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Originally Posted by amvcdotcom
Godsmack: Sorry to hear about your kidneys but am happy to hear the damage stopped there and meds are "all" you need for them.
My number was above 600 when I went in...they couldn't even get a meter reading or AC1 reading from me because their machines only went up to 600. This is when everyone freaked out. The were concerned about my organs, eyes, and feet.....explained to me that usually goes to and concentrates on one of those three and causes major damage to whichever it chooses to focus on. Mine was my eyes, but was only temporary as my numbers go lowered quickly. I say all of this because one of the guys I met in the waiting room got hit by it in his kidneys so bad that he has to start dialysis...so I'm happy to hear that you got managed and dodged the bullet (or just got nicked by it  |
Yeah, the damage to my kidneys were not that bad thank god for that. A life of dialyzes isn't much fun.
My numbers were off the scale as well, and i was dried out, they put 12 sacs of fluid back into my body which took over a week or so. I dropped in weight 22 kilos in only a few weeks, this is were my wife said i had to go to the doctor.
What sucked as well is that i bought a new house when i was in hospital and i had to fill in papers for my life insurance, guess what... they don't want to insure me because of this diabetes type 1.
I hope you can get yours under control, it took me some months to get it under control and i am less and less sick. My first week on insulin was hell, my eyes had to get used to the insulin resulting in 2 weeks of almost total blindness, was real scary, also the medicines i got for cholesterol, blood pressure and leaking kidneys made me really really sick for weeks.