Can you tell me the effect of alcohol and diabetes? Is it better to just quit if you have diabetes?
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Best to quit - diabetes or not
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The symptoms of diabetes are drinking a lot and being very thirty, having sores that are slow to heal, having dry and itchy skin, having blurry eyesight, feeling very tired or hungry,urinating often, losing weight without trying, having a dark velvety rash on your neck, having tingling in your feet, having a high glucose (sugar)level, and having a high urine ketones level. \nThere is alot of useful information on diabetes on these two web sites. And if you yahoo search it you'll get even more helpful website to read about diabetes. Hope i helped to answer your question.
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I'm as sick of hospitals as you are I think. I have had diabetes for 39 years with complications like heart attacks and amputations. I also have intractable epilepsy, which means medications don't help. I go because I have to. I pray every night and every day for guidance and help to cope with life and myself. I still make it through every day. Good luck and I'll pray for you.
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General rules apply.....\nclearly not more than the recommended 21 units for men and 18 units for women in a week....\n\nImportant that type 2 diabetics realise that too much alcohol contributes to increasing weight due to the empty calories without nutrition\n\nand that alcohol can worsen fatty liver.....\n\nand increase your triglyceride levels which are already high thanks to type 2 diabetes\n\nand that while more than a pint or two of beer can put up your glucose,......\n\nwhile 5 pints or more of beer along with exercise like dancing can make your sugar go low especially if you have not eaten decently.......\n\nBUT on the whole, type 2 diabetics have more leeway with regard to type 1 diabetics, in that the swings in glucose acutely are not THAT acute.....with lower concerns of ketoacidosis..\n\ni wouldnt totally take to heart skewed studies which can look at only one aspect of diabetes and say alcohol is good for diabetics..but everything in MODERATION...SEE: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16458538&query_hl=23&itool=pubmed_docsum
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From Type I diabetes there really isn't anything you can do.\n\nFor Type II ... avoid becoming obese.  You need to stay active and healthy.  If you have a family history of Type II diabetes you need to be very careful about keeping your weight within a healthy range, avoid drinking alcohol in excess, and stay active.
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Pot won't directly affect your diabetes, but many people get the "munchies" while on pot and consume large amounts of junk food and candy.  So you will have to watch out for that and avoid the urge to binge on food.
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Yes there is a limit. You are drinking way too much if you are diabetic. Think about cutting back.
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Interesting! I don't think modereate alcohol consumption can affect "performance" so I would suggest seeing a doctor about it! Are you sure you are not under a lot of stress at the minute?
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It all depends on how advanced your diabetes is.  If you're an insulin dependent diabetic, meaning you take shots every day, it's highly unlikely you'll ever be able to stop taking the shots.  If you're in the early stages of diabetes, it's possible that with diet and exercise you could come off the meds.  However, diabetes is hereditary and each individual is different.  Don't give up hope though.  Whatever your situation, you can lead a normal life as long as you keep a watch on your health.
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they risk for alcohol abuse, therefore they are at risk for diabetics... take goood care of your self :)
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Yes. Even if you are at a high risk for diabetes (due to your genetics), you can lower your chances by eating healthy, exercising regularly, and monitoring your lab work (cholesterol, triglycerides, blood glucose, etc.). Work with your doctor / healthcare team to come up with a prevention plan. \n\nBe aware though that diabetes is a highly heriditary condition. While these things can / will lower your risks for development of the disease, you may still get diabetes. None of these are guranteed to stop the onset of diabetes. \n\nGood luck and best wishes...
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I was born diabetic. I've been through most of the major complications that diabetics go through, blindness, neuropathy, commas from high and low glucose levels, kidney failure and kidney/pancreas transplant. If you have a high glucose level, the only thing you should be putting in your body is insulin! Even water has a negative impact. As most of us with diabetes, you probably have high blood pressure. Consuming water increases the amount of water being retained in your entire system, hence water retention, causing your heart and kidneys to much harder than normal under all ready difficult conditions. Don't give high blood sugar levels anything to feed on. go exercise and get your mind off eating.
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you can't get rid of type 2 diabetes but following a good diet and looking after yourself properly you can control it. and having really well controled type 2 you may not need to take ur BSL's as much maybe once a day maybe once a week maybe hardly ever, and some people don't even need medication for it, wen really well controlled you may not even have the feelings of diabetes at all, just need to see a doc to keep an eye out
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Yes it can lead into diabetes if you are not careful, if your blood suger gets low use glucose tabs, peanut butter, eggs, or juice to level it out, but never sugary candy, watch your candy intake, I too have this problem
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when you have diabetes, the kidneys work hard to remove that extra suger form the blood. so you have to urinate more often,and then the body asks for more water by making you more thirsty. so if you feel more thirsty, and urinate more often, then it is  the first sign that you have diabetes.\n\ndrinking more water will let you remove more excess  sugar,and will prevent the dryness in mouth and skin, but it will not reduce the sugar in the blood that you are adding by eating more and more food .\n\nwhat you need to know is  how high is the sugar level in the blood. Then you need to controll the sugar to an acceptable level, by medicine, by reducing food intake, and the exercise.\n\nIt is found that when we have diabetes, our body does not produce insulin. And body muscles can not use up the sugar from the blood just by doing daily routine work and we feel energyless(Lousy).\n\nBut recent studies found that regular exercise and walking at brisk speed( so you breath faster) reduces blood sugar.\n\nBut when you regularly exercise,then the muscles can
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Diabetes is not a disease . It is disorder due to deficiency in insulin production. So there is no cure for it. You have to control it properly by diet, exercise, avoiding stress both physical and mental and reducing weight if you are over weight.  By controling you can live a normal life  and as many years as others live.
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Since your life is shortened when you have diabetes, you should not aim for being a normal diabetic, you should aim to cure your disease, in other words, be normal in blood sugar.  Type 2 can be cured.  My dad did it with the Pritikin diet.  It is drastic, but the disease's consequences are severe.  Allowing it to continue is keeping drug companies and your doctor in pools of money.  Get angry and get cured.  If you're going to drop oranges because they're carbs, make sure you consume a variety of other fruits including tomatoes.  Until your blood sugar drops to normal levels, cut out those starches that are made without fiber like white rice, potatoes, white bread and batter-fried foods.  Who wants to be addicted to drugs for 40 years, and then die (or get crippled) early anyway?