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Comment by Mike Cook on June 30, 2010 at 2:24pm

so apparently i'm not just fine.. can't do math. was 15 years ago. =P

Comment by Mike Cook on June 30, 2010 at 1:58pm

we kinda' just thought i was tired.
i was nearing the end of my junior year in high school. they'll tell you that that's the most stressful year there (i'm not sure who "they" are.. but that's what they say), and i suppose it was. i was in the marching band, so i had practice before school started. also, i'm LDS so i had a church group before band. and then after school i was working at mcdonald's (i dressed up as grimace [the big, purple guy] and stood on the street corner with a sign for 29 cent hanburgers) until close to midnight - they weren't too strict on labor laws there. and then i'd wake up at 4am and do it all again.
anyways... my parents noticed i wasn't looking too well. and i sure wasn't feeling great. i couldn't recognize my dad if he got more than 10 feet away from me due to increasingly poor vision. i was sleeping through school (more than usual) and having to run to the restroom constantly. i couldn't hardly talk with my tongue as dry as it was. with all this we decided i should take a day off.
i went to church that morning and then went home to get better. to help me "get better"... and without knowing what was wrong with me... my mom gave me a box of popcicles and my dad bought a dozen donuts. so there i sat, eating donuts, sucking on popcicles, and drinking enough chocolate milk to keep me in the bathroom every few minutes.
the cool part of this all is that my dad was at work that day. while he was there with his manager and a customer he got the feeling that he needed to go home and take his boy to the hospital. on the way home it seemed some random inspiration came that i had diabetes. so off to the urgent care center we went. he told the receptionist that he was sure something was wrong with his kid and that it wasn't like all the parents that come in saying so-- something really was wrong. he told them he thought it might be diabetes. the doctor checked my blood and told my dad to get me to the hospital. we didn't have insurance at the time, but the doctor insisted on getting there immediately.
i don't remember much of the trip to the hospital. i do remember that they said my count was 768. they pumped me full of fluids and started me on insulin injections. and 17 years later i'm getting along just fine =)

Comment by Lori on June 7, 2010 at 6:17pm

I was on the Atkins Diet for about 8 months. I reached my goal weight and decided to wean myself off the diet by adding more carbs to my meals. Everything went well for about a month and then I noticed I was losing more weight. Then I began to feel fatigue and was having major mood swings. This went on for a while and then my heart starting pounding really hard. So I visited my family doctor (when I didn't have health insurance) and she just told me to lay off the caffeine. About a week went by and I was extremely tired all the time, continued losing weight, was very thirsty and couldn't hold any fluids in my system. I was actually not able to walk up the stairs in our home by this time. I was so disoriented that I really didn't know what was going on. Thought I had some strange flu bug or something, well that is what I told myself because I was refusing to go to the ER without health insurance.

Luckily my boyfriend insisted I go, but he had to carry me to the car because I simply didn't have any strength anymore.

The ER doctor ran some tests and then came back and asked me how long I have been a diabetic, I thought he was in the wrong room! He said no, I have the right patient, your blood sugar is 653 and I was DKA.

I was admitted into intensive care for that day and overnight, then went to a regular room for 2 more nights. Then was referred to an endo who ran more tests to confirm that I was indeed a Type 1. Was diagnosed at age 33.

Comment by Mahagony Jones on April 23, 2010 at 12:43pm

I went on vacation with my family and could not read any of the road signs due to blurred vision (I wasn't the one driving). I could not satisfy my thirst and was peeing literally every hour. I had not slept in about 2 weeks. I had bloodwork upon my return home. My BS was about 385. My A1C was 9.2 and I was in DKA. I was hospitalized for about 4 days. It was about 2 weeks from when symptoms first began that I was diagnosed with Type 1 at age 31.

Comment by LauraCBower on February 27, 2010 at 7:39am

I have WebMD to thank. After months of fatigue and secret snacking to satisfy my strange sugar cravings, I started entering my symptoms in different combos. Every combo came back diabetes, and I knew my Grandma was a T1. I went into student health as a slim (5K runner at the time) 25 year old and announced to the nurse I thought I had diabetes and asked for a bg test. She looked at me like I was out of my mind, but the test was cheap. My bg was too high for student health to measure.

As an adult with T1 I had to beg for speedy appts and prescriptions because usually adults have T2. But I had large ketones, the situation was urgent.

In the US health care system, my story teaches you the importance of sticking to your guns and standing up for yourself despite skeptical health care pros. Yes I have diabetes, I know I sound like an adult on the phone but trust me, it's T1, give me an appt today not 2 months from now.

Comment by Denise Suzanne Grant on December 26, 2009 at 1:59pm

I didn't have a clue!

I was diagnosed in November 2007 quite by accident.. I wasn't feeling ill.. had no outward symptoms, just no clues at all.

I had just moved home and was registering with a new doctor.. in the UK you have to have a new patient medical, which usually goes by very easily.. answer a few questions, give a urine sample and have breast examination.. nothing too bad.

The nurse tested the sample of my urine and said that I was a little high on the sugar side.. asked if I'd been feeling ill and listed the symptoms of diabetes to which I answered "NO!" to all.. but she said to be on the safe side she would get my blood checked for sugar.

I was a bit confused when she added she thought I might have diabetes because I'm really slim, have loads of energy, slept around only 4 hours a night and only had one other illness Thyroid Desease, which I'd had for over 10 years previous! (Another mystery because it was Hypo Thyroidism.. yet my weight was normal!)

My blood test came back that I had extremely high sugar content.. 19.5 on the Brittish scale (not sure what the conversion is but I imagine around 500!).

So that was my introduction to diabetes.. The doctor diagnosed it as type 2 and put me onto quite a low dose of metformin. He said he thought because I was symptomless other than blood and urine sugar, they had caught it early..

No one else in my family has Diabetes or Thyroid desease.. I'm of normal weight and the diagnosis has always confused me.. I went along with the doctor, but was never really convinced I had Type 2 diabetes.

Today only just over two years later, I still don't have any other symptoms but I am struggling with my high blood sugar, and now believe that I have type 1.5 (LADA).

I'm going to need to swap my pills for insulin and hopefully I can get a handle on this thing.

My motto is.. do lots of research.. know what to believe and what not to believe.. go with the flow when you know it's right.. but trust your instincts when to say NO! My doctor here in the USA wants to put me onto Statins, which I refuse to take because I read my lab results and know that I'm within the required range where I don't need to take statins. When I questioned why when my cholesterol levels are within range did I need to take Statins, she told me that they like all their diabetics to take them.. well I'm sorry that's not a good reason to take them in my oppinion.

Above all.. Be proactive.. don't just do things because your doctor tells you, you should on ths spot.. read your lab results, if you have problems understanding them, get help from someone else.. ask questions and do lots of research into your condition and the medications they want to give you. If they can wait a few days while you find out for yourself if their form of medication is good for you then go along with it.. if not, don't be afraid to say NO. It's your body.. take care of it.

Lol.. time to get off the soap box! x

Comment by Erin Ball on October 30, 2009 at 7:57pm

well i was acting funny 4 weeks but when i went to the most cmpetitive softball tryouts of my life my moth was so dry and i wanted water so bad that i almost barfed later that week i found out i didn't make the team and tested my sugar on mt moms coworkres bgtester and it said error the dirsctions said that if it said error that meant itwent of the limited highest blood glucose which is 599 i went to childrens hospitol of wi and got diagnosed that night my sugar was over 700 that day and i felt terible
now im great and i am 2 monthes with D !!!

Comment by Joanne on July 28, 2009 at 8:52pm

Found out after having radioactive iodine treatments to shrink a thyroid tumor. It threw my sugars out of whack and after 3 months of elevated BG I was diagnosed with Diabetes.

Comment by Shirin on July 20, 2009 at 8:10am

How I found out:
I was 28 weeks pregnant. Belly growing very fast, up 2-3 times per night peeing, suffering from quite severe constipation, drinking alot of juice!!
Caught an upper airway infection, probably viral and at the same time a vaginal thrush. Brought a urine sample to the doctor and it was ++++ for sugars. Next day my fasting morning blood sugar was above 10. I was lucky to se an endocrinologist the very same day, he said he did not think it was purely gestational diabetes, as I was skinny apart from a big belly/pregnancy....My blood sugar was 18 three hours after eating half a carrot that evening and one day after I startet insulin shots.

Comment by derry on July 16, 2009 at 1:40pm

I was 3 when i found out it was over 30years ago so almost from birth my dad is also diabetic and my brother so you can say its really in my famliy gene when i was 3 my mom said i was thirsty all the time and also going to the bathroom alot night and day!

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