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it makes me wonder about when i was diagnosed i felt terrible for about 3 months before i got checked and when i was diagnosed the docs said they'd never seen blood fat/sugar levels so high... could i of been close to a coma?
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Very probably. What you have to remember is that developing T1 is a gradiated (if speedy) process. Before you were dxed, you still had insulin around, which was just about staving off DKA but being less and less able to do that every day.
Apparently it is just about possible to survive without insulin under very controlled conditions - one way they used to treat diabetes prior to the discovery of insulin was by putting sufferers on a no-carb diet with loads of water. All it did though was stave things off for a bit longer - there was still the catastrophic weight loss and other symptoms - bit like putting a plaster on an amputated leg, if you like.
