Reply #99: I have diabetes, was just diagnosed at age 29 last year [View All]

Because the cutoff point for type I is about ages 29/30, the doctors were not sure what I was. It does not run in my family, I'm not overweight. I guess they consider me a type 2 because I still have insulin in my pancreas but not alot and it does not work very well. I take insulin and metaformin and my blood sugars are really good but rarely stable. You have to check your sugars constantly. I can eat cake, cookies, icecream like everyone else but very small servings of it. I have to watch my carb count. Sugar-free food has lower carbs so I eat some of those when I have a craving. I've had some really low blood sugar episodes because when you take insulin it can make your blood sugar go low quickly and without warning and once I fainted. Its hard to tell when your slipping into it. Thankfully my husband, parents and friends are great and really keeps a close eye on me. I have 2 little girls, 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 and my primary doctor thinks having the pregnancies back to back pushed me overbooard into having gestational diabetes and then it just never left and most times it does. I actually gained only 5 pounds in my second pregnancy because of the strict diet I was on so my daughter would not get too big. My doctor thinks I must have been pre-diabetic, where your sugars are borderline and go go high enough to make you diabetic. Its a hard disease to have and I pray someday that there will be a cure to help generate insulin for type 1's and help the inuslin type 2's have work better. I hope Chris gets better even if I disagree with his views sometimes or his pandering to rethugs:) Diabetes complications suck and it recently took me 6 weeks to get over what would be a 1 week cold. I had to take steroids to get rid of it because infections develope very easy with diabetes, even when your blood sugars are not too high.