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• Mish says:

  September 4, 2005 at 10:04

  When i was diagnosed ( i was 14, if that matters) i was in the honeymoon phase and my sugars were around 50 mmol/L. The insulin amount is so small that it hardly has any effect at all. For around a year i had trouble with hypogylcaema due to sporadic bursts of insulin but it has stopped now. I have always had to give injections since diagnosis. and i definately showed symptoms. I lost 20kg (about 1 third of my weight), i was extremely thirsty and would need to urinate around 20-30 times a day.

  So to answer your question, sugars for me rarely went high after diagnosis but i had a problem with low blood sugars. If i didn’t inject though, i would have had high sugars. The only reason i survived was because i was sporadically making a small amount of insulin…but not enough to sustain me permanently.
• Miz Lamb says:

  September 2, 2005 at 12:25

  The diagnosis is made with a blood test. It is based on the HbA1c and another test that I cannot remember right now.

  They do have high glucose numbers, and have to take some insulin to control it.

  The blood sugar levels are NOT in the normal range of 60 to 100.

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