Once you get past the body betrayal part, you will find that a lot of progress has been made in managing this chronic disease.
I would want these findings confirmed, beyond a shadow of doubt.

 

Funny that my podiatrist just mentioned this this morning....as I mentioned some numbness in toes and fingers (when I wake up in the morning). I'm due for a CBC in another month and will check this out with my regular doc in early June. No history of diabetes in my family at all, so I hope this is not in the cards for me (yet). I DO have a bad sweet tooth...

Good luck with your treatment, Mike....and getting 'back to work' soon. It's a bummer about the insurance gap thing

Maybe you can get temporary disability compensation.....

 

Jerry, I sure hope you test out fine. You might want to move that appt. earlier if it's convenient though, the earlier it's caught the better.

RC, two full blood panels so far, I'll be starting full time BG monitoring in 11 days. My fasting Blood Glucose levels were both over 400 (as were my cholestorol and triglycerides) and my A1c was 14.7 on 2 different days, so unfortunately it's a pretty definite diagnosis.

Thanks again everybody!

 

Mike: Looks that way. Discipline supposedly is important, and it sounds like you have it. You take care now.

 

It sounds like you tend to have healthy habits (diet and excercise) which should help you a great deal.

And congrats on the wedding.

 

I am surprised you are not covered by your future wife's insurance automatically.

 

Pre-existing condition exclusion. (for 2 years) Bastids! Although this is just info from her H/R office coordinator, I'm hoping to get info directly from the insurance co. next week.

 

Mike,

For many conditions, there are a plethora of drugs that can be prescribed. Different people react differently to a given drug; over time they may well be able to come up with a regimen that achieves the desired controls with less severe side effects.

Hang in there. I wish you the best of luck.

 

Good luck with your treatment, Mike. At least you have lots of company to get advice from.

 

Yep, I am one of those. I never had any real problems with my heart and got to 57 without too much of a problem. But as I was laying in the recovery room from a cancer ablation, I suffered a heart attack. One week later I was again in a recovery room from a quad bypass That was totally unexpected and quite frightening. But I am still here and recovering, slowly but surely.