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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could also be diabetes [/quote]

No way could he go a year with type 1. [/quote]
My brother has what they now call “Type 1 1/2” diabetes. In his thirties he had unexplained weight loss. It got to the point where he was ordering two entrees when we’d go out to dinner and eating it all and he still weighed the same as in high school. He felt crappy and was tired all the time. He was way too skinny and we were really scared. We begged him to see a doctor as there was obviously something wrong. He refused and would get angry. This went on for a couple years.

One day he passed out at work. He worked for a large company that employed a nurse. She took his blood sugar. The reading was in the hundreds; he literally was at the top of the scale that her device could measure. He was immediately sent by ambulance to the hospital and not allowed to return to work until he had a doctor’s note stating that his diabetes was under control. Metformin helped, but even if he ate virtually nothing, his blood sugar was still pretty high. Eventually he had to start using insulin. His blood sugar is now pretty well controlled and he’s at a healthy weight, but it took years to get to this point.[/quote]

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