My Diabetes Type Two Symptoms and Dramatic Weight Loss

For the past year or so I have been suffering from extreme thirst problems. At times it was unbearable, a bit like being in the desert with no water. I would wake constantly in the night desperate for a drink of water. This then lead to me wanting to go to the loo more frequently during the night and so I suffered from a lack of good nights sleep basically every night. I went out and bought lip balm thinking it was due to dry lips. I even tried an oral mouth wash thinking it must be due to diseased gums but nothing changed, the thirst was driving me crazy.

I went away to work just before Christmas and took my wife with me. It was freezing cold with snow and ice everywhere. We took eight litres of water with us and by the first morning I had drunk five of the bottles and still couldn't quench my thirst. My wife was shocked as I hadn't even told her about my thirst problem. I just kept thinking it would go away but of course it never did. She kept on at me for the next few days to book an appointment with my doctor for when we got back home.

I made the call to see my doctor and said I have had some thirst problems and explained what had happened on the first day of my work trip away. My doctor immediately got me to give a urine sample and tested it straight away. She looked very worried as she said I think you have type two diabetes but you need a fasting blood test to confirm it, but you are showing the classic symptoms of diabetes type two. I was shocked at the news and my wife was waiting for me in the surgery waiting room and I was in a daze as I left the surgery. I was due to go back at the end of the week to have a fasting blood test taken and also a few other blood test that I would later find out how important they were.

The night before the fasting blood test I wasn't allowed to eat a thing, and in any case I was now on a strict diet being 17 stone and in my doctors words obese! I had given up smoking ten years earlier and piled the pounds on. You give up one craving to be overtaken by another.

I have now got my weight down to 12 stone 5lbs, blood levels between 5 and 6 daily and cholesterol at 3. 5.

You have to have reasons to dedicate yourself to diet and I found the love of my family the thing above everything else that kept me motivated to lose the weight. Good luck and Good Health.

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