• Rowsdower@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    How was diabetes not one of the best things they checked? I had an “unexplained weight loss” diagnosis for a while and diabetes and hiv were some of the first things they asked me about/tested for

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      1 year ago

      I was recovering from extended time with undiagnosed Celiac. I assumed it was related to that. My symptoms seemed a lot like what I experienced with Celiac, but I was so stringently gluten free that I couldn’t figure out what was happening. The doctor i saw was a celiac specialist - and he was great at that - but I needed a more general doctor or an endocrinologist. On the last day of 2 weeks there, after all these esophagus tests, allergists, a dermatologist and the psychologist, he said “It could be Type 1 Diabetes… some people get that too”. Then didn’t order a blood test or do anything.