Type 2 diabetes questions and answers
Common Questions and Answers about Type 2 diabetes questions and answers
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Endocrine - produces insulin
Exocrine - produces digestive juices
Pancreatic disease(s) may affect the Endocrine making it not produce insulin as in type 1 diabetes. If you have your type 2 diabetes under control and no other issue with your pancreas, would this come into play? Only a doctor can answer this. Perhaps a forum member has had this happen and would enter a thread on their history.
My 15yrs old brother was diagnosed with diabetes 2 days ago. He had all the symptoms but we never realized until now. he has been admitted to the hospital his blood sugar level was 592 its now down to 350 . My mother was diagnosed with diabetes after she had him and he has been over weight for nearly half of his life.
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I'm 31 and have had type 1 diabetes for 16 years - so far, no complications. I've struggled over the last year with Interstitial Cystitis symptoms (had pelvic floor therapy) and recurrent group B strep in urine cultures.
It is common for me to experience a small tear in my perineum area and it usually takes a week to heal. I've been told this is because I have fragile tissue due to diabetes. It's been a week since I last "tore" and it hasn't healed.
We moved, and my new PCP said it wasnt bells palsy but to go to a NS and get it checked out. I had a asthma and bronchitis 2-3 times a year and headaches, the paralysis on the left side of my face and a slight limp (I kinda drag my left leg). I dont know what kind of surgery I had other than spinal decompression and the used a man made graph. Again I was 11, so I wasnt really informed. Ive seen a neurologist in the past few yrs for neurological syncope (is that drop attacks?
Some people are able to control Type 2 diabetes with losing and maintaining healthy weight, lowering carb intake and regular exercise. Some are not, and need medication. It is impossible to answer your question because every diabetic is different and it would depend on how high your numbers were to begin with and what you ate and did. Serious consequences (complications) from diabetes don't occur in 24 hours, they occur over time spent at high numbers.
My 2 yr olds father has type 1 diabetes (since he was 3) My son has shown many signs and he is only 2 1/2, we have some blood test ordered right now, but I heard something today that I was curious about, my coworker told me that 80% of our first borns genes comes from his father, is this correct? Does he have that much of a chance to have this?
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I am not a physician, but a mom of a type one and the daughter of a type 2. In a type one diabetic commonly called Juvenile diabetes( because it usually is diagnoses in children , but I know people that were in they 30's and 40's and were diagnosed) is when the body stop s producing insulin.
Type 2 diabetics your body still produces insulin, but cannot use it properly use the insulin without help of medication.
I'm confused. I have seen several postings with two digit type numbers that are not A1Cs, but self-test numbers. What is this "looks like a pen diagnostic machine" ? Is it something different that a regular glucose meter?
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