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January 23, 2006

Hi,

I'm 41 years old and was diagnosed in December with type 2 diabetes. It

wasn't a huge surprise, since I had gestational diabetes in my last

pregnancy and my mom has type 2. However, I'm not happy with the time it

took to get a diagnosis.

I started going to my internist in September of 2002 because I was so

exhausted I could barely function. He ran some blood tests, and found my

ALT was high. The first question he asked was " Do you do intravenous

drugs? " Oh, yeah, I do heroin every day. Anyway, instead of finding out WHY

this test kept coming back high, he kept saying, " Don't drink any alcohol

and come back next month " and re-running the same test. I wasn't feeling

any better and started to suspect a thyroid problem, even though these

tests always came back normal. Finally I went to an endocrinologist. When

my internist refused to give the endo his notes, I dropped the internist

and made the endo my primary care physician. The thyroid tests came back

fine, but he sent me for a 3 hour GTT. This was August of 2005. I waited

and waited to hear from them, but never did, so assumed everything was

fine. In September, I noticed I was unusually thirsty. I started carrying

bottles of water everywhere. I lost 14 pounds in less than 3 months,

without really trying. I was still having what I thought were thyroid

issues (dry skin, exhaustion). I started connecting the dots and bought a

cheap glucose meter. My fasting sugars were between 280 and 300!

Anyway, it turns out the lab never sent the results for the GTT, which

is why I never heard from them. Earlier this month, I was put on 25 units

of lantus. Since then, it's been upped to 35 units, with the addition of 8

units of humalog three times a day. My fasting blood sugar this morning was

134.

Way more than you probably wanted to know, but there's my introduction.

Oh yeah, and I live in snowy New York with my dh, two kids, three cats,

and a leopard gecko.

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Mommy to (3/6/93) and

Bridget Kerrianne (10/4/97)

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Fight your fights, find the grace in all the things that you can't change

And help somebody if you can

And get right with the Man

==Van Zant

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