Over the last couple of weeks I haven't been feeling too well.
Without going into too much detail, I thought I may have appendicitis so I went to a doctor at the medical centee up the road from work. He sent me off for a whole pile of tests and scans, and it turns out I have PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) and I'm insulin resistant, and due to my scary blood glucose first thing in the morning, he suspected I was also diabetic so he sent me for a glucose tolerance test - which I failed gloriously. I had more bloods done and yep, diabetes.
I've just come back from buying a blood glucose meter/monitor (now called Dracula). It could be type 2 or type 1.5. I'm waiting for an appointment with a diabetes educator, FODMAP diabetes dietician and an Endocrinologist. Meanwhile, I'm busy being bitten by dracula up to 7 times a day and trying to figure out what response everything I eat and drink has on my numbers.
The doc sent me back to my normal GP, who sent me off for extra blood tests to see if there's anything else in the works, while she investigates what pills she can give me to sort this all out. I'm also vitamin D deficient (common for diabetics) and my cholesterol is elevated for the first time ever (also common for diabetics). My Iron is way high - etc.
Basically, I already knew that I'm a fructose malapsorber, which means there's about 10 things I can eat and about a billion that I can't (or shouldn't, LOL). I'd been unwell and tired and sick for years before we figured this out and as long as I'm really carefully monitoring what I eat AND drink, I'm okay. We thought maybe it was fructose related, but I haven't consumed any FODMAPs in months.
Crikey.
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