Comments on: Diabetes??!!? http://www.hitdecisions.com/diabetes-10/ medical questions and answers. Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:38:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: pbsterling http://www.hitdecisions.com/diabetes-10/comment-page-1/#comment-1345 pbsterling Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:39:34 +0000 http://hitdecisions.com/diabetes-10/#comment-1345 First of all the outward symptoms of type 1 and 2 are virtually the same. The body is reacting to high blood sugar levels - how the levels got high are not at issue. The body dumps the extra sugar into the urine (hence why you are thirsty and have to pee a lot). You lose weight because the body can't use glucose for energy (insulin resistance or lack of insulin) thus it feed off of your body fat. This is dangerous because it leads to ketone acidosis. Does your breath smell like fruit? Step one for you is to go to your doctor and get an Hemoglobin A1C test (replaced the glucose tolerance test which was horrible). This test measures average glucose in your blood stream over a 3 month period. Glucose permanently bonds to hemoglobin in the blood. The higher the concentration of glycosylated hemoglobin - the higher your average blood sugar was. If the results of this test are significantly greater than 7% - you are diabetic. The next step is for the doctor to determine the type, 1 or 2. However, since you indicate you are 61, you are most likely a type 2 - adult onset diabetes. Type 1 normally develops in children. I was diagnosed over ten years ago. The drugs are a pain but it is a disease you can live with. First of all the outward symptoms of type 1 and 2 are virtually the same. The body is reacting to high blood sugar levels – how the levels got high are not at issue. The body dumps the extra sugar into the urine (hence why you are thirsty and have to pee a lot). You lose weight because the body can’t use glucose for energy (insulin resistance or lack of insulin) thus it feed off of your body fat. This is dangerous because it leads to ketone acidosis. Does your breath smell like fruit?

Step one for you is to go to your doctor and get an Hemoglobin A1C test (replaced the glucose tolerance test which was horrible). This test measures average glucose in your blood stream over a 3 month period. Glucose permanently bonds to hemoglobin in the blood. The higher the concentration of glycosylated hemoglobin – the higher your average blood sugar was.

If the results of this test are significantly greater than 7% – you are diabetic.

The next step is for the doctor to determine the type, 1 or 2. However, since you indicate you are 61, you are most likely a type 2 – adult onset diabetes. Type 1 normally develops in children.

I was diagnosed over ten years ago. The drugs are a pain but it is a disease you can live with.

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