Re: Loes/diabetes

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Loes,

I know your question on diabetes was directed to , but I'll tell you how it started for me. Out of the blue one day, I felt very shaky, clammy, and confused, almost like I was drunk. My mom recognized the symptoms. She is a type 2 diabetic (never been overweight and very active). She didn't have her blood sugar monitor with her that day, but the very same thing happened the next day. We checked my blood sugar and it was 52. Low, but not necessarily dangerously low. This was in Oct. If I didn't eat every two hours, my blood sugar would drop and I felt like crap. My doctor thought it was just a temporary thing since I had been very sick since July. He told me to eat every two hours and monitor my blood sugar. At first, my blood sugar only went low, it didn't go too high. However, in about a month or so, it started going both high and low. At first, the high would only be around 150, but steadily the highest high kept getting higher until it crept up to 324. It was regularly going to 200-250 and often there was no correlation to what I had eaten. I could eat a perfectly balanced meal and have my blood sugar go too high and other times I could eat a meal that really contained more sugar than was good for me and my blood sugar would be perfect. I met with a nutritionist in November. He, too, thought this might be a temporary thing, but told me to eat as if I were a diabetic and monitor my blood sugar. Basically, eat 3 small meals and 2-3 snacks. Each one should be a balance of protein, carbohydrates, and fat. In the beginning, I was not aware of the importance of balancing the carbs and proteins and once I learned to do that, my blood sugar was better most of the time. However, I was still having times when it went to 200-250, so they sent me to an endocrinologist. I truly expected him to say that this was just a temporary thing and that once my pancreas had a chance to recover from the numerous assaults of the last few months, it would go away. Wrong - he told me I have type 2 diabetes but that it looked like I was already doing all the right things with the exception of adding regular exercise. He said he felt that if I would add 150 minutes per week of exercise, that my diabetes would remain in total control without medication. He said the medications for diabetes are hard on the liver so we need to do everything possible to control my diabetes without meds. Things were going well until the last week or so. My blood sugar is not going as high as it was, but it is regularly going up to 180-200. The bad thing is that I don't notice the symptoms as much when it goes high or low like I did in the beginning because my body has adjusted to the fluctuations. That is both good and bad. It is good because in the beginning, the slightest fluctuation outside the normal range (about 70-140) would make me feel like crap. Lows made me cold, clammy, confused, disoriented. Highs made me very hot, sweaty, agitated. Now, the only thing I notice at all is that I might feel just a little hot when it goes high. So, it's entirely possible that my blood sugar is going high or low more than I realize since I'm only checking it about 2-3 times a day.

Well, I've probably told you more than you wanted to know.

W

[Guest guest]

Well it is good to be informed.

I sometimes find my body acting weard....A while ago a started loosing wheight then I started gaining. I never had that. I am now 120 pounds. For me this is much. I need a new wardrobe, nothing fits me anymore. And I do experience, dizyness every now and than, tiredness and hot and cold flashes and I don't know what is causing this. Sometimes I also need to put something sweet in my mouth. Than everything turns to normal again. But never anything serious as shakes like or blackouts or anything. Next time I see my liverspecialist I will tell him about these things.I never tell him about the little things, his time is little and others need him more than i do. But maybe he has an idea why my body is going crazy sometimes.

Thanks for sharing .

With love Loes, The Netherlands

Re: [ ] Loes/diabetes

Loes,

I know your question on diabetes was directed to , but I'll tell you how it started for me. Out of the blue one day, I felt very shaky, clammy, and confused, almost like I was drunk. My mom recognized the symptoms. She is a type 2 diabetic (never been overweight and very active). She didn't have her blood sugar monitor with her that day, but the very same thing happened the next day. We checked my blood sugar and it was 52. Low, but not necessarily dangerously low. This was in Oct. If I didn't eat every two hours, my blood sugar would drop and I felt like crap. My doctor thought it was just a temporary thing since I had been very sick since July. He told me to eat every two hours and monitor my blood sugar. At first, my blood sugar only went low, it didn't go too high. However, in about a month or so, it started going both high and low. At first, the high would only be around 150, but steadily the highest high kept getting higher until it crept up to 324. It was regularly going to 200-250 and often there was no correlation to what I had eaten. I could eat a perfectly balanced meal and have my blood sugar go too high and other times I could eat a meal that really contained more sugar than was good for me and my blood sugar would be perfect. I met with a nutritionist in November. He, too, thought this might be a temporary thing, but told me to eat as if I were a diabetic and monitor my blood sugar. Basically, eat 3 small meals and 2-3 snacks. Each one should be a balance of protein, carbohydrates, and fat. In the beginning, I was not aware of the importance of balancing the carbs and proteins and once I learned to do that, my blood sugar was better most of the time. However, I was still having times when it went to 200-250, so they sent me to an endocrinologist. I truly expected him to say that this was just a temporary thing and that once my pancreas had a chance to recover from the numerous assaults of the last few months, it would go away. Wrong - he told me I have type 2 diabetes but that it looked like I was already doing all the right things with the exception of adding regular exercise. He said he felt that if I would add 150 minutes per week of exercise, that my diabetes would remain in total control without medication. He said the medications for diabetes are hard on the liver so we need to do everything possible to control my diabetes without meds. Things were going well until the last week or so. My blood sugar is not going as high as it was, but it is regularly going up to 180-200. The bad thing is that I don't notice the symptoms as much when it goes high or low like I did in the beginning because my body has adjusted to the fluctuations. That is both good and bad. It is good because in the beginning, the slightest fluctuation outside the normal range (about 70-140) would make me feel like crap. Lows made me cold, clammy, confused, disoriented. Highs made me very hot, sweaty, agitated. Now, the only thing I notice at all is that I might feel just a little hot when it goes high. So, it's entirely possible that my blood sugar is going high or low more than I realize since I'm only checking it about 2-3 times a day.

Well, I've probably told you more than you wanted to know.

W