I am a 28 year old, type 1 diabetic that was diagnosed 7/11/09. I have a great wife and 18mo. old daughter. I felt very loopy and flu-like that day (and a couple days before) when I went to the UrgentCare. I’ll never forget the doc saying "There’s no easy way to tell you this, but you’re diabetic and in DKA. I can’t release you to your wife, I must call an ambulance." Scary. My sugar was 375 and ketones were 1000+. I knew something was going on for a while, but didn’t know what. After 3 days in the hospital, I was sent home on insulin.
Now December, I am on a Minimed 722 with CGMS and love it. I use Novolog in the pump with no other meds. I was never given the chance for pills. In September my A1c was 6.9. I didn’t see the rest of the labs (peptide, etc.). I have been working closely with a great team of doctors medtronic trainers, diabetes educators and feel very positive about where I should be with control by summer.
It’s frustrating sometimes as I think scientifically and can’t get things under control as fast as I would like. However, I know that I can do it eventually and I have made healthy lifestyle changes due to the diagnosis (ones I needed to make anyway), so that is encouraging. I am down from 280lbs. to 220lbs., but the doc say that no matter how much weight I loose, I probably will be on insulin for life. I’m exercising more than I used to but am still having spikes and lows, which I’ll post about in other threads. I guess it took a while to get this way and you can’t fix it overnight, right?
Thanks for listening and for sharing your knowledge!! I look forward to see you all in the threads!