From Diabetes International

In the interest of sharing and explaining what happened to me, the following is from my first post to Diabetes International:

Posted: 1 October 2002 to diabetes_int@yahoogroups.com

I am 32 years old male and just learned of my condition when I was put into the hospital Thursday 19 September 2002 suffering from Ketoacidosis and blood sugars above 700.

In the past week or so I have had to learn and process quite a bit of new information: BG scores, different types of insulin, Type I vs. II, vision, feet, etc. Now, I am feeling a bit isolated because I am not Type I, not overweight (5'11" - 125lbs) and never really had a "sweet-tooth" or a poor diet. Perhaps I should have exercised a bit more, but that's it.

***For the curious, I went Keto after 5-6 months of a zero-low carb diet. I lost 20lbs (163 to 142) in 4 months. Then I lost 30lbs in 6 weeks (142 to 112) during a time when I put the carbs (high-sugar ones, big mistake) back into my diet because I was concerned about the beginnings of rapid weight loss. I didn't even hear the words Diabetes or Blood Sugar until I woke up in ICU.***

The Doctors are still tossing the coin over Type II vs. massive pancreas trauma and don't really buy into the theory that I will recover fully when my blood sugars balance out. They are of the mindset that I have been and un-diagnosed Type II for a few years.

However, I seem to be highly reactive to insulin and therefore not Insulin-Resistant. Indeed, the first few days after being discharged I had to drop my R + NPH dose by about 10-15% a day because I was going hypo about 4 times every 24 hours. Second, my pancreas is producing insulin. It just doesn?t know when or how much at the moment.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?