i dont think a lot of people understand the severity of Type One Diabetes so here have my diagnosis story
few things you need to know first:
i was the worst diabetic they had seen for a while (referring to diagnosis)
this is definitely not all of it as i was half dead and barely remember what was happening
in the run up to actually going to hospital i could barely eat bc everything tasted horrible. i was drinking all the time, shouting at everyone. i know some people throw up a lot and get sick a lot right before diagnosis, but i didnt so there was no way for anyone to realise what was happening.
the night that i went in to hospital i could barely stand, i had no energy and i could barely breathe. we called 111 (the NHS advice hotline - pls bear in mind these people aren’t medically trained). we called them and i managed to say i couldnt breathe and she told us to go to a&e because it couldve been my asthma - pls bear in mind i havent had an attack since i was like 7.
we got there and i remember literally nothing from this point on until i was rushed into the resuscitation room - the place where they take car crash patients and people who are actually going to die.
this is the fun part where if youve read this far you will understand the severity of it.
i was in severe diabetic ketoacidosis. my blood sugars were around 67 (this is 1206 for people who use ml/dl) and i think they said my ketones were crazy high around 20. the high ketones caused mostly all veins to collapse, they had to take blood from my femoral artery and even then my blood kept clotting. my kidneys had also stopped working. i was on nil-by-mouth for ages but i was hella thirsty.
according to someone i smelt like a dead person, so that was fun.
the doctors were really unsure if i would survive the weekend, but i did and im still alive.
so basically, t1d is not ‘u ate too much sugar’, ‘u were really fat’, ‘u dont exercise enough’ its actually just the immune system freaking out and killing useful cells.
also i was 30kg when i was diagnosed so i definitely didnt get it from being too fat
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