Can someone who either has or is very knowledgeable about diabetes help me with this question please?
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It would have been high because you hadn't taken your meds at all the day before and were probably high the entire morning. Sometimes it just takes longer to feel the effects as your blood sugar continues to rise. Also, stress and emotional things can affect your blood sugar, and it sounds like you were in a highly stressful situation the day before. A third factor affecting your blood sugar is other medication, so the allergy meds may have contributed to it as well. The craving sugar could have been because sometimes when we go high we get hungry, or because you thought you were low, so your brain wanted sugar, even though your body didn't. \n\nI would recommend finding a fool-proof way to never forget your meds. I know how hard it can be when you're busy, but your life is too important not to take a few minutes a day to save it. \n\nGood Luck!
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there is a deibetic chat room on yahoo chat that has so many cool people to help you i learned more there than any where hope you get  there :)
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Hi there, i am John and have diabetes over 13 yrs and if u can contact via yahoo messenger or email at santodomingo@yahoo.com. and we can chat over diabetes, i have it and it can be pain at times, hit me up!
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it seems as though you are trying to treat your diabetes with homeopathic thoughts.\n\nType 2 diabetes can be "controlled" and/or "cured" by the diet and there is a place that uses homeopathic means to do this.\n\nIt is called the Weimar Institute.  They take obese type 2 diabetics and change their life menu.  In several weeks these people lose weight, are put on a diet that detoxifies their system (organic vegitable shakes) and exercise.  \n\nI have seen a woman who was advised to take radiation and chemo for cancer refuse that treatment and go to Weimar for their detox program.  2 years later -- no cancer, lost 125 lbs and is happy as ever.  \n\nCheck this out -- call them and see.  If you want to learn about it the right way, they are the ones who know.
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Always pleased to further the resaerch into diabetes and it's effects. I have been diabetic for 10 years now and still struggle with the fact i have it. I thinl there should be some kind of couselling form newly diagnosed diabetics but... yeah send those questions on. joelle@melvern.co.uk
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Well, it could be a lot of things.Weight,blood pressure,sugar diebetes to be sure go to your doctor only he can really tell you.Someone over the net doesn't know your health background and we can only give hypotheses.
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diabetes is a disease inhertited from your parents, or somewhere in you blood line...junk food wont give it to you ,,smiles...but when in doubt get youre self checked out and find out about youre family tree....i will tell you this, type 2 can be casued by diet, as you get older as in my case...good luck
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Yes, a blood sugar reading of 92 is great, but that does not mean that your daughter is not diabetic. In order to determine this for sure, consult with your doctor and have an A1c test done on your daughter. As a type 2, you know that the A1c test will give you an average for about 120 days. This will help determine whether or not your daughter's levels are running high consistently or if the 92 that you got on your own was an indicator of normal blood sugar levels. \nOther blood test will also help determine whether or not she is diabetic. \n\nWhile decreased healing is one symptom of diabetes, it could also be the symptom of something else... infection, etc. If the sores are there longer than they should be, then get them checked out by a doctor ASAP to avoid serious complications (infection, scarring, etc.). \n\nGood luck and best wishes...
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As I read though earlier answers I see there is some good and some incorrect information.  People need to be specific when speaking about diabetes because there are two types.  Type 1 also known as juvenile diabetes is not curable.  Yes you could have a transplant of the pancreas but honestly that would be worse than having to take insulin everyday.  With transplant surgery there a many drugs you have to take to keep your body from rejecting the transplanted organ.  These drugs can do more harm to your body than diabetes (if you are keeping your glucose in check).\n\nNow with type 2 which is typically brought on by obesity can be "cured" with healthy diet and exercise in some people.  Type 2 diabetes does not act the same way as type 1, your pancreas does produce insulin but your body does not know how to deal with it -you are insulin resistant or you just don't produce enough.  If your diabetes is not tied to obesity then you are not likely to be "cured" by diet and exercise.  Type II can also be attributed to genetics,  or life style (excessive drinking, inactivity, certain drugs) also women who had gestational diabetes are more likely to develop Type II diabetes later in life.\n\nAs for you and your "cure" don't rely on the medications to "cure" you.  You need to change your lifestyle if weight is your issue.  Healthy diet and exercise - walking, running anything that gets you moving and your heart rate up.  Once you get your glucose levels in check you will see a big difference in your erectile issues (pun intended), because you will have better circulation.  Good luck and I hope everything works out for you.\n\nJust a side note of information - most Type II diabetics see their primary care physician for there diabetes care, your primary physician is not very likely to have been schooled extensively in diabetes care so you should see a specialist -an Endocrinologist.  A specialist would be a great person to help you get on track and they will usually set you up with a dietician.
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Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life. The cause of diabetes continues to be a mystery, although both genetics and environmental factors such as obesity and lack of exercise appear to play roles.\n\nThere are 20.8 million people in the United States, or 7% of the population, who have diabetes. While an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, unfortunately, 6.2 million people (or nearly one-third) are unaware that they have the disease.\n\nIn order to determine whether or not a patient has pre-diabetes or diabetes, health care providers conduct a Fasting Plasma Glucose Test (FPG) or an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT). Either test can be used to diagnose pre-diabetes or diabetes. The American Diabetes Association recommends the FPG because it is easier, faster, and less expensive to perform.\n\nWith the FPG test, a fasting blood glucose level between 100 and 125 mg/dl signals pre-diabetes. A person with a fasting blood glucose level of 126 mg/dl or higher has diabetes.\n\nIn the OGTT test, a person's blood glucose level is measured after a fast and two hours after drinking a glucose-rich beverage. If the two-hour blood glucose level is between 140 and 199 mg/dl, the person tested has pre-diabetes. If the two-hour blood glucose level is at 200 mg/dl or higher, the person tested has diabetes.\nMajor Types of Diabetes\n\n\nThe Complete Guide to Diabetes, 4th EditionFurther Reading . . .\nThe Complete Guide to Diabetes has been completely revised to bring you all the information you need to live an active, healthy life with diabetes. Now in its fourth edition, this guide gives you information on the best self-care techniques and the latest medical advances. If you have diabetes, this guide will answer all your questions.\nFor more books on healthy living, click here.\n\nType 1 diabetes\nResults from the body's failure to produce insulin, the hormone that "unlocks" the cells of the body, allowing glucose to enter and fuel them. It is estimated that 5-10% of Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 1 diabetes.\n\nType 2 diabetes\nResults from insulin resistance (a condition in which the body fails to properly use insulin), combined with relative insulin deficiency. Most Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.\n\nGestational diabetes\nGestational diabetes affects about 4% of all pregnant women - about 135,000 cases in the United States each year.\n\nPre-diabetes\nPre-diabetes is a condition that occurs when a person's blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough for a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. There are 41 million Americans who have pre-diabetes, in addition to the 20.8 million with diabetes.\nAdditional Information\n\n\nDiabetes Learning Center for the Recently Diagnosed\nYou've just been diagnosed with diabetes. Chances are you have a million questions running through your head. To help you answer those questions, and take the first steps toward better diabetes care, visit the Diabetes Learning Center -- an area for people who have been recently diagnosed with diabetes, or those needing basic information.\n\nDiabetes Symptoms\nOften diabetes goes undiagnosed because many of its symptoms seem so harmless. Learn what they are in this section.\n\nDiabetes Risk Test\nMore than 20 million Americans have diabetes - nearly one in three does not know it! Take our diabetes risk test to see if you are at risk for having diabetes. Diabetes is more common in African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.\n\nDiabetes Myths\nFind the truth about some of the most common myths about diabetes.\n\nDiabetes Statistics\nWith so many people affected by diabetes, the American Diabetes Association has compiled statistics on the impact of diabetes and its complica
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Diabetes (diabetes mellitus) happens when the body can't use glucose for energy because it doesn’t have any or enough insulin. Insulin controls how much glucose (which is the energy source we get from food) can pass from the blood into body’s cells.\n\nAlert!\nIf a person who is known to have diabetes becomes confused, obviously unwell, drowsy or unconscious, that person needs urgent help. She may have very low levels of blood glucose (hypoglycaemia – 'hi-po-gly-see-mia') or ketoacidosis ('ket-o-acid-o-sis'). See the topic 'Diabetes – managing diabetes in childhood' for more information about what to do for hypoglycaemia and ketoacidosis.\n\n\nWhat is diabetes?\nThere are two main types of diabetes mellitus.\n\nDiabetes mellitus type 1 (sometimes called ‘juvenile onset diabetes’ or ‘insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM)) usually starts in childhood or early adult life, most commonly before teenage years. It is due to damage to b-cells in the pancreas, so that they do not make the hormone insulin.\nDiabetes mellitus type 2 (also called ‘mature onset diabetes’ or non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus) usually starts later in life, usually when the person is over 40 years old. However, it is occurring more often now in much younger people, especially people who are very overweight. Although people with type 2 diabetes usually make some insulin, it is not enough, or it does not work well.\nThere is also gestational diabetes which happens during pregnancy, and diabetes insipidus, a quite different sort of problem.\n\nThis topic focuses only on type 1 diabetes mellitus.\n\nWith type 1 diabetes, young people have no insulin, so they need:\n\nto get insulin by injection at least once, and often several times each day \nto be careful about what they eat, how much they exercise, drinking alcohol and using tobacco and drugs \nto be in control of their diabetes \nto understand that people with diabetes are able to do pretty much everything that other people are able to do. \n\nUnderstanding diabetes\nOur topic on the Parenting and Child Health section of this site called 'Diabetes in childhood' contains a lot of information about the causes of diabetes and its effects and complications.\n\nThere is a lot of research going on world wide to find a cure for diabetes, including seeking ways of transplanting insulin-making tissue – but there is no cure for diabetes yet.\n\n\nManaging diabetes\nEvery person who has type 1 diabetes should have their own diabetes management plan and a team of workers they can seek information and help from.\n\nSomeone with type 1 diabetes will need to regularly monitor their:\n\nblood glucose level \ndiet \ninsulin \nexercise.\nAt the moment, insulin will need to be injected every day for the rest of their life. The topic 'Diabetes - managing diabetes in childhood' goes into detail about diet, insulin, monitoring blood glucose, exercise and most of the questions that are usually asked. \n\n\nTaking control\nIf you have had diabetes for a while, you and your parents may be very used to managing your diabetes. If it has only recently been diagnosed, they may be very anxious and want to help more than you feel is needed (parents are like that!)\n\nAs you get older, your diabetes management team and your parents will help you to take control of managing your diabetes – you might start to see health workers by yourself, and gradually take over managing your own record-keeping.\n\nAll doctors, dietitians and others who work with people with diabetes know that people are not perfect. If you do 'go out of control' it is best to 'own up' and work out some plans for next time, rather than pretending that every thing is OK.\n\nSome things that you will probably have to manage more strictly than other young people include: \n\nmeal times (missing meals can lead to problems) \nsleep-ins (you may have to wake up early to eat, or have your
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Teh most common sorts of diabetes are quite different, have different causes, and only share (confusingly) complications. I'll take them one at a time. \n\n=================\nType 1\n\nType 1 at 5-10% of all diabetics in the developed world. It is an auto-immune disease, somewhat in the manner of some kinds of artritis or lupus. The susceptibility to it is inherited and is associated with some kinds of HLA antigens. But it also seems to require, in most cases, an environmental trigger as well. This is most often an infection: one of the Coxsackie viruses, or German measles, for instance. it is the infection which triggers the immune system to attack and destory the Beta cells in the pancreas. it is often seen in children and so has been called juvenile diabetes.  \n\n============\nType 2\n\nType 2 has a very different origin. It is much more stongly inherited, and yet it is also associated with environmental conditions. About 2/3 of all cells in the body require insluin to absorb glucose (ie, fuel) fromthe blood. Type 2 is characterized by resistance to this insulin action to a greater or lesser degree. It often starts slow, with only somewhat elevated blood sugar levels, and sometimes progresses from there. It's most common in adults (hence the obsolete term, 'adult-onset diabetes'), and it's associated with overweight (hence the obsolete term, 'obesity related diabetes'). It is clear that environment is an important part of the causation since the 'Western diet' is clearly indicated. What exactly it is not clear. Most Type 2 diabetes can be adequately controlled by diet, exercies, and sometimes oral medications. A portion of type 2 diabetics eventually fail to respond to the oral medications, and they generally end up using insulin. \n\nGestational diabetes seems to be the result of the hormonal changes of pregnancy combined with an inheritied tendency toward Type 2. It generally ends with the pregnancy, though a portion of the women go on to develop Type 2 later on.
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ok..in english diabetes is the inability of cells to use sugar in the blood due to either a lack of insulin (produced by the pancreas) or the inability for a cell to transport sugar across the cell. because your cells cannot use the sugar it stays in limbo between the cells (high blood sugar)until it is filtered out through the kidneys (this causes alot of pressure and can destroy them). the high blood sugar also puts alot of pressure on the eyes that can cause blindness. another effect if left untreated is pariphial neuropathy..a big word for loss of circulation and feeling in the lower extremities (legs) this can lead to sores that cannot heal (because the cells cannot use the sugar for energy) these are things that do not happen all at once but over time. If you do not keep your sugar under control these things WILL happen...PLEASE take this disease seriously...many times the treatment is diet and exercise depending on how much insulin your pancreas does produce..if this does not work you will need to take medicine every day for the rest of your life (which is much better than the consiquences of not treating it ....amputation, blindness, kidney failure, stroke, heart attack, ect...this list continues to grow.
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No one is gonna be able to answer this with that little information.  Why did you post in diabetes?  Do you know what proton pumps are?  They have nothing to do with diabetes- they make acid.
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Contact the American Diabetes Association.  Your doctor should have pamplets and information.  There should also be information that comes with your glucometer.  Your local hospital should also have information available.
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Firstly, it should be done by a healthcare professional...either a doctor or a diabetic nurse.  It is calculated based on individual response. So it is really a guess game. You give some insulin, see what a sugar value is in several hours and adjust based on that.  After several days, you arrive at a reasonable dose.  Hope this helps, but don't try this on your own :).
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There are many sources to look at.\n\nProbably the most user-friendly is from the American Diabetes Association.\n\nEnjoy.