Between Feb 18 and March 18th I went from 247lb to 204lb. The weight kept dropping daily. My vision got blurry the last week. I was having to wear magnifier reading glasses. I had insatiable thirst building up to drinking 3.5 gallons of water a day and anything else I could get ahold of. I was peeing full liters every 30 min. I developed dry mouth and had to peel my tongue off the roof to f my mouth to speak. That Friday on my way home 120 mile trip… I stopped to pee 7 times and it was all I could do to get to the shoulder of the road and run around the truck before bursting. Monday morning I threw up violently and laid around all day with a towel on my head. I was severely dehydrated. I went to a walk in clinic and they immediately sent me on to Er. I set in the er for 4 hours. While waiting they took blood. Then it was my turn to get in a room. I explained my symptoms and how I believed I had messed up on my supplements. The NP said, “well your blood says you’re diabetic and you’re in dka.” My blood sugar was 857 and while in the Er it went to over 1000. They started me on fluids and insulin. The Doctor that saw me said that I “was hours… maybe a day from dying.” I was in ICU with round the clock on the hour monitoring. Then got moved to gen pop. I’ve seen an endocrinologist and they are waiting on results to say if I’m type 1 or 2. My dad became diabetic type 2 in 1985 at the age of 40. I was 40 in the hospital. 41 now. Both his brother and sister are type 2. Both diagnosed over 55 at the time. What I’m scared about right now is the link between new onset diabetes and pancreatic cancer. My dad lived with type 2 for 35 years before finding out June 22, 2020 he had stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The statistics don’t lie and with my dad dying from it… I’m worried. I got 5 years to go before my kids are 18. My dad didn’t educate himself on diabetes nor did he take care of his health. In the hospital they said my A1C was level 14 so my average had been 355. Since coming out I have gotten my A1C down to 8.9 and have only had a few spikes into the 200s. I’m disciplined and am watching everything I eat and how my body reacts to it. Ideally I would like to have type 2 bc it can be beat with diet and lifestyle changes. Here is hoping.