Health & Fitness

Diabetes

Health & Fitness

Posted by: phoenix

1st Jul 2011 03:08pm

Has any one got it? And how young/old were you?

As of saturday the 25th of june 2011 I now have type 2 Diabetes.

But am a healthy 30 year old and exercise regularly, non smoker or drinker (social social at best)

So it shows ye no need be old to get problems


Comments 9

Bigfoot
  • 6th Sep 2012 06:31pm

Hi Pheonix, I was feeling tired when driving as a courier so I went to my doctor to find out why. This was 14 years ago when I was 59 and also considered myself healthy. My doctor did tests and diagnosed type2 Diabetes. If I hadn't felt so tired that I felt almost that I would have to pull over and have nap I would have never even known about type2. Don't worry about it if you are doing all that your doctor is asking of you as worrying may make the type 2 worse. Accept that you have it and get on with life happily.

simla
  • 11th Sep 2012 11:09pm
Hi Pheonix, I was feeling tired when driving as a courier so I went to my doctor to find out why. This was 14 years ago when I was 59 and also considered myself healthy. My doctor did tests and...

hi bigfoot. i, at 52 years old, like you firstly had chronic fatigue symptoms. family history of type 2 diabetes had me suspicious, but i think i had it long before it was diagnosed, but no doctor did any tests till i asked for a pin prick test in the surgery on an early morning appointment, found a result of only 2 [4 is as low as you should be] hypoglycemia is often a precurser to diabetes.next was the glucose test which showed low level diabetes. now i feel so much better,since the diet has fixed the blood sugar spikes. keeping stress out of your life is a must. its worse than anything.

hoppy55555
  • 2nd Jun 2012 03:50pm

You have a very interesting subject.I was Diabetic for over a couple of years.At least I have been told.To wake up one day,not being able to move or see at all.After years of rehab,to find out you have been asleep for over 10 months.To be more presise,in a coma.When a car runs you over at 170km it does some damage.It has now been over 15 years since I was on insulin.I hope your body corrects,if it can.

paulH
  • 20th Apr 2012 10:26pm

I have been diagnosed for over a year now with prediabetes or insulin resistance, a precursor to full on Type II diabetes. I was eating a lot of sugary , and starchy foods (chips, bread , pastries) each week. Now with a rethink I eat much less sugar and chips are a once a month or less, pazza maybe twice a month . Now eating much more healthily and keeping sugar levels down.

Brandywine
  • 19th Apr 2012 12:00pm

not really common to get diabetes at young age..but you do need to be very careful of how much you smoke and drink...lots of exercise (especially lifting heavy weights) can actually reverse diabetes if you keep at it...has been proven recently..so keep at it in the gym and then you won't need to be stuck on tablets for rest of your life..

typhoon
  • 17th Apr 2012 10:02pm

i found that i was type two diabetic at 52 years of age.It was no suprise as there was a family history of diabetes and my father found that he was diabetic much earlier in life than i was.as such i always got a yearly gtt test which showed up the diabetes just starting or as i see it, behave myself now or suffer the consequences.

Ziah
  • 16th Apr 2012 06:44pm

I was a relatively fit and healthy (non-smoker, non-drinker too) 29 when diagnosed with type 1.5 - late-onset diabetes in adults. It's effectively type 1, as I am completely insulin dependent, but I was supposedly too old to be diagnosed a type 1. It hit me all of a sudden - one week I was perfectly normal, and then I lost my job. Within 2 weeks I had lost 15kg, could barely drag myself out of bed only to get to the couch and seep all day, waking only to drink (upwards of 15 litres a day) and pee all the time. My doctor said I'd probably had a virus that had triggered it.

I've now been a diabetic for 12 years, insulin- dependent for five. I have also been diagnosed celiac (gluten-intolerant), fructose-intolerant, lactose-intolerant and a soy allergy since being diagnosed diabetic - and diabetics are far more likely to have other sensitivities like these. Also type 1 diabetics are more likely to have other auto-immune diseases like polycystic ovarian syndrome (which I've had since age 16), rheumatoid arthritis (mildly for about five years), celiac disease (almost 6 years) etc.

Blessedly I don't have any side-effects of diabetes yet, like peripheral neuropathy or retinal neuropathy, or kidney disease, but I am fighting to keep both my blood pressure and cholesterol in the healthy range. It's an uphill battle to stay as healthy and active as I'd like to be...

Rog
  • 27th Mar 2012 02:46pm

A virulent strain of 'flu about six years ago - contracted while working in an hospital - brought on diabetes II at the age of sixty.

dragonlady
  • 6th Mar 2012 04:46pm

my sis has diabetes, she got it when she was pregnet and now being older she has had it 4 3years now looks like a stick and doen't eat a lot.

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