Why hello, diabetes

Well, not me, but my husband has diabetes.

We learned this about a week and a half ago. He has been experiencing some pretty serious fatigue in the past few months (sleeping 18 hours a day) and then started experiencing some pretty serious dry mouth symptoms. After a week of dry mouth, and peeing every hour from having to constantly drink to have enough wetness in his mouth to not go insane, he agreed to go to the doctor. Here is how it went

Doctor: You are stressed out and this is all in your head.
Us : Well, he's not really stressed right now. Are you sure there is nothing wrong or anything you can give him?
Doctor : No, it's just stress and there is nothing I can give. Well, here, take some anti-anxiety medication to help. It will go away on it's own.
Us : Will you at least run some bloodwork to test for thyroid or diabetes or if his hormones are off?
Doctor : Fine, but I'm 100% sure they will come back fine, because it's just stress.

30 minutes later we get a call from the doctor, telling us to come back in immediately. The blood test came back that Scott had a blood sugar of 650 and he needed to retest. Scott retested using a hand-held monitor and got a reading of 550.

Now for those who aren't in the know, a normal sugar reading is around 80 - 140. The doctor actually said that Scott would have gone into a diabetic coma if we had waited another few days. He was given an immediate shot of insulin and away we went. (You know, because it's just stress, and all in his head. Safe to say, we switched doctors)

It has now been about a week and a half, and he is doing much better. He is on 40 units of Lantis per day (a long lasting insulin) as well as taking about 4 units of Humalog (a fast acting insulin) with meals. It was a rough first few days, but now his sugars range from 80-150 and he is feeling a ton better.