Many of the people I have met at the unit are continuing with their usual activities.Atm I am not - but wasn't doing any before - in and out of hospital for nearly three years.Feeling positive that I will be able to resume some non housebound activity eventually.

Dialysis removes waste from your blood. It passes through an artificial kidney. A special fluid separates the waste from your blood. Purified blood then returns to you body. Dialysis is for people with severe kidney damage,from T2 diabetes.

Yeah age 23 (I am 59 now) I did not even own a computer nor could I do online searches. Reactive hypoglycemia to me back then meant my sugars ran too low so total oposite of diabetes. Actually the only reason doctors discovered the reactive hypoglycemia was because they were in the middle of ressuscitating me and found my sugar level to be 1.7 (USA 31), for your brain to survive you need to never ever go below 2.0 (36) and even there below 3.0 (39) for a diabetic is a danger zone. The arrest was brought on by the low sugar level, causing my brain to give me seizures, the seizures were so intense from my brain not having enough sugar it caused me to go into respiratory and cardiac arrest, the brought me back just a few seconds before the 4 min mark, by shooting me up with Dextrose. Good thing they did blood tests and figured it out. When they tested me for diabetes back then I was not diabetic, they tested me for many yrs with A1C and only the yr I was diagnosed diabetic my A1C was 11.9 % no wonder I felt like crap back then. 3 yrs before being diabetic my fbs on labs was 6.1 (110) but the A1C was normal, so they stated it was the steroids causing this and not to worry about it. This was an Endocrinologist not my GP, so I figured if he stated this was OK then OK. He stated we no longer required testing for A1C, so the next one was 3 yrs later, so I obviously became diabetic during those 3 yrs were I was not monitored. Wondering if he dismissed me thinking he would make more money out of me if I did become diabetic,once diabetic he put me on medications for it, and after 9 months I was having extreme hypos so pharmacist suggested I stop the medications as my A1C by then was down to 6.5 %, the Endo got mad that I stopped the medications and stated he no longer wanted to follow me anymore as seeing I listened to my pharmacist (who had accessed my labs and checked my Libre something Endo never checked himself) then I no longer required him, he even called me non compliant patient. The next A1C was 5.8 % because I listened to pharmacist advice. Now my A1C is stuck at 6.3 % and new Endo told me this is normal because I have reactive hypoglycemia, which is a pre diabetes state, he stated the reason I went down to 5.8 % was because we stopped the steroids that year, but to expect pre diabetes numbers from now on. Because my A1C was at 11.9 % I am still a type 2 diabetic but in remission, while still having pre diabetes from reactive hypoglycemia. So I battle 2 forms of diabetes. Hence the high fbs.

@A DiabetesTeam Member Right you are but it's so difficult these days because there's a lot of garbage out there with the letters M.D. after their names, too many sources of uninformed opinions and down right lies. This doesn't even include well meaning or uneducated people giving crapola advice or old wives tales when they find out you have diabetes.

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