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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 436967" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Well it wasn't any great fun for me.....lol. Six years of symptoms that I went to specialists, doctors, diets, and helk......and was told by one diabetes specialist (now SHE is a specialist in diabetes and NEVER ran any test on me FOR diabetes so you can imagine that I will NEVER EVER RECOMMEND HER FOR AS MUCH AS A TONGUE DEPRESSOR) told me - "Well I think you are just cheating on your diet." Nope - I did exactly the diet she told me to do </p><p>"E diets" and gained 22 lbs. </p><p></p><p>There is a whole list of symptoms for pre-diabetics but the typical ones for me were: Mid-drift pear shaped weight gain, loss of hair on my head, gain of hair on my face, rosacea on cheeks, water weight gain on ankles and feet, no energy whatsoever, mood changes, tired all the time, period changes that would rival the worst periods of your life to the point where I considered oophorectomy and hystrectomy, irritability and mood swings worse than PMDD, memory loss, scattered thinking, and a bunch of other odd things - but overall? That was it. I had ZERO and less than zero energy. I was irritable like I could just kill someone and my mood swings were HORRID. I forgot my NAME, address, where I lived....(no kidding). I would cry in the DOG food aisle, and then ten minutes later want to kill someone for scuffing their shoes. I had 14 inch ankles, I was gaining about a size every other month - I was almost 300 lbs and going into a size 24. All my life I've been about a 9-10. After I adjusted my diet? Got on the right medication? I'm back to a size 7-8, in a way better mood, periods are like - meah...hair is not coming back but I'm not looking at 5 oclock shadow any more either and I've dropped 2 shoe sizes. From a 10.5 to an 8.5 ---Insulin, pancreas, liver----all that were my problem and I was told so many different things in six years - I literally began to plan a funeral. I was tested for brain tumors TWICE ---scleroderma, lupus is still on the table but I'm thinking - no, I do have anemia - bad anemia but it's genetic type, and I mean the junk they put me through was ridiculous. All of this could have been avoided YEARS ago with a glucose tolerance test - and a simple test for diabetes. That A1n or a1, an1 test. UGH - I'm still a little fuzzy on days. lol. But as long as my level stays below 5.9? I don't have to worry. And as long as my finger pricks stay below or around 100 every day? I'm good. In the 80's woulld be fantastic but I doubt it will ever be, and I usually cruise up to 120 and flux. When I started? I was in the 600's.....No WONDER I couldn't think. With fasting I went down to 299. So yeah - you may or may not be....and just because you are thin doesn't mean you aren't diabetic. So best to be tested. </p><p></p><p>Stuff happens as we get older......just the way of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 436967, member: 4964"] Well it wasn't any great fun for me.....lol. Six years of symptoms that I went to specialists, doctors, diets, and helk......and was told by one diabetes specialist (now SHE is a specialist in diabetes and NEVER ran any test on me FOR diabetes so you can imagine that I will NEVER EVER RECOMMEND HER FOR AS MUCH AS A TONGUE DEPRESSOR) told me - "Well I think you are just cheating on your diet." Nope - I did exactly the diet she told me to do "E diets" and gained 22 lbs. There is a whole list of symptoms for pre-diabetics but the typical ones for me were: Mid-drift pear shaped weight gain, loss of hair on my head, gain of hair on my face, rosacea on cheeks, water weight gain on ankles and feet, no energy whatsoever, mood changes, tired all the time, period changes that would rival the worst periods of your life to the point where I considered oophorectomy and hystrectomy, irritability and mood swings worse than PMDD, memory loss, scattered thinking, and a bunch of other odd things - but overall? That was it. I had ZERO and less than zero energy. I was irritable like I could just kill someone and my mood swings were HORRID. I forgot my NAME, address, where I lived....(no kidding). I would cry in the DOG food aisle, and then ten minutes later want to kill someone for scuffing their shoes. I had 14 inch ankles, I was gaining about a size every other month - I was almost 300 lbs and going into a size 24. All my life I've been about a 9-10. After I adjusted my diet? Got on the right medication? I'm back to a size 7-8, in a way better mood, periods are like - meah...hair is not coming back but I'm not looking at 5 oclock shadow any more either and I've dropped 2 shoe sizes. From a 10.5 to an 8.5 ---Insulin, pancreas, liver----all that were my problem and I was told so many different things in six years - I literally began to plan a funeral. I was tested for brain tumors TWICE ---scleroderma, lupus is still on the table but I'm thinking - no, I do have anemia - bad anemia but it's genetic type, and I mean the junk they put me through was ridiculous. All of this could have been avoided YEARS ago with a glucose tolerance test - and a simple test for diabetes. That A1n or a1, an1 test. UGH - I'm still a little fuzzy on days. lol. But as long as my level stays below 5.9? I don't have to worry. And as long as my finger pricks stay below or around 100 every day? I'm good. In the 80's woulld be fantastic but I doubt it will ever be, and I usually cruise up to 120 and flux. When I started? I was in the 600's.....No WONDER I couldn't think. With fasting I went down to 299. So yeah - you may or may not be....and just because you are thin doesn't mean you aren't diabetic. So best to be tested. Stuff happens as we get older......just the way of it. [/QUOTE]
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