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can diabetes make me feel like this?

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roxy44

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Hi friends,

been dx for 4 months, lost weight etc, numbers down,

but just some times i feel soooooo tired like i have been drugged and need to go to sleep which i usually do lol,
achy, and a slight shakey body, like when you had a an off day before you knew it was diabetes!

can this be down to diabetes? having a diabetic off day kinda thing?
i'm on diet and ex only, numbers are in the 6s which is ok,
i do check my numbers when i feel like this but they seem ok

i know it could be my age, pre menapause etc, but just wondered if it could also be down to diabetes off days?
thanx for reading xx
 
Hi Roxy

Extreme tiredness can be caused by Anaemia, Vitamin D deficiency and Vitamin B12 deficiency. Go to your Doc and get them checked.

Vitamin D deficiency is quite common especially if you stay indoors a lot.

It took 2 1/2 years for my Vitamin D deficiency to be diagnosed, now I'm taking supplements I feel so much better.
 
Like you roxy I have been diagnosed T2 with high readings over the past 4 months. I am now on Metformin just 1 x 500 and I am also on Atorvastatin, thyroxine, nebivolol, irbesartan and digoxin.
Every day I have severe periods where I feel so tired almost to the point of comatosed and have these awful hot sweats in the head which are making me feel so uncomfortable I am withdrawing from the outside world somewhat. My readings are much lower now between 7.5 and 9 (down from 15 - 17)
so I can't understand it. I truly sympathise with you and just wish someone could tell me whether this is normal with diabetes and will subside or something one is going to have to tolerate hereafter. I wish you well.
 
Hi
Other than the two other deficiency being mentioned i wonder if you have had your thyroid tested, as over active or under active Thyroid can also give these symptoms, if it continues please contact your gp or diabetic nurse
 
Hi Roxy,

I don't know if I am getting you mixed up with someone else but I seem to remember that you suffer from anaemia?

Now that your diabetes is under control then you certainly should not be feeling like this. As others have said you need to see your G.P. and get any appropriate tests. Do not self medicate with supplements as too much of a vitamin is as bad as too little and you cannot possible know if your levels are low without testing.

Hope things improve soon.

Take care.

CC.
 
thanks for your advice.
yes its me with the aneamia lol..but when i went for my blood test, that came as okish, i still take iron tablets,

my BS is very rarely over 10, usually 5s before food, then in the 7s and sometimes the 9s after food,
i am wondering if its a woman thing, with being 50, last few days havent been too bad, but this is what happens, then all of a sudden it can come on, but i will go to the GPs if it carried on

thanx again xxx
 
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