Thyroid and ketones
Common Questions and Answers about Thyroid and ketones
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You might also want to have your thyroid checked. I had Graves disease and ate and ate but actually lost weight. Graves disease is an overactive thyroid. Sometimes when you have diabetes you can develop other endocrine system diseases. I am not trying to scare you or make people think once you have diabetes you will develop another disease, but there is the possibility.
After a few days on Bactrim, her mouth broke out in sores and her throat and lips swelled, and the doctor correctly diagnosed it as Stevens Johnson Syndrome, and immediately stopped the Bactrim and hospitalized her. The sores did not spread externally beyond her mouth, however while in the hospital she experienced black diarrhea, and continued to have some diarrhea and vomiting after they released her a few days later.
First of all if you are still thirsty, loosing weight and having ketones, you are not in control. Ketones happen when your blood sugar is too high and your body is breaking down fat to get you energy, therefore you are loosing weight. These are all signs that you are NOT in control. and heading for ketonacidocisis. (Ketonacidosis can lead to serious problems such as coma is the levels are too high for too long.
Hope you are doing better, and getting treatment for diabetic and thyroid problems. The latter is often treated with just a daily medication, in the morning before breakfast is my experience. Diabetes can be very difficult and may be the problem behind infections, how is you blood test results, especially white blood cells? If the WBC count is low you will likely not be as resistant to health problems as one with normal WBC counts...these are the cells that fight infections and disease.
s endocrinologist has recommended that she test her urine for ketones if her bg is over 170 as she is on an insulin pump. Ketones can poison the body and some action should be taken if the urine test strip indicates that they are present. Ketones are a warning sign that your diabetes may be out of control or that you are getting sick. Ketones are flushed from your body by drinking lots and lots of water or non-caloric fluids. Ketoacidosis can occur if the ketones are not flushed immediately.
I went to the doctor and the found a high amount of protein in my urine, and also ketones, but no sugar in. (I was tested about two hours after a large meal too, so the ketones were not out of starvation, and I do not exercise.) They have always seen protein in my urine also. At times though, I can tell my blood sugar goes down a lot, because I get very shaky, and at other times when my blood sugar is not low, I sometime black out for a second, get very dizzy, and faint.
When people are sick, they often do not feel like eating. Then, high ketones may result. High ketones may also occur when someone misses a meal.
3. An insulin reaction (low blood glucose). When blood glucose levels fall too low, the body must use fat to get energy. If testing shows high ketones in the morning, the person may have had an insulin reaction while asleep.
If you puff on moldy pot you put yourself at risk for unknown infections.
If you have not been fasting, but are depressed (which is a direct result, often, of MS) and not eating that will also cause you produce ketones in your blood.
Also, diabetics who are slipping out of control produce a lot of ketones and may test positively.
The other problem, and I don't know how common this is, is that one of the tests used for testing for alcohol is SOoo sensitive that it gives false positives all the time and several advocacy groups have come out against its use.
I had a very rough pregnancy when I had excessive nausea and vomitting (hyperemesis) where a real cause was never found- and since I was starving I had ketones in my urine on several occasions and had to be hospitalized. I'm wondering if maybe these events to my body triggered diabetes. My GF was diagnosed with type 1 at age 25.
I am not excessively thirsty, maybe a little more so. I attributed it to breastfeeding.
Hi, diabetes has not been ruled out, and now that you mentioned it i made blood and urine test prior to h pylori treatment and sugar levels where normal only thing that stood out was ketones in urine.Ultrasound of abdomen and liver tests where ok.And the doctor said that excess ketones was due to diet that i had because of diet on which i had been due to gastritis.
Also i must say i have sometimes blurred vision and weakness.
Hi. I'm not a medical professional, just the parent of a kid with diabetes. Any ketones are bad, and need to be dealt with immediately with insulin. Depending on the reason for the ketones, they can last that long, but it's not typical. 3 days is a long time to go with ketones. When ketones last that long, the amount of insulin given to treat it must be increased until the ketones go away. Simply giving extra is not enough. Thanks for being so concerned about your student.
OK, so my Dr said my urinalysis came back with trace of ketones and protein in my urine. He said its probably not significant and should check it again another day.
Can someone tell me how common or uncommon that is? I hadnt eatin like like 16 hours before hand, except for alittle something maybe 20 minutes before I gave the urine sample. Could this have caused it?
I was really worried since I get cloudy urine after eating dairy, and only after dairy.
what are ketones and what problems do they bring about?
For example, this morning before I had eaten a bite, my blood sugar was 406. I checked my urine for ketones at that time and it showed moderate to high amounts of ketones in my urine. This afternoon after I ate, my blood sugar was 521 and I checked for ketones again. On the second check, it was negative to a trace. Does anyone have any ideas what could cause this to happen? From going high to moderate amounts to none at all?
Please, be calm but try to incorporate as soon as you can sweet fruits (bananas, apples, peaches), and other meals. Good example are potatotes and bread. While more liquid you drink, less posibility to retain glucose (carbos)
While I was pregnant of my daughter I didnt eat nothing that a soup during a whole day. I lost so much weight and my doctor just said "good for you, your lossing weight". I lost the normal level of water and get bad. A new doctor sent me to a good nutrition.
I just noticed your reply and wanted to encourage you to test for ketones and to avoid getting high levels of ketones. From the little bit of reading I've done, ketones can harm your baby severely.
Are you diabetic? Gestational diabetes? Type 1? Type 2? If so, it's important that you work with a high risk pregnancy team. It's not "right" that the medical team of a diabetic pregnant woman couldn't answer the question "what are ketones?
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