Guest guest Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 , I jsut wanted to let you that diagnosing diabetes is often not as simple as just checking your blood sugar a time or two. While a blood sugar of 81 is great, 68 is actually a little low. When I first began having problems with blood sugar back in Oct 02 (three months after the acute panc attacks returned), my blood sugar did not go high, it only went low. I had to make sure that I ate every two hours when I was awake or my blood sugar would drop down to the 50's or even 40's. Thank goodness my mom (who was diagnosed with type II diabetes about 20 years ago) recognized my low blood sugar symptoms and made me start checking my blood sugar. For several weeks, my blood sugar never went high and as long as I made sure that I did not go longer than two hours without eating, it usually didn't go low. However, in time, it did begin going high and as the weeks went by, my highest high blood sugar got higher and higher. Of course, being put on prednisone for my liver disease did not help the diabetes at all! After I was diagnosed with diabetes in January and the doc sent me to a dietician, the dietician told me that it is VERY common for diabetes to begin with sometimes months or years of only having problems with low blood sugar before it progressed to the point of high blood sugar. I would recommend that you consider getting a blood sugar monitor and checking your blood sugar twice a day for a couple of months. I may be overreacting but I think you should at least consider that. W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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