In October 2011 I noticed that I was loosing weight, and thought woo hoo!! this is good news on the filp side I did also notice that I was eating more than I could possible use and I was still loosing weight. My wife was pointing out that I was feeling a bit off as well, so one Friday I booked a appointment with the GP on the next Tuesday.
One of my strong memories from this weekend was that we drove 2 hrs to stay with my mum overnight, on the car trip down I needed to go but could not stop drinking, so before we arrived my back teeth were swimming and getting worse by the minute, and the response I get from my wife, concern, NO, support, NO, Laughter, YES.
On the Tuesday I got a call delaying the appointment to the Thursday, thats ok I though it is nothing serious, Thursday comes around and off to the doctor I go. I walk in sit down explain what is going on, he gets me to go to the nurse to check my BG levels. Once done I go back into his room, he sits me down and tells me that I lucky to be not going to hospital then and there, and that it looks like I have diabetes. Whew what a relief.. Relief you say, how can diabetes be a relief, well the diagnosis that I was expecting was Thyroid cancer, and diabetes seemed to be the lesser of the 2 evils and I still feel that way.
Over night I used the BG monitor that my wife had got for her gestational diabetes, readings in high teens to off the meter. that freaked me out a little bit.
The next day I toddled of to the specialist clinic, I was seen by a registrar, once she had taken my history
she went to see her supervisor, About 5 minutes later she walked back in and asked my to go the other room, where I was given a brief introduction (ie sugar does this, insulin does that, here is where you stick the needles, Grey one once a day blue one at meals, be careful of exercise and Alcohol = BAD)
The best thing was, I was given control, and permission to change my dosing until I found something that worked and since then I have not looked back, My initial post diagnosis HbA1c was 10.3, however since that I have not had one above 6.
I think the hardest thing in the adjustment phase was altering my wife's understanding of what diabetes management looks like. She just could not wrap her head around the fact that we did not have to substantially change our diet to get things under control, that really it was up to me to get things right carbs in = insulin, excercise = - insulin etc. I think she some times really struggles with this but over all we have found a way to make it all work.
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