What are the common signs of diabetes? What are the signs of Hyperglycermia?
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I sometimes experience sores that won’t heal, and I wake up feeling ill, unless I eat something. I take different medications: Tricor, Benecar, Lipitor, Alprazolam, Hydrocodone, Effexor, and an occasional couple of Alleve, because of the physical nature of my job. What do you think?
I sometimes experience sores that won’t heal, and I wake up feeling ill, unless I eat something. I take different medications: Tricor, Benecar, Lipitor, Alprazolam, Hydrocodone, Effexor, and an occasional couple of Alleve, because of the physical nature of my job. What do you think?
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February 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 am
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Thirstly alot
Peeing alot
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February 6th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Common signs are excessive thirst, weight loss, fatigue, feeling faint,etc. to name a few. Go to Web MD.com for more info. Also, I would review your medications with your Dr. It sounds like you are taking quite a bit.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Sores that won’t heal from diabetes take a long time to form because the blood sugar has to be extremely high for a long period. You’d probably have more obvious symptoms of diabetes before sores would start to show up. The most common symptoms of diabetes (which is the same as hyperglycemia) are excessive thirst, excessive urination, extreme fatigue and weight loss. I’d say you could be having reactions to all the different medicines you’re taking. Does the same doctor prescribe all of them? Do you get them all filled at the same pharmacy? Plus, the conditions you’re taking the medicines for are more likely to cause you to feel ill. Also, feeling ill until you eat something usually comes more from hypoglycemia which is low blood sugar. If you’re worried about diabetes though, have you doctor do a fasting blood glucose tolerance test. Then, you’ll know for sure. Hope that helps.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:03 am
I think you absolutely do not have diabetes.. if you did, you would experience a sudden onset of symptoms that would be very noticible. You would be unbelieveably thirsty ALL the time, and urinate a great deal too.. among others.
Hyperglycemia? Not from your symptoms.. Sores that won’t heal have nothing to do with your listed possible “diseases”. The only one that matches at all is HYPOglycemia and the feeling ill without eating.. but generally you would not feel ill, you’d be really weak and possibly pass out. I do think that the feeling ill in the morning is from all your meds though.
I do not think you have a disease, however I do notice that you take a LOT of medications. I don’t know what the reasons are for taking them, but, if possible, I’d advise you to cut back (obviously unless they’ve been prescribed for specific medical conditions).
I’d say just do your best on the cutting back of meds, and relax a bit.. don’t ‘go looking’ for symptoms.
If you’re super worried, or any of your symptoms start to get a lot worse, make an appt. with your family doctor just to be sure.
Good luck!
February 11th, 2009 at 5:27 am
It’s hard to tell from what you wrote, not enough info. Feeling ill until you eat could be.
“Funkch…”’s answer is horrible, she is way off base. The symptoms don’t start all of the sudden, as the disease does not start off of the sudden. She does not know what she is talking about. To me, “…feeling weak and possibly passing out..” IS feeling ill.
Bottom line, you don’t have enough info. Get the pre-diabetes test and ask your doctor about your concerns. Like any other disease, catching as early as you can is important. You may be able to ‘avoid’ it if you are not yet Diabetic, but change your diet.
February 14th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Diabetes Type 2:
* Increased fatigue : Due to inefficiency of cell to metabolise glucose, reserve fat of body is metabolised to gain energy. When fat is broken down in the body, it uses more energy as compared to glucose, hence body goes in negative calorie effect, which results in fatigue.
* Polydipsia : As the concentration of glucose increases in the blood, brain receives signal for diluting it and in its counteraction we feel thirsty.
* Polyuria: Increase in urine production is the result seen when excess of glucose is present in body. Body tries to get rid of the extra sugar in the blood by excreting it through the urine. This can also lead to dehydration because excreting the sugar which carries a large amount of water out of the body along with it.
* Polyphegia : The hormone insulin is also responsible for stimulating hunger. In order to cope up with high sugar levels in blood, body produces insulin which leads to increased hunger.
* Weight flactuation : Factors like loss of water (polyuria), glucosuria , metabolism of body fat and protein may lead to loss of weight. Few cases may show weight gain due to increased appetite.
* Blurry vision : Hyperosmolar hyperglycemia nonketotic syndrome is the condition when body fluid is pulled out of tissues including lenses of eye, which affects the ability of lenses to focus resulting in blurry vision.
* Irritability : It is one of the sign of high blood sugar because of the inefficient supply of glucose to brain and other body organs, which makes us feel tired and uneasy.
* Infections : Certain signals from the body is given whenever there is fluctuation of blood sugar (due to suppression of immune system) by frequent infections of fungal or bacterial like skin infection or UTI (urinary tract infection).
* Poor wound healing : High blood sugar resists the flourishing of WBC, (white blood cell) which are responsible for body immune system. When these cells do not function accordingly, wound healing is not at good pace. Secondly, long standing diabetes leads to thickening of blood vessels which may affect proper circulation of blood in different body parts.
Good luck“
?Common symptoms of hypoglycemia include the following:
?Trembling
?Clamminess
?Palpitations
?Anxiety
?Sweating
?Hunger
?Because the brain is deprived of glucose, a second set of symptoms follows:
?Difficulty in thinking
?Confusion
?Headache
?Seizures
?Coma