How did you find out you had Type 2?
I'm just curious to hear how others were diagnosed with Type 2. I think this disease got about a two- to five-year head start on me because I didn't recognize the symptoms. Mine was caught in my second pregnancy (I found out only after demanding to see my chart that I had it then too).
Was anyone diagnosed after pregnancy? Routine physical? Did you have symptoms?
Was anyone diagnosed after pregnancy? Routine physical? Did you have symptoms?
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Permalink Reply by Rachael on -
I bought a meter because my son has bad insurance and his doctor wanted to test him for diabetes. Rather than pay hundreds of dollars for lab works I bought the meter and took several readings fasting and did a home glucose tolerance test. My son was fine (and my mom, and my husband, the meter was fun!) But I was having fasting numbers in the 120s and PP readings around 160-180. Not horrible, but not great either. I followed the advice on Diabetes 101 to get nearer to normal, but kept having high morning numbers, so I went to a GP and since my insulin was so high she put me on Metformin and voila. I am still figuring it all out, I am eating very low carb, I take some supplements, I take the metformin, and I have increased my exercise. Hoping to lose weight, but haven't lost much yet.
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Permalink Reply by Debbie Maddox on -
Was in an ER check up. I was not feeling to well, hurt all over and wanted to know why. They told me my BS were super high kept me in the hospital for 5 hrs. BP was very high also.This was in March of 1999. I was 53. Still trying to get things under control...
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Permalink Reply by BinkyJ45 on -
Regular routine physical. The Dr. had been checking for several years since I have a family history as well as several risk factors. I knew something wasn't right about 8 months before I was diagnosed but didn't know the symptoms. I was lucky that I was probably diagnosed pretty close to when I first became diabetic, and didn't go through the several years of not being diagnosed.
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Permalink Reply by s6954118 on -
I went to my GP for something else and he took blood my BG was 306 - A1C 6.9 (highest I have ever been). I had been working with a Urologist and had my prostate scraped but was going to the bathroom 3 or 4 times a night, my feet feel like they are on fire all the time but I don't like going to doctors so I ignored most of the symptoms.
i had just finished a bout with my asthma and a round of predinzone and my ENDO thinks that is what pushed me over.
I do no/low carbs and I am on Lantus and Novolog and Glimipiride
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Permalink Reply by Ronnie Gregory M on -
passed out at work woke up a few days later in a hospital bed with a brand spanking new diabetes diagnosis. Did not have the symptoms though but a few hours before my collapse I had severe thirst and I kept drinking soda instead of water, maybe that's why I collapsed but other than that no symptoms at all or maybe I just ignored them I cant recall that far back
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Permalink Reply by RAYT721 on -
I transferred to a new doctor closer to home and he did a fasting glucose test on that Saturday. On Tuesday I received a phone call around 6:00 pm after work while trying to catch a quick nap. "I am a WHATabetic?" ... I had no clue because I had none of the traditional risk factors. Ok, so maybe ten - fifteen pounds overweight but no family history, not the thick waist over 40", (as a man) never been pregnant, etc. But, yup, I was/am diabetic. The doctor wanted me to work on diet & exercise before discussing meds. I have lost 23 pounds. My last and only a1c is 6.4. The first three things that I did was (a) buy a meter; (b) work on diet/exercise; and (c) find website support from sites like this. Of course I will tell you that my first attempt to do a glucose test at home looked like a scene from a horror film but I eventually got the hang of it. I'm no longer a WHATabetic... I am a PWD... person with determination!!!
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Permalink Reply by Amy Cox Clouse on -
I was put on penicillin and a Medrol dose pack for a sinus infection and developed Stevens-Johnsons Syndrome. I was then given 40 mg of prednisone for 5 days, which didn't help, then 60 for 6 days which did, but sent by bg up to around 500. I tapered down as quickly as possible, but remain diabetic three months later. I did have problems with being hypo frequently before, so I'm sure it would have happened eventually. I'm trying to be thankful that I'm aware of it at a point in my life when I only need to lose 20-30 lbs! It could be worse. Today I'm able to say that. Not every day, though ;)
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Permalink Reply by Cathy Jacobson on
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I had gestational diabetes during my second preg. about 24 years ago. The docs said to watch my bg's after I delivered because it wasn't unusual to see women develop type II diabetes later. And sure enough during a physical, the tests came back elevated, and we were off to the diabetes race. That was 11 years ago.
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Permalink Reply by xring on -
I had two symptoms that were difficult to recognize as diabetes; and one that was easy to recognize.
Since I've always had a dry mouth problem, I didn't think excessive thirst was unusual. Since I'm 58, I didn't consider a trip to the bathroom in the middle of the night unusual either. Same with feeling tired, I figured that's what happens when ya get old.
When I started losing weight without trying, I sort of had a hint, but because of a lifelong weight problem, I considered it a blessing & didn't want to spoil it. When I'd lost 22 lbs, I had my sister test me with her meter - which read 491.
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Permalink Reply by Veronica Peak Seaman on -
I was going in for minor surgery 4 yrs. ago when they told me I had to wait because I had diabetes. I too think I had it for awhile without reading the symptoms-extreme fatique and sweating. I should have known since both of my parents had diabetes, but you know how one will put their head in the ground and not see anything.
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Permalink Reply by Carm on -
I have to jump back to two years before diagnosis. I was half of a truck driving team. My husband was having to cover more and more of my driving shifts... I, an insomniac could not stay awake to drive my complete shifts... I nearly drove off the road on three occasions. I felt I was getting more and more unhealthy and we decided I needed to quit driving and stay home to take better care of myself. Now,I began to notice that whenever I worked at my computer, my right lens of my glasses seemed to have smudges. I cleaned and cleaned. Months later at my daughters for a celebration she mentioned that she needed to eat and mentioned how many hours it had been since she ate last. Something clicked. I would be perfect fasting time limit and I asked did she have her meter from her gestational diabetes days. She dug it out of a box, strips months old, but we used it. Yep... fasting number 145.
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Permalink Reply by Anthony Holko on
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My wife diagnosed it said you are going to the washroom much too often.
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