Re: Couple of interesting questions

[Guest guest]

#1 - Could be a fever in the night too; the doctor is the one who will

be able to do tests and give a diagnosis.

#2 - Don't look to the vanilla, look to the amount of physical labor you

did, sensitizing you to insulin and using up the bg in your blood.

#2 - With diabetes your cells are starving and sending messages for

food. The brain interprets this as a desire for fast acting carbs.

Helen

[Guest guest]

Responding to your first question -- Type 1 juvenile diabetes

comes on " explosively " -- very suddenly. It can come on from one day to

the next.

Is your " cousin " suddenly drinking lots and lots of water? (Even

getting up in the middle of the night to do so?) Has she been urinating

more than usual? Has she lost weight? Has she complained of stomach

aches or feeling sick? If the answer is yes to any of these, she should

get to the doctor ASAP.

Vicki

Couple of interesting questions

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> Hi folks:

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> Just had a few questions pop up rciently, I wanted to ask your

> opinions on.

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> My 4 year old...uh cousion I think (hard to tell at times how people

> are related to you . is a twin (Faternial) and she's awaking at

> times with cold sweats, and other things that suggest a bit that she's

> coming down with diabeties. This sounded very much like hypo in the

> night. But I'm not sure. How fast does T1 come onto children, or is it

> possible it's a form of T2? We already suggested she get a

> neurological test, and diabeties test done. I'll have call and see

> what's come of that.

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> #2 a week or so ago, I was out working, and all I had all afternoon

> was a diet vanilla pepsi to work on. Well do you know my BG at 4pm was

> 85??? It's almost NEVER that low, and I have to stuggle to keep it

> down normally in the afternoon with suppliments, and regular eating.

> Any idea here? I've checked around already to see if there is any

> evidence that vanilla is a insulan mimic, or sensitizer. No clue yet.

> Wonder also who I can alert to have this checked?

>

> #3 I was talking to one of my clients who was a recient diagnosed

> diabetic. Somehow our conversation got on the topic of carb cravings.

> (she was a low-carber too.) She told me that all her life she wasn't a

> sweet lover, mostly a protein/veggies/nuts type person. Then suddently

> she started having loads of carb cravings. Exactly as I was. I can

> remember about 10 years ago, regularly skipping desert, and going for

> another helping of something; veggies, meats, etc. Rarely did I eat

> sweets. Then about 4 or so years ago, I started having having major

> sweet, and carb cravings.

>

> Thoughts?

>

[Guest guest]

My daughter's came on slowly. If that had not been the case I think

she would have died. Looking back I think her's was brought on by a

virus at age 7 weeks. I had her to the doctor with so many different

complaints that I think (of course don't know( that they had in her

record that her problem was a neurotic mother. Then it grew to

suspected child abuse. That took 9 years. After we encountered a

doctor smart enough to do something he looked back over her record,

which he had since birth, and said he did not find a single blood

glucose test but that reading her record it should have been

diagnosed long ago. By the time she was diagnosed I suspect she

would not have lived much longer. She ate almost nothing and that

may be why she survived. But it can come on suddenly.

If you have test materials and could test him a couple times that is

one thing you could do. Test fasting and after a high carb meal.

Personally I am against the normal glucose tolerance test.

Betty

> Responding to your first question -- Type 1 juvenile

diabetes

> comes on " explosively " -- very suddenly. It can come on from one

day to

> the next.

>