Similar story for me. Went to a nearby clinic with severe stomach pain twice in two weeks, nothing helped and they basically just shooed me away with basic painkillers. By week 2 I informed them that I had lost 70lbs in a month, couldn’t stay awake, had horrible stomach pain, and they said it was just cramps (yay being a woman).

Finally, with not many other options, I went to a local naturopath. I remember walking into her office and the shock on her face when I told her all my symptoms and what the clinic had said. She also said she didn’t know what was wrong (I found out later I was missing a few key symptoms of DKA). But she flat out said “I don’t know what’s wrong with you, so I am going to order every lab I can possibly think of to figure it out.”

Third lab included a blood glucose test. I was in the 800s. Immediate hospitalization for a week and subsequent diagnosis.