How long has everyone been a diabetic?

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How long has everyone been a diabetic?
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Mon, 10-29-2007 - 4:45am
Have been a type two diabetic for three years. I am new to the diabetes board. My name is Christina. I have not been put in the hospital yet for my diabetes. Also what was your reaction when they told you where a diabetic? My reaction I was in shock and really upset with this. But I have gotten use to it now.

 



Edited 11/6/2007 3:17 pm ET by nikki_lav_2288


Edited 11/13/2007 9:19 pm ET by nikki_lav_2288

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Mon, 10-29-2007 - 7:39am

Hi Nikki!


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Mon, 10-29-2007 - 11:52pm

I do not have any diabetes in my family. I think I got from taking Zyprexa for a month or two. Before I started taking the Zyprexa I had no type two diabetes. I was very healthy just over weight. I am going through a lawsuit against the medicine. It causes diabetes and even death. I am upset that a medicine did this to me. I know in my heart and soul the Zyprexa caused my Type Two Diabetes. I even have my medical records showing my blood sugar was in the normal range. It so annoying cause everyone I tell I have diabetes thinks cause I am over weight thats why have Type two diabetes. You can be skinny have diabetes too.


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Christina

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Tue, 10-30-2007 - 11:34am

I was diagnosed late Jan/early Feb this year (2007). My endocrinologist who I've been seeing for several years for hypothyroid added a fasting serum glucose to the rest of my usual annual lab work just because I was over 45 and overweight. Good catch on her part. I was pretty stunned right at first - I figured the first test might be off because I was just getting over a bout with pneumonia and had been drinking an herbal tea to ease the coughing - the tea contained licorice, among other things, and licorice is known to raise blood sugar levels (it's used as a sweetener so that makes sense). So, the dr ordered a second blood test to confirm the diagnosis. In between the two tests, I tracked down all the info I could on type 2 diabetes and started adjusting my diet accordingly - I figured if it came out that I wasn't diabetic on the second test, I'd simply have lost weight and started eating better which is always a good thing. And, if it came out to confirm the diagnosis, I'd already be on my way and I'd have already thought out questions to ask the dr at the next appointment. Either way, good for me. It was confirmed (barely - if I remember correctly, the threshhold for a dx is something like 126 and the second test was somewhere around 130 so it was close but definite).

I determined right off that I would "have" this, it wouldn't "have" me so I've been working pretty aggressively to get moving more, get a handle on what the best choices as far as food are for me, and so on.

--Deb

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Wed, 10-31-2007 - 10:41am

1999, Type 2, Still going at 76.

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Sat, 11-03-2007 - 11:43am

hi nikki


I been type 1 diabetic for 6 months and I hate it .. LOLOL

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Sat, 11-03-2007 - 11:03pm
Thanks for all of you answering my question.

Christina

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Sat, 11-03-2007 - 11:50pm

Christina,


I have been diabetic for 17 years and I was totally surprised as I never expected to be a third generation diabetic. At the same time I was relieved because I finally knew why I was feeling so awful. It was predicted when I was first diagnosed that I would need insulin to control it. I wish I knew what my A1C was at that time but it wasn't common to perform the test then. I was diagnosed under the old systen when your fasting blod sugar had to be more than 140. So I was probably diabetic for quite a while before I was diagnosed. In fact I know that my blood sugar was above 120 because I had surgery twice before diagnosis and both times it was above 120.


I have never been in the hospital for my diabetes and my husband who has been diabtetic much longer than me has been in the hospital only once and that was 2 1\2 weeks ago. So I would expect that you wouldn't need to be hospitalized for diabetes either because most of us never need that.



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Tue, 11-06-2007 - 5:19am
Well I am happy to tell you all

Christina

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Tue, 11-13-2007 - 8:51am

Hi Nikki,


I have been a type 1 diabetic for over 25 years now and have 5 insulin injections a day. Can't say I'm thrilled with this but so far I have never been admitted to hospital for diabetes or anything related to diabetes. I also have fairly bad asthma and have to monitor that from time to time. Again..... a nuisance. Unfortunately I also have had multiple sclerosis for the last 20 years and that has left me confined to a wheelchair and has been much more of a challenge than either of the asthma or diabetes. I just look at all the things

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