diabetes

how do you know if you have diabetes, other than going to a doctor? what are some symptoms or signs? it does run in my family, and i'm overweight. the reason i ask is because sometimes i feel funny, just not right. sometimes i get dizzy, but i don't know if that's vertigo. and sometimes i feel kinda shaky, and weak. i don't know what it is. i should probably see a doctor but i really hate going to doctors!
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meme

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Check this site out ...

http://www.yourdiagnosis.com/start.htm

Good Luck but you really should see a doctor to confirm for your own health and welfare.

Smoody

I have been diabetic since I was 25. I guess I am still in a little bit of denial but I am not all that well controlled.

USUALLY, symptoms of diabetes is that you're always thirsty, tired, mood swings, chronic yeast infections, blurred vision, etc.

If you know anyone diabetic try using their meter 1 hour after eating or first thing in the morning. Anything over 150 after eating is too high.

Go to your doctor!!! They have a test called Hemoglobin A1C that can tell what your sugars have been running over a 3 month period.

I am great at giving advice when it comes to diabetes...just not following my own advice. Right now I am battling a broken foot that won't heal because of the diabetes. I think I am now starting see that I should have taken this more seriously.

Diabetes runs in my family as well, I was the first to get it in mine...my dad was just diagnosed last year because he went into diabetic shock in his truck 900 miles from home...scary!!!

Sockerwidow

thanks everyone! i might sound like a hypochondriac  but i'm concerned about my 13 year old daughter. she has the same symptoms as i do and oh my goodness she is ALWAYS thirsty! she gets up every single night at like 1:00 or 2:00 and guzzles a whole can of pop. i keep telling her to drink water, and she does if we have the bottled water in the house. so i think we should both see a doctor. yesterday she got sick all of a sudden, she said she felt weak and shaky. she had to lie down. within like half an hour it was gone. so, i told her we need to both go in and get checked. thanks again for all the replies.

meme

Keep us posted!!!!

Guzzling soda only makes your sugars go even higher!!!!! Drink water!!! Also, a sign is frequent urination at night....I know when mine are high!!! LOL

Sockerwidow

no symptoms

Well, my type 2 diabetes started about 5 years ago, best I can tell. The doc I was seeing periodically ... about every other year, didn't take the basic blood info ... just singular hormone to see if I was in menopause (dah, I had had no periods for a couple of years)

So really I don't know when it started.

But I have no symptoms. (However, in my case, I suspect it is a singular late-to-show up birth defect from my dad's WWII exposure to bomb fumes)

When you go to the doctor ask to test for what's going on with your red blood cells since you mention these other symptoms that may be a mild 'chronic fatigue syndrome' Are you tired, irritable? Check for any flu-like symptoms as it can be an exposure to a chemical I suspect for causing most diabetes & CFIDS. And look for blood in urine & everything that is going on with hormones/glands

If you're dealing with what I'm concerned about, you can't just go to the doctor & get answers. The EGBE chemical has been fooling the medical profession for 7 decades if not longer.

Margaret

 
 
Water and Bones don't Heal?

Just a couple more thoughts:

Water ... this is the way you need to drink your water: 2 glasses guzzled when you first get up. Two glasses when you brush your teeth.  Two glasses at 10AM; 2 glasses at 4 pm and don't drink water before going to bed or you will be getting up at night & loosing the best rest. Don't drink water a lot at meals because it dilutes your digestive juices (Soda? skip it; or try to limit it to no more than one a day)

You must have good nutrition & learn about glyconutrients. They are a help to anyone dealing with autoimmune issues, and that's about 28% of the population per research of the govt

Again, I suspect diabetes is not the primary or root cause of harm. It is a side effect of what a very common chemical exposure can do. I harp on this in recent years since I learned about it. It is 2-butoxyethanol that should be suspect for causing such and which causes bones to not heal and kidneys to fail & liver, etc.

Margaret

High bad cholesterol is another thing that this autoimmune causing chemical can do

11-22-05

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