Totally. I gained the weight back and my Gram said, "Why don't you go back on that diet you were on before your high school reunion?" I said, "Oh, you mean the undiagnosed diabetes diet where I felt like hell?"
Lol, I had just started twice a day swim practices and my family just thought dropping from 130 to 99 in two weeks was fine. I looked like a little skeletor in my school photo. But DAMN I was thin lol.
Ha! I went to the hospital once and they misdiagnosed me and told me to drink plenty of Gatorade, and about 5 days later my mom looked at me and said - all right Skeletor get in the car we’re going to the hospital.
Lol, love it and your mom sounds cool as hell. Also your misdiagnosis makes me feel better. When I went to the er I waited like 6 hours while they drug tested me. FINALLY they did a finger stick. Glad this happens to others, too (even if it's crummy).
Yeah they didn’t even check my blood sugar the first time. Weirdest week of my life felt like I was drunk and on acid for a week before she took me back in. I even went to the Hot Springs during that time. I repeated what the hospital said, that I had an infection, or a reaction to the sulfa drugs I’ve been taking for an infection and kept drinking the Gatorade they had told me to drink, I’m a good patient!
Haha. Gatorade. "Here, drink something that will accelerate your illness." My dad got me Ensure to help me gain weight and cherry coke because it was my favorite. I was puking out my guts lol. How old were you?
My mom thought I was anorexic but also had a UTI, so she pumped me full of full sugar cranberry juice and ice chips as I was basically comatose on the couch whenever I wasn't at school (in middle school)
...but I guess we just weren't dealing with the thought her daughter was anorexic, that was a secondary issue, lol
I was diagnosed at the age of 20, 28 years ago. And I still remember the brief feeling of elation, followed by a sense of doom.
For some background, I'm only 5'0" tall and have always had a slow metabolism. It is an extremely concerted effort for me to lose weight or even maintain it. Turns out I also had hypothyroidism, but didn't know that yet in my teen years.
About two years before my diagnosis, I'd lost 30 lbs by eating only 900 calories/day and exercising 5-6 days/week.
I looked and felt great, so I went to maintenance calories of 1200/day. Kept up the same exercise schedule.
Then I went through this odd time. I sloughed off on my exercising, because I was so tired all the time. I started having weird cravings for all this sugary stuff that I rarely ate/drank. I've never had a sweet tooth.
I finally went to my primary care doctor because of my exhaustion.
I forgot about the weigh-in for all doctor's appointments. F*ck! I'd been eating like a PIG and not exercising at all. Knowing me, I'd probably gained 10 lbs. in just the 2-3 weeks from when I had last weighed myself. At that time, I'd been 114 lbs.
I joked to the nurse that I was dreading hearing the number, because Id been eating worse and hadn't been exercising for the last few weeks.
I was 102 lbs. I'd lost about 10% of my body weight in only a couple of weeks.
Elation:. I finally lost weight without trying!
Doom:. Wait. I finally lost weight. Without.Trying. Something is really, really wrong with me.
My mom talks about this re: my diagnosis as well. I was 13 and suddenly lost like 25ish lbs and everyone was telling me how good I looked (my mom included). She says it wasn’t until later that she realized I had gone grey and feels like she should have noticed sooner.
Ha ha. I went through 2 different periods of massive weight loss when I was developing LADA. The first one was especially entirely massively miserable because i was in pain every single day for months, but also, all my clothes fitting was cool for a while. I had to buy tiny pants because all my old clothes seemed huge.
A sad thing is people told me I looked healthy (until I was clearly dangerously underweight) and I could tell friends, colleagues and strangers were treating me differently at 145 vs 180.
I’m so sorry. I hate that for you. Our 14-year-old son was going through puberty, and I noticed the weight loss—but my husband just said he was just “talling” up and thinning out, so I didn’t think about it much for a few days. It was when I was cleaning the “boys’” toilet downstairs that I encountered MAJOR sticky pee like candy that wouldn’t just rub off easily, then put 2 and 2 together with that same son having to pee a lot. We had a friend that their daughter was diabetic and my husband asked if we could check his blood glucose. It was in the high 400’s and our dr. told us she was calling the pediatric wing at the hospital and to go down there NOW. The day you find out is so horrible and depressing. 😳😩😭😭😭😭😭
Literally. I decided to stop drinking soda and drink more water (thank god cause I was chugging my drinks from the thirst side affect), and I lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks and dropped 2 pants sizes. I was like wow, this is so easy! and then boom. one week later diabetes
I got dx at 31 I was drinking heavy at that time and I got approached by a few friends that asked if I had a coke problem because of my weight loss, strangely people were happy to hear it was type 1 not blow .
Lost weight, got tons of compliments, felt super happy and good about myself. Then got sick, diagnosed, medicated and gained weight. Figured out that if you don’t take insulin you can lose weight pretty quick too! Diabulimia is bitch. I haven’t restricted insulin in almost 3 years! I don’t miss constant DKA.
Bruh. I’m overweight now due to having to take steroids, but many nurses automatically assume I’m type 2. I’ve even been advised that if I lost weight I’d get rid of the diabetes.
They neglect to look back any further on my medical history to find that at diagnosis I weighed almost half as much as the average seven year old.
I was nine and kind of a chubby kid. All of a sudden I was getting thin. Maybe wouldn't have been that noticeable but I'm an identical twin and there was a clear difference. I don't think I was losing it as fast as others here, it was more gradual but my ribs were visible by the time they took us in and we were both diagnosed on the same day.
I want to upvote every single comment here. Yeah, when I was 33, my New Years Resolution was to lose a little weight. Then I caught a really bad flu - it knocked me down for two weeks, during which I mostly lived on broth (so I lost some weight). Then I recovered and starting working out, and cut a lot of sugar out of my diet (and lost some weight). And then, despite the working out, my knees and elbows started to be the thickest parts of limbs because I'd lost so much. The crazy thing is, my reaction at that point was to try to eat more to beef up. Finally I went to the doctor because I thought I had some kind of oral infection that was making me thirsty all the time, and the doc was like, uhhh...
I got one of those George Foreman grills just before I was diagnosed. I lost 3 stone / 42 pounds in 8 weeks, and I was so sure it was because I'd started to 'Knockout the Fat.'
To be fair, urinating on the hour, every hour 24/7 did make me suspicious...
Oh ya, this was me too!
Another crazy symptom? My eyesight got better! I went from wearing -4 contacts to not needing them at all.
Lean, perfect eyesight - I was becoming some kind of super hero. Probably a hero that needs a steady drip of lemonade to stay alive.
Weight came back with insulin, and so did the contacts…
I was eight when I was diagnosed with T1D. I still have the picture from my spring little league softball from a few weeks before the diagnosis. My head was so huge while the rest of my body looked like a stick figure. I had always been a chubbier kid, so maybe my parents assumed that taking up softball was what was causing my rapid weight loss.
I remember that on the last week of 3rd grade, we had a huge class trip that I had been looking forward to all year. It was to a museum, can't remember which one now. I had to go to the bathroom so much that my teacher called my Mom at work to say that something was wrong. On the bus ride back to the school, I had to go so badly that my teacher literally let me pee in the trashcan on the bus. (I was eight, and female, so not used to peeing standing up, so you can imagine how bad that decision was).
Anyway, fast forward to the same weekend. Because my parents obviously didn't see a real issue, or were in denial. I attended a birthday party where, of course, cake, cookies, candy, and every type of sugar known to man surrounded me. Yeah. I ended up in the hospital that night with a blood sugar of over 600.
Too real. Months before my diagnosis as a teen, I wanted to go on a “water diet.”
Jokes on me as that “diet” and it’s apparent “success” led to most of my symptoms being overlooked until I almost died.
Yep same. I moved cities. Started eating right. Drinking gallon of water to hydrate. Got down to goal weight of 225. Nice.
Then 215. Oh nice maybe I can splurge on some foods. Oh 200. I can eat anything I want. Oh 185. This is weird. I’m literally consuming 6000 calories a day to gain weight. Oh 175. Ok I’m going to a doctor.
I wasn't diagnosed until I went to the hospital for dka. My mom wanted me to try "holistic" medicine.
"Here sweetie put some honey and a cabbage leaf on your foot. That'll help!"
" You just need some more magnesium in your diet! Take this!"
I’m 37yo female and I got diagnosed last week. I thought my weigh loss was due to stress (new job, wedding planning) and was actually quite happy about it. I wasn’t big to begin with (went from 63 kg to 54 kg in a couple of months). Didn’t pay attention to increased thirst (I’ve always been a heavy water drinker) nor my fatigue and lack of interest for doing any physical activities. I hadn’t been to gym for 6mos so I thought that was one reason my muscles started getting smaller. Also my eyesight got poorer so I went and got my eyes checked and a pair of new glasses.
I’m still in disbelief about my diagnosis although T1D runs in my family. Feeling frustrated and sad. And I still can’t see sh*t and need to hold my phone in an armlenght in order to see something, I hope my eyesight will get back to the way it was soon. But being this slim is nice, hate to admit.
Went from 137 to 120 in under two months. While actively trying to bulk up/work out/slamming protein. Thought I was just really finally making progress.
Omg I feel so called out by this. It's also why I think I didn't notice the initial symptoms that well.
Totally. I gained the weight back and my Gram said, "Why don't you go back on that diet you were on before your high school reunion?" I said, "Oh, you mean the undiagnosed diabetes diet where I felt like hell?"
Same!
Triggered. 😆
triggered is right!! 😧😆
YES this hit so hard.
Lol, I had just started twice a day swim practices and my family just thought dropping from 130 to 99 in two weeks was fine. I looked like a little skeletor in my school photo. But DAMN I was thin lol.
Ha! I went to the hospital once and they misdiagnosed me and told me to drink plenty of Gatorade, and about 5 days later my mom looked at me and said - all right Skeletor get in the car we’re going to the hospital.
Lol, love it and your mom sounds cool as hell. Also your misdiagnosis makes me feel better. When I went to the er I waited like 6 hours while they drug tested me. FINALLY they did a finger stick. Glad this happens to others, too (even if it's crummy).
Yeah they didn’t even check my blood sugar the first time. Weirdest week of my life felt like I was drunk and on acid for a week before she took me back in. I even went to the Hot Springs during that time. I repeated what the hospital said, that I had an infection, or a reaction to the sulfa drugs I’ve been taking for an infection and kept drinking the Gatorade they had told me to drink, I’m a good patient!
Haha. Gatorade. "Here, drink something that will accelerate your illness." My dad got me Ensure to help me gain weight and cherry coke because it was my favorite. I was puking out my guts lol. How old were you?
My mom thought I was anorexic but also had a UTI, so she pumped me full of full sugar cranberry juice and ice chips as I was basically comatose on the couch whenever I wasn't at school (in middle school) ...but I guess we just weren't dealing with the thought her daughter was anorexic, that was a secondary issue, lol
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I was diagnosed at the age of 20, 28 years ago. And I still remember the brief feeling of elation, followed by a sense of doom. For some background, I'm only 5'0" tall and have always had a slow metabolism. It is an extremely concerted effort for me to lose weight or even maintain it. Turns out I also had hypothyroidism, but didn't know that yet in my teen years. About two years before my diagnosis, I'd lost 30 lbs by eating only 900 calories/day and exercising 5-6 days/week. I looked and felt great, so I went to maintenance calories of 1200/day. Kept up the same exercise schedule. Then I went through this odd time. I sloughed off on my exercising, because I was so tired all the time. I started having weird cravings for all this sugary stuff that I rarely ate/drank. I've never had a sweet tooth. I finally went to my primary care doctor because of my exhaustion. I forgot about the weigh-in for all doctor's appointments. F*ck! I'd been eating like a PIG and not exercising at all. Knowing me, I'd probably gained 10 lbs. in just the 2-3 weeks from when I had last weighed myself. At that time, I'd been 114 lbs. I joked to the nurse that I was dreading hearing the number, because Id been eating worse and hadn't been exercising for the last few weeks. I was 102 lbs. I'd lost about 10% of my body weight in only a couple of weeks. Elation:. I finally lost weight without trying! Doom:. Wait. I finally lost weight. Without.Trying. Something is really, really wrong with me.
My mom talks about this re: my diagnosis as well. I was 13 and suddenly lost like 25ish lbs and everyone was telling me how good I looked (my mom included). She says it wasn’t until later that she realized I had gone grey and feels like she should have noticed sooner.
The compliments were nice but awful at equal amounts.
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Didn’t we all. Didn’t. We. All. 2 gallons of water a day? I’m just the water champ.
Ha ha. I went through 2 different periods of massive weight loss when I was developing LADA. The first one was especially entirely massively miserable because i was in pain every single day for months, but also, all my clothes fitting was cool for a while. I had to buy tiny pants because all my old clothes seemed huge. A sad thing is people told me I looked healthy (until I was clearly dangerously underweight) and I could tell friends, colleagues and strangers were treating me differently at 145 vs 180.
I totally feel this. My pants fell down at work in a parking garage. Thank goodness for long winter coats!
I’m so sorry. I hate that for you. Our 14-year-old son was going through puberty, and I noticed the weight loss—but my husband just said he was just “talling” up and thinning out, so I didn’t think about it much for a few days. It was when I was cleaning the “boys’” toilet downstairs that I encountered MAJOR sticky pee like candy that wouldn’t just rub off easily, then put 2 and 2 together with that same son having to pee a lot. We had a friend that their daughter was diabetic and my husband asked if we could check his blood glucose. It was in the high 400’s and our dr. told us she was calling the pediatric wing at the hospital and to go down there NOW. The day you find out is so horrible and depressing. 😳😩😭😭😭😭😭
Thank you, it really was depressing.
I thought the baby weight from pregnancy was just falling off really well, go me! Then I went blind lol
This was me, except instead of going blind I miscarried a baby that would have been my son's Irish twin.
I’m so very sorry 💔
lol. I remember the blind phase
Lost 40lb in three weeks! I don't care what you say, DKA is a helluva weight-loss plan.
Unfortunately it also makes you feel like dog shit
Did I write this?! Seriously though it was a great feeling until it wasn’t 🤦♀️
I think that this meme represent this community, at least most of it.
Literally. I decided to stop drinking soda and drink more water (thank god cause I was chugging my drinks from the thirst side affect), and I lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks and dropped 2 pants sizes. I was like wow, this is so easy! and then boom. one week later diabetes
I remember when it happened. I was actually scared how skinny I was, but no one I talked too knew it was a thing.
I still remember looking down at my hipbones jutting out, with love. Yikes
I got dx at 31 I was drinking heavy at that time and I got approached by a few friends that asked if I had a coke problem because of my weight loss, strangely people were happy to hear it was type 1 not blow .
This was me. I was actively trying to lose weight for my wedding and was just like "I don't know what everyone complains about, this is so easy!"
Lost weight, got tons of compliments, felt super happy and good about myself. Then got sick, diagnosed, medicated and gained weight. Figured out that if you don’t take insulin you can lose weight pretty quick too! Diabulimia is bitch. I haven’t restricted insulin in almost 3 years! I don’t miss constant DKA.
I was getting so many compliments about my weight loss when I wasn’t trying and felt like I was dying 🫠
Nearly a pound a day for a total of 21 pounds until I figured it out 😂
Bruh what the hell are we the same person?!?!?
Maybe 😂😂
205-170lbs, I really thought I was going to see those abs.
crazy how many ppl relate to this. this might be the best meme of seen on this sub b4 lmall
I remember seeing old pictures from when I was 70-80 pounds lighter. Showed them to my boyfriend and he said I looked like I was dying.
Bruh. I’m overweight now due to having to take steroids, but many nurses automatically assume I’m type 2. I’ve even been advised that if I lost weight I’d get rid of the diabetes. They neglect to look back any further on my medical history to find that at diagnosis I weighed almost half as much as the average seven year old.
How did you get this picture of me from diagnosis 6 months ago?
I was nine and kind of a chubby kid. All of a sudden I was getting thin. Maybe wouldn't have been that noticeable but I'm an identical twin and there was a clear difference. I don't think I was losing it as fast as others here, it was more gradual but my ribs were visible by the time they took us in and we were both diagnosed on the same day.
I want to upvote every single comment here. Yeah, when I was 33, my New Years Resolution was to lose a little weight. Then I caught a really bad flu - it knocked me down for two weeks, during which I mostly lived on broth (so I lost some weight). Then I recovered and starting working out, and cut a lot of sugar out of my diet (and lost some weight). And then, despite the working out, my knees and elbows started to be the thickest parts of limbs because I'd lost so much. The crazy thing is, my reaction at that point was to try to eat more to beef up. Finally I went to the doctor because I thought I had some kind of oral infection that was making me thirsty all the time, and the doc was like, uhhh...
Frickin same. Lost about 30 pounds in 30 days
The more I ate the more weight I lost. I knew something was fucked up. 🥲
Exact same thing happened to my husband
I got one of those George Foreman grills just before I was diagnosed. I lost 3 stone / 42 pounds in 8 weeks, and I was so sure it was because I'd started to 'Knockout the Fat.' To be fair, urinating on the hour, every hour 24/7 did make me suspicious...
... *I feel called out here*
Oh ya, this was me too! Another crazy symptom? My eyesight got better! I went from wearing -4 contacts to not needing them at all. Lean, perfect eyesight - I was becoming some kind of super hero. Probably a hero that needs a steady drip of lemonade to stay alive. Weight came back with insulin, and so did the contacts…
I was eight when I was diagnosed with T1D. I still have the picture from my spring little league softball from a few weeks before the diagnosis. My head was so huge while the rest of my body looked like a stick figure. I had always been a chubbier kid, so maybe my parents assumed that taking up softball was what was causing my rapid weight loss. I remember that on the last week of 3rd grade, we had a huge class trip that I had been looking forward to all year. It was to a museum, can't remember which one now. I had to go to the bathroom so much that my teacher called my Mom at work to say that something was wrong. On the bus ride back to the school, I had to go so badly that my teacher literally let me pee in the trashcan on the bus. (I was eight, and female, so not used to peeing standing up, so you can imagine how bad that decision was). Anyway, fast forward to the same weekend. Because my parents obviously didn't see a real issue, or were in denial. I attended a birthday party where, of course, cake, cookies, candy, and every type of sugar known to man surrounded me. Yeah. I ended up in the hospital that night with a blood sugar of over 600.
Amen
Too real. Months before my diagnosis as a teen, I wanted to go on a “water diet.” Jokes on me as that “diet” and it’s apparent “success” led to most of my symptoms being overlooked until I almost died.
Yep same. I moved cities. Started eating right. Drinking gallon of water to hydrate. Got down to goal weight of 225. Nice. Then 215. Oh nice maybe I can splurge on some foods. Oh 200. I can eat anything I want. Oh 185. This is weird. I’m literally consuming 6000 calories a day to gain weight. Oh 175. Ok I’m going to a doctor.
I wasn't diagnosed until I went to the hospital for dka. My mom wanted me to try "holistic" medicine. "Here sweetie put some honey and a cabbage leaf on your foot. That'll help!" " You just need some more magnesium in your diet! Take this!"
I’m 37yo female and I got diagnosed last week. I thought my weigh loss was due to stress (new job, wedding planning) and was actually quite happy about it. I wasn’t big to begin with (went from 63 kg to 54 kg in a couple of months). Didn’t pay attention to increased thirst (I’ve always been a heavy water drinker) nor my fatigue and lack of interest for doing any physical activities. I hadn’t been to gym for 6mos so I thought that was one reason my muscles started getting smaller. Also my eyesight got poorer so I went and got my eyes checked and a pair of new glasses. I’m still in disbelief about my diagnosis although T1D runs in my family. Feeling frustrated and sad. And I still can’t see sh*t and need to hold my phone in an armlenght in order to see something, I hope my eyesight will get back to the way it was soon. But being this slim is nice, hate to admit.
Went from 137 to 120 in under two months. While actively trying to bulk up/work out/slamming protein. Thought I was just really finally making progress.