my 17 year old daughter is unwell at the moment and has been now for approximately two weeks. It started with her finger nails growing lumps on them from the cuticle. She visited the doctor with this and he did a blood test, this came back with low blood sugar and low white blood count. This blood test was repeated a few days later and is apparently normal. This doesnt help me as she is going through spells of extreme tiredness and generally feeling really unwell. She is having spells of shaking, dizziness, light headed and feeling like she is going to faint and a feeling she describes as everything is a huge effort to do. Then twice now after she has eaten she has got very hot feeling very unwell, her hands and feet feel clammy (sweaty) and she feels her chest is very heavy again she feels very unwell. Does anyone have any suggestions please. Thank you
I have taken my daughter back to the gp today and tomorrow she is having a blood test for fasting glucose would anyone suggest that this could be diabetes would this make her feel like this
im not sure how to answer peoples questions to me on this website so i will do it this way for now. my daughter eats a very healthy diet of fresh fruit vegetable and meat.

I am 16yrs old and have a strong history of diabetes in my family.
I was recently diagnosed with Diabetes Type 2 by a nurse, and she started giving me those 500g tablets of Metformin to have 1 after every evening dinner. She just wants to check if the metformin is helping me or not. I have to say I feel like its controlling my sugar levels, however I feel like its giving me diarrhoea. Despite that, the problem is that at night I start shaking when I’m about to go to sleep and I find it difficult to breath. This happens after waking up also.

I have no idea if its to do with the Metformin side-effects, but I feel like it is because these symptoms started to occurr a few days from know just about when I started having them. This is making me very nervous.

I recently also changed my diet, I eat healthier foods and have atleast 3 pieces of fruit a day (getting there) and am trying to maintain a balanced diet. I also walk around (power-walk) after every meal to help control the sugar levels. Everything seems fine except for at night when sleeping, I find it difficult to breath after waking up, even if I had’nt gotten full sleep.

Just so you know, I have asthma, but it does’nt feel like its part of the recent problem at all.
I am slightly overweight.

I’m aware without a doctor and without fully knowing my situation, a diagnosis of Diabetes is not possible. I’d just like your input as to whether or not the numbers i’ve been getting are normal or pin-point to diagnosis. I have had a GTT test and should get the results in a few days.

I bought a monitor and some test strips and have been monitoring my blood suguar levels in mmol/l daily since my Doctor sent me for the GTT.

My morning level (or fasting) is usualy around 5.5 mmol/l.

After two hours eating i’m down to between 6 and 7 mmol/l

I’ve never gone higher than 8.7 mmol/l

Thanks for any input you may be able to give me.

I was checked at 16 weeks and didn’t have it. I was checked at 28 weeks at was at 106 so i didn’t have it. then they checked me again at 32 weeks. I was 145. so not to much over the limit. I was never given the 3 hour test but I think I should have been. I have been put on the diabetic diet and given a meter to check my blood sugar. I was really good about my diet for a few days then I had a family issue. needless to say I had to eat what was provided. my blood sugar was fine! I tried the next day not portioning out any of my meals, still eating healthy but not using portions. my blood sugar was still fine. today for lunch I had Kraft Mac and cheese… again still fine. can I ask for the 3 hour test? will my insurance still pay for it if I ask for it? after explaining myself to the doctor do you think there is a reason for him to tell me I cant have it?
I am only 34 weeks and my baby is already 7 pounds 5 oz as of last wednesday. that is why I was tested at 32 weeks. I dont know why but everyone in my dr. office gets tested at 16 and 28 weeks
due July 9th~ Gestational Diabetes is diabetes only when pregnant. I am sorry for your friend but she has regular diabetes. not gestational. mine will go away once I give birth.

For the past few days, my blood sugars have been running pretty high (almost always above 200). I also just got out a new Novolog pen the other day cause my old one ran out. I’m not really sure why my numbers have been running so high. This past dinner, my pre-dinner blood sugar was 258, so I injected 3 units to bring my number down in addition to the 4 units that I injected for my 80 or so carbs (I’m on a 1:20 ratio). And now 4 hours later, my blood sugar is 337. It’s not a problem with my test strips. So I am wondering if it is possible that my insulin has a problem with it. It has been refrigerated and kept as it is supposed to be so I don’t think anything is really wrong because of that. I’m wondering if there could have been a problem at the factory. The other thing I think it may be is that my honeymoon phase might be ending. I’ve been diabetic for about 8 months now so I’m due for it to end any day now. I just don’t know how drastic the blood sugar changes should be. My numbers have all been great lately (below 130) for the past month, so I’m a little shocked by this recent spike. Please help.
It’s definitely not air bubbles. Never really have a problem with that.

I’m out of ketostix so I’ll go pick some up tomorrow. :/

How much of a change is it when your honeymoon ends? Is it pretty large and quick?

My husband took Avandia 2003-2005 then took Januvia for a year. He recently had a heart attack and needed a quadruple bypass surgery within a few days. How would we know if its linked to his history with the drug Avandia from his past?

A few months ago I started noticing that even though I was eating the same…I started gaining weight. Then I started getting real shaky about 30 minutes after I ate certain things. If it was a sub, I felt very shaky, hyper, but cloudy headed feeling. If I ate a salad however, I would get so extremely tired but still shaky. Recently I started getting headaches to go along with all this. (I haven’t been able to keep track of the headaches and which type of food they come with)
I don’t eat anything with sugar except bread I guess. I don’t like sweets, and if I have coffee I make it with Sweet & Low. I rarely drink soda, but if I do then it is diet.
I am having some tests done in a few days and I am expecting it to be type 2 diabetes.
The thing that scares the crap out of me is that I am also getting tested for syncope and have to have my heart monitored for 24 hours.
How badly should I stop smoking (2-3 packs a week)? Will that really help my heart and type 2? (If that’s it)
The Syncope that I am being tested for is because I have a history of just passing out whenever. After I eat…..before……whenever it likes to creep up. It could be years in between episodes, or just weeks. It doesn’t happen when I make sudden changes from sitting or laying down, to getting up. Two times ago it happened while I was driving very briefly. This was more of a black out that lasted 2 seconds. My heart was extremely rapid for over 2 hours after and I was exhausted. The hospital didn’t turn anything up. The last time it happened was a few weeks ago. I got up in the middle of the night and I ended up breaking my nose and giving myself a concussion cuz I landed on the floor.

Ok. I’m 16, I have type 1 diabetes and I smoke. I don’t smoke a lot. I usually have 1 every few days, but then on Saturday nights I usually have about 5. Does smoking that little really cause all the same long term consequences? And is there any way I can balance it? Like if I keep my diet really tight and exercise 4 times a week, and still smoke, would I be ok?

Please don’t tell me to quit. Seriously.

I made the mistake of tossing an open(but still in wrapper) glucerna bar in my purse and it would up smoosed in the bottom of my purse. If it was an old purse, I wouldn’t care as much but this purse isn’t even 4 months old yet. I’ve having to resort back to an old purse but I don’t like the old one. The handles are 2 short(I like wearing my new purse like a messenger bag to keep my hands free) and it’s over 2X as big as I need it(nearly 3).

Is there a trick to getting it out(it’s been a few days and still is a little gummy) or should i just replace the purse?

I’m 28 years old. I’ve had a swollen gland on the left side of my neck and pressure in my ear and under my tounge for about two and a half months (the pressure comes and goes through out the day). I went to several doctors and had blood tests done and got my results today: blood count, blood sugar, thyroid, metabolism are all normal and I tested negative for mono (also ears looked fine and I do NOT have a sore throat) I’ve been on two different antibiotcs and have not noticed a satisfactory change. As for the last few days I’ve been painfully tired, dizzy, the lyrics to "Ice, Ice Baby" stuck in my head, lightheaded and having ‘hot spells’ but no chills to speak of. What’s going on ? I’m becoming VERY worried – I’ve never been more stressed in my life! I can’t seem to get a straight answer out of any of these stupid doctor’s !!

Ok so i have been sick with this awful flubug along with a sinus cold. i haven’t eaten a lot in the last few days, the odd piece of toast or a cracker here and there.
I started getting the shakes so i used my husbands blood glucose meter(he a diabetic) to test my blood cause i thought maybe it was low from not being able to eat much, well my sugar level was 8.5 and normal sugar is between 4-7. I had 2 pieces of dry toast this morning but i tested my blood 30 minutes ago.
Should i call my doctor now and tell him or wait until tomorrow to see if things level out a bit?
I’ve been using my hubby’s glucose meter cause my sugar has been up and down through the whole pregnancy and just wanna make sure it doesn’t get to high. i’m just worried that because i haven’t been able to eat much its so high, does anyone know what would cause it to go so high like that?

I have been noticing almost all of the diabetes symptoms in the past few days. Yesterday I was babysitting and had to check my neighbor’s blood sugar so I decided to check mine after I checked his. (I changed everything like the lancet and test strip so it was clean and everything) and my blood sugar was 130. I hadn’t eaten anything in a while but I was wondering if this is for sure meaning I don’t have diabetes? It was kind of a relieve to find it 130 because I thought this meant I am not diabetic but I thought to ask on here to be sure
I share this account with my 2 sisters. 2 of them have diabetes and I am just starting to be concered about it so that’s why there are so many questions like this coming from this account. But I do agree with the opinion thing.

My papa bought me some urine test strips to test for glucose in the urine, from the pharmacy. I tried it out, and the strip stayed the same colour, AKA blue, which sed on the colour guide that it meant negative. so basically there was no colour change. But is it possible I could still have type 1 diabetes, coz i’ve heard lots of people saying it’s not accurate to test diabetes?

Symptoms:
For the last few days I’ve been feeling quite thirsty after about 9 o’clock, then yesterday I felt thirsty for the whole day and drank loads and was going to the toilet every 20 min or so. My period for this month started yesterday though….does anyone else feel thirsty on their period?

Thanks
Dontyellatmeplease,
No.

I had my 28 week appointment and the midwife did a urine strip test and found glucose in my urine. I had had a cup of sugary tea and sugary cereal for breakfast in the morning. However, she did a blood test too but I won’t get the result for a few days.

What are the chances of having gestational diabetes? Has anyone had this happened to them?

I had my 28 week appointment and the midwife did a urine strip test and found glucose in my urine. I had had a cup of sugary tea and sugary cereal for breakfast in the morning. However, she did a blood test too but I won’t get the result for a few days.

What are the chances of having gestational diabetes? Has anyone had this happened to them?