Diabetes

[amberzak]

Just wondered if anyone here has diabetes? I am a type 2 diabetic, so I am on insulin.

[poeticjazzsupreme]

yes..I am type 2 diabetic as well..on oral medication...

[amberzak]

Silly mistake of mine earlier, I am type 1, so on insulin. (Sorry, I was thinking lots about my dad at the time who was just diagnosed as type 2, and I can't see how to edit it).

I was diagnosed about 5 or 6 years ago (I was 19 or 20).

(I feel silly. Do you ever make stupid mistakes like that?)

[BenJohnson]

Stupid mistakes, I never make anything but.

[Mr. Blocks]

Could someone explain to me how diabetes comes about in a person? From what I believe right now is, that anyone can get this, and it's due to sugar levels reaching so low at one point? And once it pases that point you'll become diabetic?

My nan was a diabetic, also an uncle of mine is diabetic.

[amberzak]

There are two different types of Diabetes. Type 2 is the most common and normally happens as people get older. This can be due to diet, but isn't always. There are many other factors, including ill health, and even just that the pancreas starts to give up same as our eyes do. Type 2 is treated with dietary controlled and tablets usually.

Type 1 (which is what I have) is also known as Juvenile onset. It normally (but not always) occurs in childhood. The reasons for type 1 is unclear, but it has nothing to do with lifestyle. We treat ourselves by injecting insulin, a hormone with is normally produced by the pancreas. Before the invention of the insulin injection, a diagnoses of type 1 was a death sentence.

Morph, you are right in that ANYONE can get either, but it is more like your sugar levels go up. My sugar levels raise if I don't inject enough insulin, but they also go down if I don't eat, do too much unexpected exercise or take too much insulin. That is when I risk going into a diabetic coma (which I nearly have a couple of times) and need sugar.

There is a lot more to it than that, and there are so many misconceptions about diabetes (I, for example, carb count, which means I eat what I want. If I want a chocolate bar, I eat it). I am forever correcting people. So if you have any questions, please ask. I am not expert, but I have it, so I can answer from personal experience.

[Mr. Blocks]

What exactly happens to you during a diabetic coma? Do you black out? I do believe I remember a teacher who not only feel to the ground, but was also shaking quite a lot? Is that the same thing?

Why it is that sugar levels have such a hand in control over the body? At what point does it all day "This is too much" and causes damage to you?

[ragingdosh]

Not sure about that question, but diabetes, just to re-cap, comes in two forms
1 you generally develop as an adult, the other you usually get as a child/from birth.
What diabetes is, is when the pancreas doesn't produce insulin, or not enough of it anyway, which can cause problems with sugar levels, as they are unable to convert the sugar into what is required. (i can never remember what it is called)
Generally treated by tablets or insulin injections, which help control that sugar level, maintaining it at a healthy rate.

Also, to add to your question, Are hypoglycemia comas different to hyperglycemia?

[C. Enyo]

Hello all

I feel the need to correct/elaborate on, some info.

Firstly, at the moment there are 3 broadly accepted categories of Diabetes. Type 1, Type 2 and LADA (or T1.5, known as Slow Onset Diabetes). It is possible that eventually Diabetes will not have categories as there are so many varied forms and cases.

Diabetes is not actually because the pancreas simply malfunctions. It is because our own antibodies, do not recognise it and attack it the way they would an alien body or bodies they are trying to reject.

Type 2 is not actually normally cometh with age. T2 is largely hereditory (almost all cases). This means you are born with the gene. It can or may come with age although it is largely simply exposed later in life, when a necessity for strict dieting arises, or in some lesser cases, oral tablets or even injections.

As said above, T1, aka Juvenile diabetes LARGELY will show by the age of 8, then up to the age of mid twenties and RARELY later.

According to leading researches Martin Press and professor David Leslie, whilst we do not have accurate info on y T1 occurs, it is believed 2 b due to modern lifestyle. The general theory accepted is that due to good living, our antibodies become lazy and begin to attack the pancreas. When I was diagnosed and had a history of substance abuse and reasons to believe my lifestyle was in no way so healthy, it was agreed by both that it is simply a theory (that I deem bullshit). In fact, neither could dispute that we are now realising the opposite. Smoking drinking fast food and other bad factors of modern life can contribute. I did not become affected by my 'diabetes', until after I came clean from all substance abuse that was previously a heavy daily occurence. There is also the reality that different cases with diff circumstances can lead to same result, as with cancer. Therefore, in some cases, even depression and severe anxiety can be factors that help surface the condition (or accelerate it), although such theories are in no way conclusive. My case would clearly show that after cleaning myself of substances the body grew use to, and after the most extreme hellish and mad year, suddenly over a month I rapidly began to show signs of T1.

A common american form of mild diabetes is also due to obesity and is a T2 category.

If you wish to learn tips and have support, I recommend www.DLife.com, also, www.diabetes.org.uk.

A final note about Hypos (hypoglaceamea) and comas. The mind is a strong tool in dealing with this. E.g. I had a T2 friend (b4 I even knew what Diabetes was). She would pass out all the time and I had to intervene on numerous occasions. After I was first diagnosed and during the 'honeymoon' period I began to recover, because I was using insulin I was having even 10 hypos a day. I was in fact waking up with readings of LO (this is machine reading for LOW. It is the lowest reading you can get that no longer gives digits). Yet I functioned fine and drove hundreds of miles daily. this was because I had no fear. i simply ate chocolate or a special glucose sweet and got over it. I had barely studied it and wasnt paranoid. However, like with any lasting condition, the more you live with it and learn of it, the more fearful you become. Therefore, when having a hypo it might be harder to fight because the mind is shutting down on you. i watched, the other day, a woman pass out simply from anxiety and fear, with no medical condition. Remember the mind is a POWERFUL tool. So conquering it, is key! ;)

REMEMBER, having this condition should not restrict your life. The president of the olympics with 5 gold medels is a type 1. Similarly many famous people are. People who have sailed the world and great poets, actors and musicians. They say you can't have tattoos due to poor healing and yet a famous Miami ink (TV series) tattooist has many. So do I...

Live strong.. Live sugar FREE ;)

[Ike]

You have all given good and accurate information. I have type 2...adult onset. It is inherited and weight and diet play a big part. As a nurse I have seen blood sugars over 500. Normal is 90-100. When your blood sugar gets too high your blood is like syrup. It cannot get into the cells to be used for energy because there is no insulin to carry it. At this stage it will cause damage to arteries and veins. It affects vision (retinal) peripheral veins in the extremities, kidnes...as they cannot function. It also causes a pain called neuropathy which is generally in the feet and legs. The nerves do not get blood and they atrophy causing pain. Diabetics often lose their kidneys, legs, and vision. Take good care of your feet. When the completion of neuropathy has given way to killing the nerves you cannot feel your feet and if you injure them they have great difficulty healing because the blood flow is poor...same thing that got them there .

[abrillgreen]

Rewritten Article

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[jaxter]

Diabetes is the most dangerous disease for the human beings. So people must be careful about that. Only medicines and insulin injection is not sufficient for curing this disease. People must control their weights and also do exercises regularly.

[sljordan]

In another thread I spoke to this to some extent. Last April (2011) I began slipping into what I was later told was 'diabetic shock' when I felt ill with flu-like symptoms. I took my temperature with an aging digital thermometer and found that I was about five degrees below normal. This continued over the next few days, only my thermometer broke and I began hearing a kind of white noise behind my television broadcasts. I began to be able to decipher a code I detected coming in with the white noise. It told me my body temperature was still low, and it was beginning to hint at the peoples responsible for attacking me in ways that would lower my body temperature.

If I'd told anybody I interacted with that last week or ten days I was home that I was getting secret messages from my television, I might have been hustled into a doctor's office and avoided a major pain or two. I have very little memory of my last week home. I did a lot of vomiting at the very end. I also managed to call my brother and tell him I thought I might need to go to the hospital. Thankfully my brother came by, managed to get into my locked home, and called the medics to come and get me.

I have no memories of the following two weeks while I was in an ICU unit at the local hospital, where they stabilized me so I could be transported to Seattle. I do have memories though. I fantasized that I was imprisoned in a genie's cavern, where it was interminably hot. I finally managed to escape there, but had trouble in a jungle forest with some home-grown oxygen producers rooting in my pulmonary system until I ripped it out (possibly corresponding with an incident of me pulling some breathing tubes out of me back in the real world), but I was soon taken captive by the Voodoo Queen in her jungle fortress.

The Voodoo Queen turned out to be a nurse at the first hospital in Seattle I was sent to. Over the next three weeks, I never understood what was really going on around me. I could not sit up on my own or control any body functions at first. I spent those three weeks working just to be able to stand up, turn around, and sit down. After that I was sent off to a month of rehab where I learned to walk again.

The first night at the rehab facility I carried on a conversation quite late with a clockwork cowgirl who appeared in my mirror. But I was aware the entire time that I was hallucinating. The three weeks at the Seattle hospital I did not know I was hallucinating, and believed everything happening to me in my dreams and imagineerings was real.

I had never heard of diabetes coming on like this, but I've since learned that it happens now and then. In my case, my brother saved my life when he came to check on me. I've been told I couldn't have made it another twenty-four hours.

It's not all grim. Along with diabetes, patients often experience a condition known as neuropathy. Basically that's where feeling becomes lost in a certain area, usually (and in my case) in the feet and legs. These areas also produce pain. In my case, it is severe pain and constant. By constant, I mean constant. :(

Anyway, I live in a state that has passed laws allowing for the medical use of marijuana. Neuropathy is one of the disorders that, so long as the patient complains about pain, can be treated with marijuana and marijuana products. Products include lollipops, ice cream, and soda. Of course hashish, tinctures, and the oddest tasting salt water taffy you ever did saw. :yum: I can now legally possess twenty-four ounces of marijuana for a sixty-day supply, and grow up to fifteen plants.

[qipol]

Diabetes are really one of the dangerous disease, Half of the population is affected by this disease, and the number are increasing.Diabetes can be prevented by proper medical attention. Diet regulation is most important for controlling diabetes. Phytonutrients, multivitamins, fibrous food and protein should be taken to prevent diabetes.Also,i believe education plays a very important role in controlling such disease.