Diabetes symptoms

[Wurst]

Hi All,
I've been trawling the web for an answer to this but am getting nowhere.
I'm awaiting results from a second HB1AC test next week and since the first i've got my average fasting levels from 10 mmol/l to 5.5 mmol/l by diet and loosing weight in around 1.5 months. Looking at the information available i am now in the pre-diabetic range.

What my query concerns is diabetes symptoms. If you levels are regularly low can you expect to see symptoms such as bad eyesight , thirst etc or does this only apply when blood sugar levels are continously high. The only symptom i experienced when i had high levels of 10 mmom/l + (before i was diagnosed) was fatigue which i didn't correlate to diabetes at the time.

Anyone know anything about this or have some experience. (My diabetes specialist only speaks German so i'm a bit stuck).

 

[hose1975]

Hi,

I don't know if this would help but I got one of my German friends to translate your question into German. You could show it to your doctor and ask them to write down the reply; maybe then post it back here and I can get it translated back into English for you?

Anyway, try this:

Meine Frage ist über die Symptome von Diabetes. Wenn der Blutzucker/Glucose-Spiegel regelmäßig niedrig bleibt, kann man Symptome wie schlechtes Sehvermögen, Durst, usw. haben oder ist das nur der Fall wenn der Blutzuckerspiegel kontinuierlich hoch ist? Das einzige Symptom, dass bei mir aufgetreten ist als ich einen Spiegel von 10 mmom/l + (bevor ich diagnostiziert worden bin), war Erschöpfung, welche ich damals nicht mit Diabetes in Verbindung brachte.

Best wishes

Jo

 

[emmanueltio]

These are the symptoms I have right now:

1. Abnormal, intense thirst.
2. Frequent and copious urination.
3. Frequent hunger.
4. Sudden, unexplained weight loss.
5. Slow-healing cuts, bruises or skin infections.
6. Recurrent infections.
7. Alternating clear and blurred vision.
8. Unexplained weakness and extreme exhaustion.
9. Genital itching or impotence.
10. Tingling and numbness of feet.

* From Lam Lye Ching's article entitled "DIABETES The Hidden Epidemic" page 78, January 1999 Issue.

I have a normal blood level but I usually suffer from symptoms above. I hope that I am not a diabetic later on. I just suffer from loss of breathing if I eat wrong food sometimes.

I hope that I helped.

 

[Daibell]

Hi Emmanuelto. How was your blood sugar measured? Have you had a Glucose Tolerance Test or HBa1C? Your current symptoms are very similar to those of a diabetic at diagnosis but of course there can be other causes

 

[chop363]

Re:diabetes and redundncy

hello i have recently been made redundant i have had diabetes type 1 for 24 years i worked for the company for 17 years last year i was off work for 3 months with a foot ulcer i returned to light duties in janurary doing computer work as the company were getting me some special made shoes for my ulcer dyring this time my job was covered by another person as was on light duties and off sick before i was unable to train on 2 machines which lost me out on my score in the matrix for redundancy the company never said this was the case and said they had not taken my absence into account does this class as predudice towards my diabetes