeys, lets just sat a 2 litre plastic bottle came in very handy..........😱

All sweet now though.............

 

[Tina63]

Don't spend too much time looking back, just be pleased you have now dealt with the problem and life is so much sweeter! Just think how much you could achieve in the next 3 months - and if you run out of 'little jobs', I'm sure I could find you plenty!