When a person has diabetes, do both their hands/feet fall asleep? Or does usually just affect one?
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As a general rule, it is usually one or the other that appears to fall asleep.  When a person is a diabetic, especially for a long time, they can develope such a thing called diabetic neuropathy.  This is when a limb, usually a leg or foot or both on one side becomes numb.  As a diabetic myself, this happened to me back in 1996.  It is scary sometimes and makes you really pay attention to your eating habits and making you take care of yourself better by regularly checking your blood sugar by using a meter.  Proper exercise and eating right will not correct neuropathy but it may prevent it from happening to other limbs in your body.\n\nAs for the shakes, it is common for that to happen.  That's why it is important for you or anyone with diabetes to eat regurlarly and don't skip on meals.  I hope this was helpful for you, good luck!
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Do you want diabetes just to say "I'm diabetic" and gain sympathy?  If that is the case, then that it is a concern.  Or are you having actual symptoms of something and you feel that getting a diagnosis of diabetes would be a relief to you so you can begin to take care of the problem?  If so, that is understandable.  It is frustrating to have physical symptoms and not know what is wrong.  I am a nurse (dialysis) and I see everday what diabetes does to people, especially those who do not take care of themselves.  You do not want a disease like this because it leads to so many more problems.
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Numbness is a complete loss of feeling when you touch your skin. It may feel like the part you touch does not belong to you. Tingling is a pins-and-needles feeling that occurs when your foot "falls asleep." An occasional, slight tingling in a foot that lasts only briefly is not generally cause for concern. It is relatively common among bicyclists who ride long distances to develop numbness in the feet for a few minutes to an hour. This often occurs because of tight toe-clip straps. The problem may be prevented by loosening the straps or switching to a step-in shoe-pedal.\n\nMany conditions may cause numbness, tingling, burning, or stinging.\n\nNumbness, tingling, burning, stinging, or pain that occurs between the toes, especially the third and fourth toes, and in the ball of the foot may be caused by a noncancerous growth on nerves in the foot (Morton's neuroma).\nNumbness, tingling, or pain that begins in your back, moves down your leg and into your foot may be sciatica, caused by a pinched nerve (nerve root compression).\nFoot and ankle pain that occurs with numbness and weakness that begins in the foot and spreads into the toes may be caused by a pinched nerve in the ankle (tarsal tunnel syndrome).\nBurning, numbness, or lack of feeling in the feet may be caused by poor circulation to the feet. This is common in people who have diabetes or peripheral arterial disease. Poor circulation may lead to nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy).\nBurning, pins-and-needles–type pain is common in people who use alcohol regularly because alcohol directly damages the nerves.
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Crystal, get to a doctor as soon as possible.  This sounds like it could be the start of nerve damage in your foot.  We diabetics have to be on the lookout for numbness or tingling in the extremities---they can be signs of problems with our sugar levels.  Are you following a sensible diet, exercising and checking your sugar regularly?  Let me know, if you would, how the doctor's visit goes---just post some details.  Good luck!
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The clinical name for this is parathesia. Most people have felt the sensation of a foot "falling asleep". This lack of sensation is caused by a temporary impedance of blood flow to the foot which results in nerve cells being starved of oxygen and glucose.
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Over time the fluctuation in blood sugar levels causes damage to various systems of the body.  In this case the peripheral nerves and blood vessels are affected.  The nerves to the feet and extremities often slowly die resulting in a diabetic nephropathy (death of nerves).  As such diabetics may knock or damage their legs and not realise.\n\nAlso diabetics tend to have other chronic diseases and may be on drugs to thin their blood such as warfarin.  As such they would bruise more easily and extensively.  In the UK diabetics are entitled to regular free chiropody checks to make sure their feet are ok.\n\nThere is not much that can be done really to my knowledge.  Aim for tighter glucose control but often the damage has already been done.  However the glucose control is still very important for all the rest of the body's systems.
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I'm diabetic (high sugar) but I can still have a low depending on my meds, when I ate last, stress, too much exercise, etc.  I tend to feel shakey, tremble, get a headache, get irritable.\n\nSix years after diagnoses I still don't have any symptoms to show that my blood sugar is too high.  The only way I know is to use my meter.
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Diabetics has type I(A) and Type II (B). Mostly type II are related to environment. The S/S like thirsty, fading,tired, sleepy all the day, someone told you that your oral odour smell like sugar... \n\nWhen more severe, skin itchy, eye problem may happen.\n\nyou can consult with your physician or perform some blood glucose examination to see whether your blood glucose level is high or low
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Yes, it's called Double Diabetes and it's getting more common.  The diagnosis will remain type 1 however, but oral meds may need to be added.
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If you have diabetes you are more apt to have feet problems due to the poor circulation. Also, you need to look at your feet nightly as you may have injured them and not known it.\n\nMy gpa was diabetic and had to have his leg amputated do to diabetes.\n\nFor more info, go to http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp...and type in feet problems
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You'll experience some or all of these symptoms if you have type 2 diabetes:\n-frequent infections and cuts and bruises that heal slowly\n-blurred vision\n-tingling or numbness in hands and feet\n-vaginal yeast infections\n-skin, gum, or bladder infections that recur\nSymptoms are often not present in early stages of the disease and you may have the illness for many years before being diagnosed. \n\nDiabetic complications that may occur at the time of diagnosis:\n-numbness, tingling, burning pain or swelling in the feet and hands\n-feeling dizzy or weak when sitting or standing suddenly\n-blurred or distorted vision or seeing flashes of light; seeing large, floating red or black spots; or seeing large areas that look like floating hair, cotton fibers, or spiderwebs\n\nHope that helps!
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Type 2 diabetes develops more gradually.  Some people with type 2 diabetes have symptoms of frequent urination and increased thirst, but most show no symptoms.  \n\nHave you actually been told you have diabetes or that you are pre-diabetic?\n\nEven without symptoms you need to start taking care of yourself. The vast majority of people, about 85%, who develop type 2 are clinically obese.  Improving nutrition, increasing exercise and achieving a healthy weight are the main components of treatment for a person with Type 2 diabetes.  Medication is required in most causes.\n\nDiabetes is a serious illness please don't take it lightly because you do not have any symptoms yet, (I am sure you know this because of your parents).  Poorly controlled diabetes can lead to very serious heart, eye, nerve and kidney problems down the road.\n\nGood luck I hope you are able to get yourself on track.
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When blood sugar drops too low, like lower than 65mg/dL, your brain isn't getting the sugar it needs to produce the energy required for proper nervous function.  In essence, your brain is starving, so it goes a little crazy - such as irritability, forgetfulness, disorientation, and other symptoms mentioned by the good people above me. This doesn't just happen to diabetics - it'll happen to anyone who lets their sugar drop too low.
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What is it like not having diabetes?  I have had it since I was little, so it is all that I know.  \n\nIt is at times inconvenient, but so is being short or sunburning easy or being left handed.  Nevertheless, I am still a normal person; I love, hate, laugh, cry and dream just like anyone else does.  I am a wife and a mother.  I am a poet.  I blog.  I tell  jokes.  I sing songs and dance when no one is watching.  \n\nThe only thing different about me is my body does not make insulin, so I hate to take it from an outside source.
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you didn't say in what stage of diabetes you are, and how severe is your disease,and how much is it under control. but as a general rule , diabetes patients are taking longer time in healing of scars, and usually in a long term disease they have problem with the big and small vessels of their body ,specially skin tissue,which can lead to necrosis and death of that part of tissue.\n besides that in diabetes patients there is higher rates of infections(fungal,bacterial). specially if there will be a way of entry to body.that is why it is always advised to diabetic patients to avoid injury to their body (legs,feet specially) and to wash and keep clean their foot,and wear socks ,and covered shoes to decrease chances of injury.\n as a medical student i don't think it is a wise idea for you to go for tattoo , but if you really like it, consult your personal physician .
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G'day Mark m,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nI would advise the relevant doctor that you have diabetes and they should be able to advise you whether it does or not.\n\nIn most cases, I would believe not but it would depend on the medication.\n\nRegards
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I am diabetic and just got diagnosed with  depression, I believe that there is a connection. I feel drained and frustrated with my diabetes on a regular basis. I also read that people who get diagnosed with diabetes have a great chance of becoming depressed becuase of the life style. I admit, it is sad thinking that I live out of a needle and vile of insulin, that i can't eat ice cream when I want, that I can't sleep or eat when I want to I need to be consistant, it becomes very upsetting!