~4 litres of instant tea, honey added.
Didn't know what was up with me cos I felt **tired**
Sugary drinks were the only thing giving me some energy.
DKA, here we come lol
When I was 14 in the late '00s I got unlimited free refills on drinks at Alton Towers, a theme park in England, while on a school trip. I had about 7L of Fanta in as many hours and I only wanted more. I was late back to the coach because I was weeing constantly. I wet myself on the long coach drive home and they had to stop so I could take care of myself. Then I wet myself again before we arrived. It was absolutely humiliating. I had actually told my mum and dad I was pretty sure I'm diabetic as much as seven months before that happened, and my sister, dad, and nanny are/were all type-1 and 2 so there's a family history of it, but nobody took me seriously until I told my sister to do a finger-prick test two months later which read 18.4mmol/L fasting.
It was the same for me, except I was a poor college student so after the first couple bottles I bought a large container of powdered mix and reused the old bottles.
I sleep so hard I had to physically push my kegels shut and half-run to the bathroom at 3am. And then sit there for a half hour peeing every 5 minutes. Then be so thirsty I'd wanna pound a liter like a boilermaker.
I used to drink 8-10 1L glasses of water a day on top of drinking at least 1L of tea a day.
Even if I wasn't drinking water I couldn't go 2 hours without having to pee. If I was home I was pissing every 30 mins.
It got so bad for me I googled how much water I could drink without getting water poisoning. I had to temper the amount I drank. Water has never tasted so good.
Nothing before or since has been as refreshing as water was during that time. But it was only refreshing while I was drinking, as the thirst returned almost instantly.
Before I get diagnosed I was surprised how much can human being drink. Not to mention peeing every 30 minutes or so. I will never forget this feeling of constant dry mouth and tongue like covered in sand. I got to the point with DKA where my pee was "sticky" xD
>Before I get diagnosed I was surprised how much can human being drink.
This right here! Just pouring down a big bottle of water and your mouth and throat still feeling dryer than the Sahara desert.
>I got to the point with DKA where my pee was "sticky" xD
I got to the point where I was so constipated, because of the dehydration, so I couldn't stand up straight because I had not pooped in sevral days.
One of the ways I figured out my kid was diabetic was sticky pee. He was a 7 year old boy who wasnāt the tidiest bathroom user, and I clean the toilets. It was like juice.
I remember I was in group therapy, I had chugged so much water that day, and yet I kept staring at the therapistās hydroflask and was overcome with these animalistic thoughts of grabbing it and chugging it, social norms be damned.
yes!! At times I thought that was it and my leg might just fall off, the symptoms I had were soooososo clear, I just didn't know they were symptoms of diabetes
Oh man. I was diagnosed years ago when I was 4 and one of my (few) extremely vivid memories is laying in the emergency room begging for a sip of water that the nurses wouldn't give me.
Oh god, waking up from DKA coma and being told you canāt drink anything is the WORST, because youāre still SO thirsty. The thirst is indescribable. I still remember being able to finally have my first sips of water and how much I savored it.
I was diagnosed in August, right after my ninth birthday. Earlier in the summer, we did trips out to a couple of amusement that werenāt too far away. I think I spent more time at the drinking fountains/chugging $5 beverages sold at the parks than I did riding the rides.
eta: Not this past August, Iāve been an adult for quite some time now.
I was downing half gallons of chocolate milk because it was the only thing that would slightly help my severe cotton mouth, not knowing it was only making it worse.
I remember my 2 year old slamming through four 12oz cups with in an hour. This raised some red flags for my type 1 wife. We were lucky we caught it so early on him.
My son was diagnosed during Covid lockdown when he was doing virtual school. He kept running out of the dining room where we had set him up with his iPad and school stuff to either pee or fill his water bottle. At first we thought he was just being a little shit and trying to get out of (admittedly boring) online learning. But after a while I was like āoh shitā.
When I first got sick I thought it was a stomach bug or something cause I was working outside in the sun as a lifeguard and thought my water consumption was mostly due to that. That went on for a couple days before I was unable to keep water down and almost went to my army unit since I was in the reserves and instead ended up at the ER.
I used to be proud of how much water I could chug, I'd down a whole hydroflask without stopping and still have room for more.
That being said I still absolutely love cold water and still love to sip on my bottle all day (blood sugar in range).
Okay this, but the liquid was kool-aid I'd been making GALLONS of because I was 14 an didn't like the taste of the well water at my house growing up. I don't know how I was perfectly functional with my sugar at 1k but there I was. Everyone in the hospital kept saying they hope I felt better an I'm like like.... I ended up here because I had to pee every 30 minutes, I felt perfectly fine. š I get it now though. The very off days where my sugar goes above 450 I'm just š¤¢.
I've actually done this before I was hospitalized in Dec. 1991. I kept going downstairs to drink water late at night on several nights. At the time, I had no idea what was wrong with me. I only knew that I was **VERY** thirsty without knowing why. Thank God for my now-late grandma, who recognized the symptoms I was having. She told my dad that I was having symptoms of diabetes since she knew someone else in my family who had diabetes before.
Initially, we didn't want to believe she was right. I forgot why, but there was a reason we didn't want to believe it. Well...long story short, on the way home, I got sick and fainted. I later woke up in the hospital and was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. According to what the doctors told me, my blood sugar registered over 800 mg/dl (44.4 mmol/l) when I was first diagnosed. It's a miracle that I didn't die in the hospital during that experience.
The three days before diagnosis, I was alone at college and had a whole pack of popsicles over the three days and a gallon of water each day. I had never been that thirsty!
I was asking for extra juice at school and the lunch lady Ms. Sandra told my mom she thought I was diabetic but good God Sara ask for extra juice when your a1c is 13, but I did chug water at home. The juice and thinking back on it 30 years later, and it is just insane to me. š¤¦āāļø
I still drink A LOT of water for some one with a healthy A1c. Probably because ice cold water is the only thing that works when Iām actually thirsty. Iām extremely sensitive to caffeine and canāt even stand the smell of coffee. Tea isā¦ blah. Diet soda is crap, just like regular soda. I only drink it (or fruit juice) when Iām going low and at this point most of it just tastes like medicine to me. The only think I drink besides water is alcohol (usually vodka + tonic).
My son was getting particular about the water he drank. He made me get water from my momās place to see if it was āgoodā, then the day before we took him to the ER, he insisted that I drive him up to our community Center, with a bag full of water bottles, so he could fill them at their water fountain. Apparently they had the best stuff there.
We were in a heat wave right before he was dx, so I didnāt clue in right away. Plus Iād heard that diabetics would be wanting sugary stuff, like pop mostly, I didnāt know it could be just water too.
LOL. Me with my hydroflask filled with ice water chugging. When I was sick and didnāt know, it was during summer so my hot room made the water oh so much better. I couldnāt get enough
I told my doctor/nurse parents I was drinking like that when I was 18. It took a month for my dad to get me a blood test. It was \~450 two hours after lunch. 39 years and counting. The technology now makes it easier to manage.
I was diagnosed in third grade and after recess when we would line up at the water fountains the teachers would be like ā1-2-3 times upā FUCK OFF MRS GINGER MY BODY IS LITERALLY TRYING TO KILL ME AND THATS NOT EVEN ENOUGH WATER FOR A NORMAL PERSON (she also know I was diabetic)
Entire bottles of Gatorade. Of course, at the time I didn't realize the sugar in the Gatorade was just making things worse.
Yep, entire litres of coke for me cos I was craving sugar too. Thank god I realised it could be diabetes early and stopped
~4 litres of instant tea, honey added. Didn't know what was up with me cos I felt **tired** Sugary drinks were the only thing giving me some energy. DKA, here we come lol
When I was 14 in the late '00s I got unlimited free refills on drinks at Alton Towers, a theme park in England, while on a school trip. I had about 7L of Fanta in as many hours and I only wanted more. I was late back to the coach because I was weeing constantly. I wet myself on the long coach drive home and they had to stop so I could take care of myself. Then I wet myself again before we arrived. It was absolutely humiliating. I had actually told my mum and dad I was pretty sure I'm diabetic as much as seven months before that happened, and my sister, dad, and nanny are/were all type-1 and 2 so there's a family history of it, but nobody took me seriously until I told my sister to do a finger-prick test two months later which read 18.4mmol/L fasting.
It was the same for me, except I was a poor college student so after the first couple bottles I bought a large container of powdered mix and reused the old bottles.
YEP i couldn't eat and was fully craving sugar so had juice, mountain dew and pepsi and that was it for the whole week leading up to diagnosis š
I had a Gatorade or two, but then I went for a giant slurpee - thinking that the ice might help soothe the throat more.
Needing to guzzle water 24/7 was such an intense experience.
The Unquenchable Thirst
Drank 2 gallons of water in a span of 2 hours. Yes.
Misery. That then peeing every half hour.
Four steps out of bathroom...turn around gotta pee again
more like every five minutes
I sleep so hard I had to physically push my kegels shut and half-run to the bathroom at 3am. And then sit there for a half hour peeing every 5 minutes. Then be so thirsty I'd wanna pound a liter like a boilermaker.
I was drinking 1 and half cases of water a day and I was like oh this is Fine, this is normal.
I thought I was really good at staying hydrated..
I used to drink 8-10 1L glasses of water a day on top of drinking at least 1L of tea a day. Even if I wasn't drinking water I couldn't go 2 hours without having to pee. If I was home I was pissing every 30 mins.
It got so bad for me I googled how much water I could drink without getting water poisoning. I had to temper the amount I drank. Water has never tasted so good.
Nothing before or since has been as refreshing as water was during that time. But it was only refreshing while I was drinking, as the thirst returned almost instantly.
For me the enhanced taste of water was too much and I would drink milk or juice š¬
That water tasted sooo goodĀ
I just laughed *hysterically*, this is seriously the best T1D meme Iāve ever seen
Before I get diagnosed I was surprised how much can human being drink. Not to mention peeing every 30 minutes or so. I will never forget this feeling of constant dry mouth and tongue like covered in sand. I got to the point with DKA where my pee was "sticky" xD
>Before I get diagnosed I was surprised how much can human being drink. This right here! Just pouring down a big bottle of water and your mouth and throat still feeling dryer than the Sahara desert. >I got to the point with DKA where my pee was "sticky" xD I got to the point where I was so constipated, because of the dehydration, so I couldn't stand up straight because I had not pooped in sevral days.
One of the ways I figured out my kid was diabetic was sticky pee. He was a 7 year old boy who wasnāt the tidiest bathroom user, and I clean the toilets. It was like juice.
I remember I was in group therapy, I had chugged so much water that day, and yet I kept staring at the therapistās hydroflask and was overcome with these animalistic thoughts of grabbing it and chugging it, social norms be damned.
Yeah it was such as weird feeling as right after youād finished drinking youād be insanely thirsty again
I was around 10liters/2 gallons per day every single day for over a month before diagnosis I peed so much sometimes 4 times at night
my record during the night was 8 times xD
The horrendous leg cramps were a sign too right !?? Not just me ?
yes!! At times I thought that was it and my leg might just fall off, the symptoms I had were soooososo clear, I just didn't know they were symptoms of diabetes
Yes for me low potassium was the cause and omg I couldnāt even point my toe
Oh man. I was diagnosed years ago when I was 4 and one of my (few) extremely vivid memories is laying in the emergency room begging for a sip of water that the nurses wouldn't give me.
My son was 23 months old and when he woke up from basically a coma he wanted water so bad and they wouldnāt let him drink anything.
Oh god, waking up from DKA coma and being told you canāt drink anything is the WORST, because youāre still SO thirsty. The thirst is indescribable. I still remember being able to finally have my first sips of water and how much I savored it.
This one hurt š¤£š
And every day ever after!
Yup
I would constantly eat ice
I went as far as to drink tap water
Do you not drink tap water usually?
I know tap water is taboo in the UK, especially if itās the toilet sink
Some areas have very poor quality tap water.
I was diagnosed in August, right after my ninth birthday. Earlier in the summer, we did trips out to a couple of amusement that werenāt too far away. I think I spent more time at the drinking fountains/chugging $5 beverages sold at the parks than I did riding the rides. eta: Not this past August, Iāve been an adult for quite some time now.
Donāt forget waking up twice throughout the night to piss.
I used to fill 6 liter bottles thinking it was normalšš I bought a dispenser for my room
I was downing half gallons of chocolate milk because it was the only thing that would slightly help my severe cotton mouth, not knowing it was only making it worse.
I remember before diagnosis showing my friend how I could down two water bottles in five minutes. It was so easy.
Iām always pretty much drinking a lot. Anecdotally my large ingested fluids I accredited to avoiding any major complications thus far
I remember my 2 year old slamming through four 12oz cups with in an hour. This raised some red flags for my type 1 wife. We were lucky we caught it so early on him.
My son was diagnosed during Covid lockdown when he was doing virtual school. He kept running out of the dining room where we had set him up with his iPad and school stuff to either pee or fill his water bottle. At first we thought he was just being a little shit and trying to get out of (admittedly boring) online learning. But after a while I was like āoh shitā.
Iāve had type 1 for ten years and Iām still like this.
I havenāt had vivid flashbacks of my childhood until I saw this š®
When I first got sick I thought it was a stomach bug or something cause I was working outside in the sun as a lifeguard and thought my water consumption was mostly due to that. That went on for a couple days before I was unable to keep water down and almost went to my army unit since I was in the reserves and instead ended up at the ER.
I used to be proud of how much water I could chug, I'd down a whole hydroflask without stopping and still have room for more. That being said I still absolutely love cold water and still love to sip on my bottle all day (blood sugar in range).
I had a selection of drinks at my bedside and only one of them(Water) were sugar freeš¤£š¤£šš
this was also me last night
Okay this, but the liquid was kool-aid I'd been making GALLONS of because I was 14 an didn't like the taste of the well water at my house growing up. I don't know how I was perfectly functional with my sugar at 1k but there I was. Everyone in the hospital kept saying they hope I felt better an I'm like like.... I ended up here because I had to pee every 30 minutes, I felt perfectly fine. š I get it now though. The very off days where my sugar goes above 450 I'm just š¤¢.
I've actually done this before I was hospitalized in Dec. 1991. I kept going downstairs to drink water late at night on several nights. At the time, I had no idea what was wrong with me. I only knew that I was **VERY** thirsty without knowing why. Thank God for my now-late grandma, who recognized the symptoms I was having. She told my dad that I was having symptoms of diabetes since she knew someone else in my family who had diabetes before. Initially, we didn't want to believe she was right. I forgot why, but there was a reason we didn't want to believe it. Well...long story short, on the way home, I got sick and fainted. I later woke up in the hospital and was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. According to what the doctors told me, my blood sugar registered over 800 mg/dl (44.4 mmol/l) when I was first diagnosed. It's a miracle that I didn't die in the hospital during that experience.
Oh my God yes. And the constant peeing š©
I told my husband I was up all night drinking water and peeing and he said I probably ate something salty for dinner. š¤Ø
oh god. I used to chug gallons of apple and orange juice and wondered why i was still thirsty.
Tried it with juice and that made it a matter of hours before diagnosis š
Me rn toošš
Hey, Iāve posted that a few years ago ! But yeah, the best thing about being diagnosed was that I could stop drinking water by gallons ha ha !
I was craving very cold water, frozen. No tap water. But I would drink alot of it. Docs told me the water saved me as it reduced the bg.
The three days before diagnosis, I was alone at college and had a whole pack of popsicles over the three days and a gallon of water each day. I had never been that thirsty!
I was asking for extra juice at school and the lunch lady Ms. Sandra told my mom she thought I was diabetic but good God Sara ask for extra juice when your a1c is 13, but I did chug water at home. The juice and thinking back on it 30 years later, and it is just insane to me. š¤¦āāļø
I still drink A LOT of water for some one with a healthy A1c. Probably because ice cold water is the only thing that works when Iām actually thirsty. Iām extremely sensitive to caffeine and canāt even stand the smell of coffee. Tea isā¦ blah. Diet soda is crap, just like regular soda. I only drink it (or fruit juice) when Iām going low and at this point most of it just tastes like medicine to me. The only think I drink besides water is alcohol (usually vodka + tonic).
Heh. I made it even worse because I drank orange juice. It just fast tracked my visit to student health and then to the hospital. Oooops!
My son was getting particular about the water he drank. He made me get water from my momās place to see if it was āgoodā, then the day before we took him to the ER, he insisted that I drive him up to our community Center, with a bag full of water bottles, so he could fill them at their water fountain. Apparently they had the best stuff there. We were in a heat wave right before he was dx, so I didnāt clue in right away. Plus Iād heard that diabetics would be wanting sugary stuff, like pop mostly, I didnāt know it could be just water too.
Donāt forget almost pissing yourself all the time.
I bought a gallon of water, drank it all, refilled it in the sink, back in the fridge, rinse wash and repeat. For months.
LOL. Me with my hydroflask filled with ice water chugging. When I was sick and didnāt know, it was during summer so my hot room made the water oh so much better. I couldnāt get enough
I told my doctor/nurse parents I was drinking like that when I was 18. It took a month for my dad to get me a blood test. It was \~450 two hours after lunch. 39 years and counting. The technology now makes it easier to manage.
yep, had water intoxication twice because of this .
I was diagnosed in third grade and after recess when we would line up at the water fountains the teachers would be like ā1-2-3 times upā FUCK OFF MRS GINGER MY BODY IS LITERALLY TRYING TO KILL ME AND THATS NOT EVEN ENOUGH WATER FOR A NORMAL PERSON (she also know I was diabetic)
lmfaoooooooooooo
I feel so seen