At least all of ya'll have somewhat normal stories to tell...mine was July 4th of this year age 21. Yeah I had all the classic signs lost a ton of weight, drinking like crazy which I never did!!! and of course practically living in the bathroom. But on July 4th...I had fallen off a horse and couldn't get off the ground at the deer lease in the middle of nowhere of course...so I got back to camp and was talking to my dad and step mom and they were helping me get out of my clothes and get clean clothes on and I kept saying I just wanted to lay down and go to sleep...so my step mom figured I had a head concussion....so of course immediately getting me in the car and getting me to the ER!!! Well of course nothing was wrong with my head....a couple of broken bones....and then the blood work after 3 times of testing came back with "Sweetie....we think you have diabetes...your blood sugar is 725!!!!" I was like wait....I came in here for possible head concussion and maybe a few broken bones!!! NOT BLOOD SUGAR PROBLEMS!!!! So I was transferred to a bigger hospital which did nothing for the diabetes and wanted me to go home after realizing they could do nothing for the pelvic fracture. So I went to the hospital in my home town where my blood sugar was in the 900s after eating at McDonalds. But I spent 5 days there just go learn the ropes!!! :)
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At least all of ya'll have somewhat normal stories to tell...mine was July 4th of this year age 21. Yeah I had all the classic signs lost a ton of weight, drinking like crazy which I never did!!! and of course practically living in the bathroom. But on July 4th...I had fallen off a horse and couldn't get off the ground at the deer lease in the middle of nowhere of course...so I got back to camp and was talking to my dad and step mom and they were helping me get out of my clothes and get clean clothes on and I kept saying I just wanted to lay down and go to sleep...so my step mom figured I had a head concussion....so of course immediately getting me in the car and getting me to the ER!!! Well of course nothing was wrong with my head....a couple of broken bones....and then the blood work after 3 times of testing came back with "Sweetie....we think you have diabetes...your blood sugar is 725!!!!" I was like wait....I came in here for possible head concussion and maybe a few broken bones!!! NOT BLOOD SUGAR PROBLEMS!!!! So I was transferred to a bigger hospital which did nothing for the diabetes and wanted me to go home after realizing they could do nothing for the pelvic fracture. So I went to the hospital in my home town where my blood sugar was in the 900s after eating at McDonalds. But I spent 5 days there just go learn the ropes!!! :)
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Got to ask, how is the pelvic fracture? That can't be fun. I've only broke a toe.
I was really sick and getting weaker and asked my dad to check my blood sugar when I came home from school one weekend. Was in patient first and then admitted to the hospital that same day! FUN!
Well Keith it was better....but I had a diabetic related seizure in WAL MART...and had a bilaterial pelvic fracture, along with a bilateral pubic fracture ALONG with a bilaterial sacreal fracture...ALONG WITH a skull fracture!!!! I was in a wheel chair for 8 weeks and got the ok to walk again last Friday!!! Which has been amazing, but frustrating with the extra exercise and the blood sugars. I was in the wheelchair from when I was diagnosed so they were pretty much stable for 3 months. But It's good. I'm supposed to take it easy so I don't fall or anything and re break something, but I'm definately taking it easy. I never want to deal with that again.
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Well Keith it was better....but I had a diabetic related seizure in WAL MART...and had a bilaterial pelvic fracture, along with a bilateral pubic fracture ALONG with a bilaterial sacreal fracture...ALONG WITH a skull fracture!!!! I was in a wheel chair for 8 weeks and got the ok to walk again last Friday!!! Which has been amazing, but frustrating with the extra exercise and the blood sugars. I was in the wheelchair from when I was diagnosed so they were pretty much stable for 3 months. But It's good. I'm supposed to take it easy so I don't fall or anything and re break something, but I'm definately taking it easy. I never want to deal with that again.
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Seizure in WALMART, how special, I think there's a reason we don't remember some stuff.LOL
WOW that must have been some fall. When can you get back on a horse?
I was diagnosed 2 months after I moved out from my parents at 22, I already had symptoms since 3 months. At first I didn't want to alert anyone because I was living on my own for the first time so... Until some weird things occure : bathroom every hour without drinking before, being unable to lift my own weight, getting tired after going upstairs (3rd floor, yeah!), thirsty as hell (6l per day), and the desperate need of sugar. I remember one night I ate a full ice cream box, after dinner. I needed sugar! And water.
When I started having troubles to express myself clearly (lack of saliva), my parents decided I had a problem :p. So I came home, did the urine test, then got back to "my" home. 3 days later my father called me "Get ready, I'll be there in 2 hours, it's an emergency, I bring you home". Huh ? The day after I met my wonderful endocrinologist. "Give me your fingers." / "oh, ok, why do you wan... outch!" / "Well, 426, lift up your shirt." / "My shirt ? what the... oh hey, what is that pen... is it a syrin..." / "There, 20 units." / "what did you just inject in my body ???" I love my endo :D
Didn't spend one day at hospital 'cause I explained I had school exams I couldn't miss... so we agreed I'd call my endo every day and my mother would have to be there for a week in case of emergency. That was fun.
Yeah I don't remember the seizure at all!!! I remember feeling just fine my BS was 218 at 12:45 (before walking into WM) and at 1:15 dropped to 13...luckily it got back to 80 when the EMS got there and then dropped again to 50 before they reached the hospital...it was really weird cause I remember being at walmart and feeling fine to waking up in the ER saying they were going to LIFE FLIGHT me to a bigger hospital!!! July was not good to me!!!
My orthopedic says I should wait till December when I go back just to make sure the x-rays still look good, but I'm as a stubborn as a horse and rode on Sunday! LOL
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Yeah I don't remember the seizure at all!!! I remember feeling just fine my BS was 218 at 12:45 (before walking into WM) and at 1:15 dropped to 13...luckily it got back to 80 when the EMS got there and then dropped again to 50 before they reached the hospital...it was really weird cause I remember being at walmart and feeling fine to waking up in the ER saying they were going to LIFE FLIGHT me to a bigger hospital!!! July was not good to me!!!
My orthopedic says I should wait till December when I go back just to make sure the x-rays still look good, but I'm as a stubborn as a horse and rode on Sunday! LOL
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You Texas cowgirls (redneck?LOL) are tuff. Been to Houston and Dallas Ft. Worth. The people were so nice!!
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I was diagnosed 2 months after I moved out from my parents at 22, I already had symptoms since 3 months. At first I didn't want to alert anyone because I was living on my own for the first time so... Until some weird things occure : bathroom every hour without drinking before, being unable to lift my own weight, getting tired after going upstairs (3rd floor, yeah!), thirsty as hell (6l per day), and the desperate need of sugar. I remember one night I ate a full ice cream box, after dinner. I needed sugar! And water.
When I started having troubles to express myself clearly (lack of saliva), my parents decided I had a problem :p. So I came home, did the urine test, then got back to "my" home. 3 days later my father called me "Get ready, I'll be there in 2 hours, it's an emergency, I bring you home". Huh ? The day after I met my wonderful endocrinologist. "Give me your fingers." / "oh, ok, why do you wan... outch!" / "Well, 426, lift up your shirt." / "My shirt ? what the... oh hey, what is that pen... is it a syrin..." / "There, 20 units." / "what did you just inject in my body ???" I love my endo :D
Didn't spend one day at hospital 'cause I explained I had school exams I couldn't miss... so we agreed I'd call my endo every day and my mother would have to be there for a week in case of emergency. That was fun.
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Nice going on your own gift.LOL Yea that first time they injected me and told me it was insulin, I thought what the ^uck, this can't be good.
NOT REDNECK....just Texas Cowgirl!!! :) Yeah I live about 50 miles west (I think) of Houston...I suck with directions!!! LOL I love it, I would be lost in the city!!! I've never left the Country. The longest I've been in Houston is the times I have been in the hospital!!! LOL
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NOT REDNECK....just Texas Cowgirl!!! :) Yeah I live about 50 miles west (I think) of Houston...I suck with directions!!! LOL I love it, I would be lost in the city!!! I've never left the Country. The longest I've been in Houston is the times I have been in the hospital!!! LOL
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OK if your not out there hunt'n them there hogs.LOL
Darn...how did you know??? Not just hogs...squirrel, deer, dove (except this year) :-(
I was a Junior in College and had been feeling great except for every couple of weeks I would get sick immediately after eating (didn't matter what I ate). Everyone kept asking me if I had lost weight. I thought, hey thanks, I haven't been trying but great! Then one Sunday, I weighed myself and did so again 1 week later and realized I lost 15lbs, which I thought was odd since I had eaten EVERYTHING in sight. Also, ate a meal and lost all of it within 5 minutes. Then I noticed the eye sight going. I wear contacts but couldn't see the road signs while driving. So I went to the infirmary on campus and they told me to come back in one hour when the doctor would be there. So I went to teach a class then came back. The doctor checked my urine and came back in and said there is no easy way to say this but I called an ambulance, you have diabetes, I'm sending you to the hospital. At this point, I am confused and then tried bargaining. The last thing I wanted to do was to get loaded into an ambulance at school. I lost the battle, BUT I did get them to let me walk out of the infirmary with one EMT person in front and behind me "in case" I went into a coma. Spent a week at the hospital - Happy Valentine's Day!
I got progressively more I'll over the summer of 2001. Not sleeping, peeing ALL THE TIME, and lost a lot of weight. Like a typical man, I ignored it until someone said I just looked really ill. So I packed myself of to the docs. They did a blood test and then rushed me into hospital. TO this day I don't know how high my sugars were!!
I was 11 when I got diagnosed... I had been drinking, peeing, and sleeping ALOT, for a month or so.
I went to an amusement park and a few hours after eating lunch it came back up (luckily in a trashcan). We went home after that and by the time we got to the house I was shivering (like I was outside in winter with no coat) and laying on the floor. I kept asking for blankets, I couldn't warm up. My mom called the Dr. and he had her push on my stomach in three different spots. When she pushed on my chest (just below my ribs) it hurt. The dr. told her to get in the car and go to the ER right now.... we got to the ER, they did my blood sugar and it was 636. I spent the next two weeks (I think) in the hospital.
This was also the year that my grandfather died, and my brother was born..... what a year!
I lost a TON of weight. And drank A LOT of water. That took place over the course of a few months. Then my mom checked the symptoms of diabetesand I matched all of them. And that all took place in the summer of 2008 and I was officially diagnosed in August.
My college tennis coach revealed to me that I had lost 35 pounds over 3 month. We called a Doctor. They ran a blood test that revealed my 511 mg/dl bloodsugar. I was diagnosed and in the hospital that afternoon.
The day after Valentine's Day, 1979. I was 7. I was standing in the lunch line at school feeling a lot more hungry than normal, but I had to wait like everyone else. Line moved slowly. I finally got to the end with my food and got my money out to pay, when *WHAM* I passed out. The lunch lady screamed apparently. Next thing I know is that the assistant princple is sitting me down at the table just talking to me, and I kept saying "I felt like I had eyes in the back of my head". Mom came and took me home with a bucket at the ready; she figured I was just sick (I, of course, had had the flu a month prior).
For the next two weeks, Mom kept saying I wasn't myself, so finally at the end of February we were in the pediatrician's office. I'm sure ytou all know the rest of the story.
At least I made a lunch lady scream, which I would judge to not be such an easy thing to do. Most lunch ladies seem pretty stable and grounded. :)
I was 9 years old and had been sick and losing weight, drinking and urinating a lot for a couple of weeks. On Christmas night, I got extremely sick- throwing up every few minutes, back hurting so much I could barely breath, etc- so my mom rushed me to the ER. I remember getting out of the car and starting to walk up the sidewalk of the hospital, and then the next thing I vaguely remember is being in a hospital bed with nurses all around me and my mom telling them my symptoms. I had lost about 23 pounds in two weeks, and as soon as they heard that symptom, they knew right away that it was T1. I was extremely dehydrated and in the hospital for a week.
Hi everyone my name is Joy! I just joined today.
I actually found out I was diabetic summer of 2001 I was 14. It was the worse day ever. I had a fever of like 103 and in it would not go away. I mean who gets a fever of 103 in the summer? I thought I had the flu or something. I went to the hospital the next morning, they took my blood and that's when I found out. I was in the hospital for over a week I believe. It was horrible.