Warning warning, do you run to the restroom often, are you thirsty all the time

hi book1962 you are right not everybody does have those symptoms'and I think thats why diabetes is called the silent killer, some people dont know that they have it til they get sick with something else, I know i didnt and yet there are symtoms that do show in a lot of people. Ihad '
that silly earache and the doctor found the old blood test.

wish I had had real symptoms. the only thing that happened was when in the evening I sat here working online a bit and started laughing about something and the next thing I remember is me on the floor telling my husband to please let me sleep. I had collapsed obviously and when I was awake enough I reached up for the box with the jelly gum bears and that was the moment I knew I could be diabetic.

hi book that made me think of a stupid thing I did at work once.we had a box of mixed donuts, well I was already a diabetic so should have known better but I ate three of them.three. well I just sat there, I was so sleepy and could not even stand up. they would come in and ask are you all right. I would grin and sleep. so the boss c ame in and told 'carol the second in command to drive me to my apartment just two blocks away. I got home and went into a cold sweat, I had crashed from superhigh to too low, down to 40o so my husband, smart man, made me drink an eight ounce glass of coca cola and soon I was about one hundred. but that really scared me,so i never did that again.

hi Hatley, sounds familiar. Happens to me on weekends most of the time cause I am doing paid mails and mylotting and forget the time and also good eating habits. lol The problem here is that I dont really recognise it when the blood sugar is going down but I realise when its somewhere about 40-60 and then I really speed up to get into the kitchen and get me some good quick carbs.
I know when its nearing the 40-50 cause then I get sort of restless. Hubby notices it too and then asks me when did you eat something proper last time.

yes I dont shake anymore when its low but my vision starts to get spots in front of my eyes so then I check and take some candy or four ounces of orange juice

I once had these vision spots too, it was quite funny. In fact at that time I tried to read something from a users manual to my husband and suddenly I couldnt read any more and only saw these spots.
Luckily my boss who is a diabetic too though using insulin, had told me that with about 60 he wont be able to see clearly so I raced to my room and got me the glucometer........

If there aren't always symptoms, then we should all be conscious of our sugar intake. This really made me worry because I love sweets. I thought that my body must be in good shape because I'm not having any symptoms of diabetes, but I wasn't aware that sometimes there could be no symptom at all.

yes at times I have heard that there arent any real symptoms but I think a lot of times people do have symptoms but they
attribute them to other causes so we all should have
ourselves checked for diabetes occasionally just to be
safe.

hi Hatley the only thing that could have been a symptom here was my tiredness but with a life of getting up at 4 am then commuting to work 4 hours by train and working 6 hours full speed and commuting the same 4 hours back home I thought its normal that I am always tired and only want my sleeeeeep. lol

hi book1962 you need sleep not worry about diabetes, of course
would be tired, commuting is just such a chore. I once fell asleep coming back from work and woke up at the end of the line one town past where I wanted to get off.the conductor was very sweet and let me ride back for free. I did get a nice nap.lol lol

hi Hatley fortunately my inner clock works fine and I never was too late to get off the train at my destination.

hI book1962 it was so weird how I found out I had diabetes Ihad been going to this little clinic sponsored by Irvine medical center using interns,well the vietnamese doctor was replaced by a new doctor and I had gone to this new doctor with an ear ache. he said,mrs. Hatley I can give you antibiotics for your ear, but did you know you have diabetes? I was floored, I had had no idea and the test had been on my records for at least six months. Looking back I remembered I had beendrinking a lot of water and going to the bathroom a lot, and just blaming it on the water, also my eyes kept blurring. so I did get busy, lost fifty pounds and was taken off all medications. now I am back again at much too
heavy.

hi Hatley I also lost a bit of weight only 14 pounds or so and half of it came back. But my doctor said as long as the blood sugar and all the other blood parameters are okay no need to worry.

hi yes my doctor just recently told me that just fifteen percent
of your overweight if you lose it will help to control it.my problem is my sweet tooth and my self control shame on me. I
know now that I c an do it.

hi kitty I am feeling pretty good. I am glad you were cleared.it'is just so easy to have the tests and then you know you are okay. I
'think I had been getting up a lot to go the bathroom but I never
associated it with diabetes. then after I learned I had it I found that my mom had had diabetes for years and hid the fact. she could have helped me so much had she told me as I would have changed the way I ate and the way I thought about exercising and overweight too.

Hello my friend

Wow, My mom has high blood pressure and I do as well, I don't think we have anyone with diabetes in the immediate family, but high blood pressure yes, when they told me I did not have it I was really happy, my neighbor and a few of her family members have it, she use to tell me all the time to get checked, so when I did I was really happy.her nephew use to get sick alot and her daughter would come get me to help him, you know how you can be in the midst of something then come to find out it happens to you, well this was not the case and I am really happy, he suffers so much its really scary.

Thanks my friend, great discussion.

hi kitty I am so happy you found you do not have
diabetes, as so many people have it and do not'
even know they have it until they start having
side effects.

Hello my friend

Thank you so much, I am really happy as well, so many others around have this terrible illness I was really pleased with my results

Thank you so much.

oh I found out to day that I can exercise here in my room for ten minutes at a time four or five times and keep my blood sugar level right where it belongs. this is great. I dont have to walk ten miles just exercise here.

Hello my friend

That is great my friend, is there a chance to reverse this, or is this something you have to live with? I can't remember, I know you can control your blood pressure not sure about this, this is really hard this one guy I know does not do what has to be done to maintain his health its really sad.

Thank you my friend.

no not now kitty if I had known when that vietnamese intern has that blood test on my chart I might have been able to but it was too late when the new intern came. but I have learned to cope with it and to live as normal a life as anyone else. Just have to be careful what I eat and most of us should do that anyway.

Hello my friend

Understandable my friend, the guy I know has the worse case but does not do what needs to be done to stay healthy, when I was living near by this guy was sick all the time, not sure why he is not taking care of himself its really sad my friend.

Thank you.

hi kitty I am great now.I know some people think if they do not pay any attention to the diabetes it will just somehow magically go away. but it just does not work like that.

hi riysasm yes it is and the symtoms are so common that most of'us wou ld think we had just drank too much water, or had not drank 'enough'and would never have thought of going to a doctor to be checked out.

hi suspenseful that really should be put into the list of symtoms as for a lot of us that is one of the first symptoms. I tried so hard before I was finally diagnosed and nothing ever helped. well then when this doctor found my test and told me, he put me on glyburide and suggested I lose as much weight as I could.well I worked my butt off and exercised one hour every day and walked for thirty minutes and my blood sugar came way down,and I did lose weight.so much that he took me off the pills and my blood pressure med and I just controlled my diabetes by what I ate and daily exercise, then my husband died unexpectedly. I went into an emotional tailspin,put on a lot of weight and my blood glucose went up,so back I went onto medications and the whole bit, and pretty much I have stayed that way. my overweight is a constant bugaboo for me.Are you able to lose any weight now? hope so suspense take care.

The trouble is even with the glyburide and trying to cut down, I could not lose weight. Then I read somewhere that the reason could be that we are no longer eating grass fed meat and I remembered that my own grandmother ate a lot of suet and fatty meats and lard and yet she never gained, so I started to add chromium to my diet more then what is in the vitamin and mineral pills. I find that they just have the minimum and even with the high potency which is the ones I take, it is not enough. So I have been closing weight and my blood sugar is down. I am also looking for foods that will lower my blood sugar because well, my doctor is sort of a pill pusher.

hi suspensful you just reminded me of something Ihad
forgotten and could use right now. I have been'struggling
lately with keeping my blood sugar down and having
a bad time of it, chromium,my g. our diabetes educator
told us about how it helps so much and I have forgotten
'all about that, now to get come chromium.

I have enough for a week and I would have gotten some today but my husband wanted me to get a picnic shoulder and I hate all that salt. So I will probably get some next week or when we go out tomorrow, stop in at a drug store and pick some up. It really does help me a lot.

And thanks for the best response. I did find that when I just took the medicine the doctor reocmmended it did not lower my blood sugar enough so that if there was a social event, I could have taken a brownie or two. So the chromium does help.

hi suspenseful ah my friends all tell me that it works too
so am going to buy some chromium and take it for myself,
as I could use some more help. I am trying to be good
but sometimes I get a bit high. but borderline or plain
diabetes you will have it always but with the proper food
and or medication you can keep you blood glucose at a normal
level and live as long as anyone else, and enjoy your life.
diabetes can not be cured but it can be kept at a good level.
for me my weight is the thing that is keeping me from perfect control,if I can just lose fifteen per cent of the amount I am '
overweight my doctor says I will once again have very good control. just wish they would tell us just how to do all this. lol

I do think diabetes is a disease of omission that you get it because you are lacking something in your diet. I do have a couple if diabetic books one I borrowe3d and one I bought and the food suggestions and herbal medicines they suggest are things that grow in sub tropical countries and I am including around the Mediterranean since I believe I have some ancient Roman in me. And when your ancestors move to a country where they do not have those herbs or foods available, that their bodies are going to suffer. That is why they say that Latinos who originally came from the Mediterreans and African Americans whose ancestors came from the AFrica that have longer growiings seasons are more likely to get diabetes. Now those Latinos are also not only part native Americans but also part from the Mediterranean so they are more likely to get diabetes unless they are able to get the foods they had at home.
So I feel if you eat a Meditteranean diet, you will get rid of your diabetes. It is not set in stone. It is just that you have to eat a certain way, the way that your ancestors ate.
I suppose people who have always lived in the North and whose ancestors had always lived in Northern climates have other disease to contend with.

I have just bought some zinc with some other things added and
am going to try it. also I do not remember who the doctor was
now that was really for the mediterrean diet but it does sound
like it makes good sense. it is hard for me here as I have no control over what they serve me but of course I can just not eat some of the high carb things or at least cut back on them.

That is a good idea. If you have to eat what is put on your plate, at least you can leave the high carb stuff at the side and after a while they will get the idea that you really want to eat healthier food. The trouble is that some people seem to think more of their pocket books then their health.

hi zandi yes its not a happy type of disease but it can be lived with and we have so much more information now. as for msg I am horribly'allergic to it and ate at a chinese restaurant once. I came out and got really dizzy, went into the drugstore where the owner knew me, and he called the paramedics. they had to give me an IV of anti allergic medication as I was hardly able to breathe. now i have to ask at any chinese restaurant before I eat, is there msg in your food>?They told me the stuff could kill me as I was highly allergic to it.Some restaurants now show a sign that shows whether or not they use msg. the only time I eat candy or sugary colas is if I have really low blood sugar. I learned the hard way.

I am not that bad. I am on the border line and as for allergies, besides nickel, I cannot take too much soy or I get a stomach ache. The trouble is that there are lots of people who ate candies when kids and they did not get it. I mean it is upsetting to hear about those skinny people who ate so much candy or those who had naturally good teeth.

hi suspenseful yes doesn't it just fry you that skinny people will stuff themselves with all the goodies you and I would'
love but cannot eat and I sometimes wonder if they know
that if they are doing this because they are the opposite, people with low blood sugar, that a lot of people who suffer with low blood sugar will eventually be diabetics,this is a proven fad

hi catla1 yes one thing we should not play around with our health and diabetes can be lived with, if diagnosed and treated daily. left 'alone it can ruin your eyes, your heart, and just make'youfeel dreadful every day. It does not take long to get tested and know that you either haVE it or you are okay.

@Hatley thnkx for the discussion and notification of this silent but deadly deases.
But could symptoms like,cant stay siting for 10-15 minutes without doezing off,and always feeling easly tired when you've just don a little hadwork.be part of diabeties symptoms.

Hi Blaizer! Frequently dozing off and tiredness of dizzyness could be symptoms of many things, including heart disease problems and thyroid issues in addition to the diabetes. Could also be as simple as an iron deficiency. It's important to be diagnosed by a doctor, as none of these possibilities is age specific. Almost all could be equally deadly if not treated.

thanks for the info you gave to the user above as you
are right on the ball with that. she should go to'
her doctor as falling asleep like that cou ld be'from
any number of things and most of us mylotters are
'not doctors so she needs to see a real life one.

Us MyLotters...we're all family. Or e-family...lol. We have to look out for each other and keep our family safe and healthy.

I was falling asleep just now while typing and know its because I ate two bowls of strawberry ice cream, I let my tablemate talk me into this indiscretion as I am a diabetic, and she is too.so why does she do this to me a nd why do I take it from her,shame on me.

hi fwidman sounds to me like you are just fine
if you were horribly thirsty like even just
picturing a huge pitcher of water I would
say run don't walk to your doctor.

fortuna that is something I should have mentioned.funny that'same thing cost me fifty dollars over what my insurance paid awhile back.they thought maybe because I had some numbness of my tongue and my blood sugar was low maybe I was having a mini stroke so sent me to the er, and come to find out no stroke,that was great, but a very serious UTI, and I did not even know it as a diabetic you have the same darned symptoms. but once put on a really potent antibiotic it only took a few days to feel great again. I think mine was just a bladder infection but the ER doctor said no matter it is serious and be sure to drink a lot of water too.

tattylashes you must go to your doctor and get a cat
scan or whateverit was they gave as you sure sound'like
the way I was when I had a gall bladder attack, and
it will not go away. so get checked to be sure, make
the doc listen to you okay.

hi ElicBxn well I hate to alarm you but a goodly number of
people who get diagnosed with diabetes had low blood sugar'for a long time before they came down with full blown diabetes, so
it is great to keep being checked on it. I started out with'low
blood sugar down to even getting the shakes from it.

well, like I said - I've been tested and tested, and if I eat right I don't have the low blood sugar,

I just had a blood test in early Sept and my cholesterol was down, and obviously they didn't find diabetes either - and I'm more over weight than my mother ever got and 15 yrs older than when she became borderline diabetic

hi elicbxn my doctor told me that if you can control your'weight and even just lose say fifteen percent of what you are overweight that people can keep from even getting diabetes so it does pay to lose a little weight. I did not know this when I found myself diagnosed with diabetes, so much info now that really helps people to avoid the disease.

and they say the only "cure" for adult onset diabetes is extreme weight lost like the bypass surgery

at least if one loses just fifteen percent then you can be in control and still live just as normal a life as anyone else.
as for the surgery thing, you must be grossly overweight to
be let into that program,and it has a lot of dangers in it, a lot of people come out okay,but they do not tell of the ones who die from complications and there are a lot of them. I would rather lose my weight the old fashioned way myself.

true, and even if my insurance covered it, I'm just borderline weighing enough

Honestly, my roomie has been over weight since she was a teen, and I've seen how her family eat, so she really doesn't have any idea how a normal meal should look like.

I at least know how much I should be eating, just I've been influenced by all the people around me over eating...

hi ElicBxn its hard to keep yourself from overeating when others
around you are all pigging out.When I first came to Gold Crest Ijust ate all of whatever I was served and oh my my blood sugar was way too high. my doctor told me you have to get this down, so what I do now is cut the portion of high carb food in half and most of the time this really works. I am not working hard so I do not need all those extra calories and perhaps I will lose some needed weight.