The diagnoses...

8/24/2007

Whoa! What a week. I'm a wreck. I just moved here to Lubbock. I started my new job on Monday. I finally got in touch with the doctors office back in Fort Worth on Monday. They told me that my blood sugar was 550 and that I needed to go to the ER or a Dr.'s office asap. I just moved here so I didn't really know what to do. I just called my insurance and found a family doctor to go to. BIG MISTAKE! I told my boss that I was not feeling well. (real nice to call in sick on your first day of work!) I didn't want to clue them in on all the details right away. I went to the Dr's office. I had my Fort Worth Dr. fax over my test results. The Lubbock Dr. checked my fasting blood glucose, it was 450. They did an A1c and it was 8.1%. An A1c is a test that tells you your average blood sugar over the past 90 days. Normal is under 6%. They immiediatly put me on an IV drip to hydrate me. The freakin nurse missed my vein and was pumping fluid into my arm. My bicep was swollen and crunchy for days! By the way, I have veins that are a nurses dream, nice and big! How the hell did she miss????

I was at the doctors office for hours when they finally told me that I have Type 2 diabetes. By the way, if you don't know me, I'm 25 years old, I'm 120 lbs, I exercise daily and eat pretty healthy. Anyway, they gave me a glucometer and metformin. They told me to check my blood sugar NO MORE THAN 3 times per day and take the metformin. Metformin is a pill for Type 2 diabetics. They said they were going to try to get me into Dr.Lum, a very good Endocrinologist. They were waiting to hear back from them. So I was sent on my way.

The rest of the day Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, every reading was over 400. A normal reading is 80-120. The Metformin was making me so sick. My blood sugar was not coming down. Thankfully my aunt and future sister-in-law are both Diabetic Educators. I was on the phone with both of them constantly for those 3 days. They both urged me to go to the ER. It was ludicrous that they diagnosed me as Type 2. At this point my keytones are through the roof.

I called the Dr. office to tell them that my readings were not coming down and that I had large keytones. They told me to just keep taking the metformin, eat regularly and DO NOT CHECK MORE THAN 3 TIMES PER DAY. At this point I was getting very frusterated. My aunt is telling me to go to the Emergency room and this idiot at the Dr's office is telling me to just eat whatever I want and take the Metformin. 3 days later and they still did not hear back from the Endocrinologist. I asked the nurse on the phone," How do you know that I am Type 2 and not Type 1?" she replied, "Because that is what your chart says." WOW! We exchanged words and the bi*&# hung up on me! At this point I was hystarical. This conversation went on while I was at work. My third day at my new job and I was in my office balling my eyes out.

So at this point I took things into my own hands. I called the Endo myself. I explained to the lady on the phone what was going on. She put me on hold to look for the "fax" that the other doctor sent over. Well, there was no fax. She immedieatly got me in for an appointment the next morning. This office was a 180 degree turn around from the one before. I was told that I had Type 1 diabetets and was put on insulin right away. Very overwhelming.

Where it all began...

08/17/2007
I'm so overwhelmed right now. I just got a voicemail from my doctors office with the results from my blood work that I had done a couple days ago. I'm on vacation right now and the office is already closed so I can't reach anyone there! I have to wait until Monday. Ahhh! I really think something is wrong. I have lost 10 lbs in the last 2 weeks, I'm always nauseous, I have no appetite, and I am so thirsty all day long. I have been drinking at least a gallon of water a day, plus gatorades and propells. Last week I threw up randomly, it was really weird. I'm worried that I might be diabetic. My little cousin has diabetes and my mom told me that I am having all of those same symptoms that she had. It could be stress. I just quit my job and took a month off to go on a few vacations. I am moving to Lubbock in a couple days so I'm a little freaked out about that. There is so much going on so maybe it is just all stress???