[Hopenopus]

When you found out that you have diabetes did you know it was coming? I had no idea. It was in my family and I did'nt know. Heck, I was married for 10 years before I learned that my wife had it. What she has is not anything like what I have. She might check her BG a couple times a year. I went from not knowing to 100 units of insulin in a very short time. I had no idea. Hopenopus

[soso]

I was pretty shocked..... though I knew something was wrong I didn't seem to have the textbook thirst thing so bad..

[alicat61]

Hi,
I was diagnosed at 21 and sort of knew.(guess I was in denial) At 18 I was told I would probally end up with diabetes by my 30's. Pre diabetes wasn't heard about in those days.
It was a huge shock and 26 years ago you went straight to Hospital (9 days to be excact)
I had no close family history of Diabetes, Lucky me

[grace girl]

I was 32 at dx...had NO clue and was totally and utterly shocked when I found out. I had so many "valid" reasons for all of my symptoms.

[jacobsam622]

I lost about 45# In 5 month period, could down a 24oz diet coke in about two gulps and still be thirsty. I could not sit through a 1 hour show without having to urinate. Every time I ate something with carbs I would start to fall a sleep. It would have been nice if had found the secret to losing weight. A friend ask me how I was losing all the weight and I told him either I found the secret to weight loss or I had Diabetes, that was a month before I was diagnosed. So yeah I knew and I thought everybody knew the symptoms of diabetes. I was shocked when I started posting here and found out so many people never saw it coming. Are you kidding me I was mad as #@$@ when I was diagnosed but not because I had diabetes I new that but because now I had to take medicine to correct it. If I had Just two more months I would have been back down to the pre-diabetes weight. This disease made me gain weight then took all the weight a way
then modern medicine made me gain it back. Unfortunately I know to within a month of when the pre-diabetes turned to diabetes.

[teleman]

My father was diabetic and constantly monitored my siblings for symptoms. I knew what they were and experienced all of them and more. And I stayed in denial until I was in serious condition.
I was in High School and knew every drinking fountain in the school as well as every washroom. I dropped 25 Kg. I slept through my classes.
The school nurse accused me of being drunk at school because she smelled alcohol on my breath(keto-halitosis).
I finally called the Dr. and said I had Diabetes and was resigned to facing my needle phobia.

[ange]

I had no idea, my family was pretty shocked as i was 7. But I do remember i got really thin very quickly.

[ant hill]

I was diagnosed in '71 and just before then I was in ballet and everyone was comenting on my diet as I tell them what diet. So as I was filling my water bottle about 3 times at each session and so something was up to no good. Anyway meny doctors later I was soooo thin, I looked like death warmed up. and then found my self in hospital and stacked on the weight.

Back at the Barre and my ballet misstress was not happy as I have to work off the weight that I have stacked on.

[Stuboy]

i looked up my symptoms when they got really bad and diabetes came up left right and center. When i told my mum about my symptoms as well she immediatly said i could have diabetes.

So when i went into the clinic i said i thought i might be diabetic... and looking like i did (very ill, thin and pale) they tested me almost straight away... 5 minutes later i was on a drop of some sort then spent the next three days in hospital.

So i did know. so i wasn't shocked... but it was still quite upsetting the first hour or so of realisation.

[kgm0612]

I was 40 when I was dx'd with type 1 and having a younger brother with the disease, you would have thought I would have recognized the symptoms.........but I didn't. I didn't realize there were other symptoms other than urinating & being thirsty all the time.

For at least 5 years prior to being dx'd, I experienced changes in vision, shakiness & mood swings, constant yeast infections. Two months before the diagnosis, I was exhausted to the point where all I wanted to do was sleep, I had lost quite a bit of weight and was starting to urinate more often than I had been.

Karen

[Subby]

Something was up with me for about a year... geting vague, cloudy headed, moody, less concentration, slowly losing weight. Unfortunately it was at a time when changes are occuring anyway (15 years old) so it went undetected fror quite some time. Also I had gone through quite a trauma, the symptoms seemed to be probably more a stress reaction. (And the type 1 iteslf was quite possibly an auto-immune stress reaction).

When the thirst and sugar-addiction really kicked in on holiday, my parents suspected it and it wasn't a suprise when the GP diagnosed it when we returned.

[Scratch]

My onset was fairly rapid after I had turned 15. I even rather knew it was probably diabetes because I had read The Great Brain books when I was younger and if anyone else here has read those, you likely remember the chapter about the young kid whose family steals the rocking horse from the family of the title character because they wanted to give their child who had been diagnosed with diabetes a last gift as the child's diagnosis was at a time when such a diagnosis was a death sentence.

Of course I knew such a diagnosis wasn't a death sentence, but I can't say I was looking forward to the whole idea of it, so until I got taken to the doctor and he made the diagnosis, I kind of kept in denial about it.

[notme]

Put me down as one of the clueless. My slide into diabetes was fast. I noticed vision problems and had weight loss of thirty pounds in a bout a months time. Extreme thirst and flu-like symptoms sent me to my doctor. I was hospitalized for a week and was introduced to my new life of insulin and food changes.

[UpNorth]

I was feeling rather ****ty for about a month before my diagnose. Just an "off" feeling and more tiredness than usual. Then about a couple of weeks before my diagnose i got all the classics, but since i had been like that several times before, it took me some days more before i finally went to have it checked. I did know i was experiencing diabetes symtoms though... So yeah, i sort of knew, but thought it would go away again like it had done before when i had felt the same way... But that time in 2004, it only got worse and worse and didn't go away after a few days. I was diagnosed T1 just days before my 19th birthday I'm the only T1 in the family, and we don't really know what might have caused it in my case... Can't really find a link to an earlier infection or stress

[viranth]

I had no idea. Looking back though, I had to urinate a lot, was above normal thirsty and went about with high blood sugar (which I now know how feels like).

Very glad now though, I have embraced my diabetes, and we're pretty good buds so far.