Diabetes

[jj2]

Symptoms

Fatigue
You may feel fatigued. The factors that can contribute to this include dehydration from increased urination and your body's inability to function properly, since it's unable to use sugar for energy.

Unquenchable Thirst:
If it feels like you can't get enough water and you're drinking much more than usual, it could be a sign of diabetes, especially if it seems to go hand in hand with frequent urination. If your body is pulling extra water out of your blood and you're running to the bathroom more, you will become dehydrated and feel the need to drink more to replace the water that you are losing.

Weight loss
Weight fluctuations. When you lose sugar through frequent urination, you also lose calories. At the same time, diabetes may keep the sugar from your food from reaching your cells — leading to constant hunger. The combined effect is potentially rapid weight loss, especially if you have type 1 diabetes.

Blurred vision
High levels of blood sugar pull fluid from your tissues, including the lenses of your eyes. This affects your ability to focus.
Left untreated, diabetes can cause new blood vessels to form in your retina — the back part of your eye — as well as damage old vessels. For most people, these early changes do not cause vision problems. However, if these changes progress undetected, they can lead to vision loss and blindness.

Slow-healing sores or frequent infections
Doctors and people with diabetes have observed that infections seem more common if you have diabetes. Not proven but it may be that high levels of blood sugar impair your body's natural healing process and your ability to fight infections. For women, bladder and vaginal infections are especially common.

Tingling hands and feet
Excess sugar in your blood can lead to nerve damage. You may notice tingling and loss of sensation in your hands and feet, as well as burning pain in your arms, hands, legs and feet.

Red, swollen, tender gums

Weakens your ability to fight germs.

More info:
Top Warning Signs of Diabetes - Diabetes Symptoms - Symptoms of Diabetes

 

[jj2]

What is Diabetes?

Mellitus Type 1: Diabetes mellitus type 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mellitus Type 2: Diabetes mellitus type 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[jj2]

It’s somewhat ironic that coffee may protect you from getting diabetes, but once you have diabetes, it’s not exactly helpful. Caffeine does appear to have some other beneficial health effects, such as protecting against Parkinson disease and gallstones, along with increasing your alertness, improving your mood, and treating headaches. Yet, the downside is that it may increase the risk of infertility, miscarriage, and birth defects, and it can interfere with sleep and even trigger migraines. Caffeine—friend or foe?

http://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/Blog/Amy-Campbell/caffeine_friend_or_foe_part_2/

 

[jj2]

Nicotine Raises Blood Sugar

"With each puff of a cigarette, a smoker pulls nicotine into his or her lungs where it is absorbed into the blood. In eight seconds, nicotine is in the brain, changing the way the brain works. This process happens so fast because nicotine is shaped like the natural brain chemical acetylcholine. Acetylcholine is one of many chemicals called neurotransmitters that carry messages between brain cells. Neurons have special spaces called receptors, into which specific neurotransmitters can fit, like a key fitting into a lock. Nicotine locks into acetylcholine receptors in different parts of the brain, rapidly causing changes in the body and brain. Nicotine raises the heart rate and respiration (breathing) rate, and causes more glucose, or blood sugar, to be released into the blood."

Whether you smoke or vape, to protect yourself, check, check, check, your blood sugar levels.

The good news, as some of you already know, is that Vaping is better than smoking.

"While inhaling a cigarette, smokers are pulling more than nicotine into their lungs. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals. Besides nicotine, the most dangerous chemicals in cigarette smoke are tar and carbon monoxide. Tar causes lung cancer, emphysema, and bronchial diseases. Carbon monoxide causes heart problems; smokers are at high risk for heart disease."

Nicotine - What are the common street names for nicotine on MedicineNet

 

[jj2]

Gestational Diabetes occurs only during pregnancy.

It can cause high blood sugar levels that are unlikely to cause problems for you, but can threaten the health of your unborn child.

You can manage gestational diabetes by eating healthy foods, exercising regularly and, in some cases, taking medication. To give your baby a healthy start, take good care of yourself.

Fortunately, gestational diabetes is usually short-lived. Blood sugar levels typically return to normal soon after delivery.

 

[gramakittycat]

Insulin Resistant Diabetes.....Diagnosed with type 2 DM in 2002 I went from diet and pills to trying almost every kind of insulin .My blood sugars high 200's to just over 500 but I have no symtoms even when the bs gets so high.My current insulin is Lantus which the Dr. and I have increased to my current dose to 200 u. 1x a day.The fasting bs for me has never been less than 250.Still trying though!GKK/SueWhen I still was an R.N. they called patients like me train wrecks.LOL.........NOT!!!!

 

[jj2]

glucose will take one of three pathways into the body. Irrespective of the route through which glucose is directed in the body, it will be metabolized into energy in the same fashion. While it is commonly stated that the body "burns" its stored carbohydrates, the actual chemical process has an additional component. No matter where the glucose is stored, when it is used it creates a compound known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is the actual energy source within the body.
The first and most direct route into the body for recently converted glucose from the small intestine is the bloodstream, where glucose is immediately available to be converted into ATP, in combination with the oxygen received into the bloodstream from the cardiorespiratory system.
The second repository for glucose is the skeletal muscle system. Glucose is converted into its storage form, glycogen, which is a long string of single sugars stored as a starch, a complex sugar. Once stored in the muscles, glycogen cannot be released into the bloodstream, but will be utilized as fuel to produce ATP by the muscle itself.
The most important storage mechanism of processed glucose is performed by the liver. As the largest organ in the body, the liver performs a number of purifying and metabolic functions within the body, one of which is to store glucose in its glycogen form. The liver is capable of containing up to 10% of its volume in glycogen, in contrast to the 1% storage by volume carried on in the skeletal muscles. The liver both releases glycogen when it is needed for energy production, as well as regulates the amount of glucose present in the blood, critical to health (known as the blood sugar level).
The process by which liver glycogen is converted into blood glucose is related to the actions of the pancreas, which monitors blood glucose levels. When the pancreas determines that blood glucose levels are too low, causing a condition known as hypoglycemia, the pancreas produces a hormone, glucagen, to stimulate a release of stored glycogen from the liver, in the form of glucose, into the blood to restore balance. When blood glucose levels are too high, which is, conversely, a hyperglycemic condition, the pancreas releases the hormone insulin to stimulate the liver to release less glucose. Impaired insulin production in the pancreas is the essence of the condition known as diabetes.

Carbohydrate Stores: Muscle Glycogen, Liver Glycogen, and Glucose - exercise - World of Sports Science

 

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Blood Glucose Monitoring: When to Check and Why by Rebecca K. Abma

Managing diabetes is one part investigation and two parts action. Unlike some other diseases that rely primarily on professional medical treatment, diabetes treatment requires active participation by the person who has it. Monitoring your blood glucose level on a regular basis and analyzing the results is believed by many to be a crucial part of the treatment equation…

Blood Glucose Monitoring: When to Check and Why :: Diabetes Self-Management

 

[jj2]

JDRF fight against diabetes!!!

This is being done for my granddaughter and (kids & adults) who suffer from diabetes.
If not for this reason do it for someone you know and love that is diabetic!!!

So, if you give to charities, please consider giving to the JDRF. My granddaughter and diabetics everywhere have already benefited tremendously from JDRF-funded research, and are at the cusp of some very important breakthroughs.

If you live in the Raleigh area, please also consider joining in the scheduled walk, or, if you can't be there in person, sign up to be a "virtual walker"---let you fingers to the walking.
Either way, you will be adding your name to a list that will show my granddaughter Trini that other people want to see her free from the day-to-day burden of living with Type 1 Diabetes, free from the life-altering complications that even well-controlled diabetics can suffer, and free from being different.

Please visit Trini and join our team. Please donate what you can. Please forward this link to friends and family.

Please. We need your help.

 

[Fudgey]

The link doesn't work....am I missing something?

 

[jj2]

Well crap !

 

[jj2]

JDRF fight against diabetes!!!

This is being done for my granddaughter and (kids & adults) who suffer from diabetes.
If not for this reason do it for someone you know and love that is diabetic!!!

So, if you give to charities, please consider giving to the JDRF. My granddaughter and diabetics everywhere have already benefited tremendously from JDRF-funded research, and are at the cusp of some very important breakthroughs.

If you live in the Raleigh area, please also consider joining in the scheduled walk, or, if you can't be there in person, sign up to be a "virtual walker"---let you fingers to the walking.
Either way, you will be adding your name to a list that will show my granddaughter Trini that other people want to see her free from the day-to-day burden of living with Type 1 Diabetes, free from the life-altering complications that even well-controlled diabetics can suffer, and free from being different.

Please visit Trini and join our team. Please donate what you can. Please forward this link to friends and family.

Please. We need your help.

 

[jj2]

It would be great if you became a virtual walker!!!

 

[Fudgey]

Thanks!! I will do this!!!

 

[jj2]

Fixed in the other post too.

And thank you Fudgey!!!

 

[classwife]

Got you set up in TWR too !

 

[jj2]

Thank you Classy

 

[Fudgey]

Done....

 

[jj2]

Thanks again!!!!!! & I will make sure they know you are!!!

 

[Sea Wolf]

Are there any diabetes threads in the "W&B private area" ?