Symptoms of Diabetes?
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| Tue, 06-01-2004 - 2:00am |
I was wondering if you could help me out with some advice. I haven't been feeling quite myself for about a year now, and I am wondering if it might possibly be diabetes. I went to the doctor about 8 months ago and after telling him my symptoms he told me it sounds like anemia or stress, but after taking iron pills for months I feel no better, and I doubt it is stress as I have it pretty easy! Some days are "good" days for me, where I feel fine throughout the day, but other days I feel uncoordinated and have difficulty thinking clear, concentrating, and sometimes even talking. My whole body feels "unbalanced" and I know that something is not right. It seems to be worse if I consume sugar, I have noticed that if I am having a "good" day and then I drink a can of coke it throws everything off. Also, if I don't eat properly my body does not function properly or feel good. I have also been thinking it might be a vitamin B12 deficiency, but I am now taking a daily multi vitamin and I see no improvement. I am tempted to see my doctor again, but if it is just anemia or stress (or something else minor) I will feel like a nuisance and I don't want to waste the doctors time. What I am asking of you is to tell me how you felt before you were diagnosed with diabetes (what made you decide to see your doctor?)and how you feel when your sugar level is too high. I have looked it up on the internet but found very little on the symptoms, only that it damages your eyes, and you feel excessive thirst (yes!) and hunger.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated!
~Jolene

Hi Jolene!
Welcome to the board Jolene. I suggest that if you are not feeling good to see your doctor to request having both a diabetes and hypoglycemic test run since what you have been feeling can be either of those causing it. Besides your not being a bother to your doctor at all especially if he is getting paid for seeing you.
My apologies for not being able to tell you how I felt before I was diagnosed, but I was only 6 years old when i was diagnosed as being diabetic in which now I have been for over 29 years now. I really hope that you get in to be tested since it is so much better to be safe than sorry. Do let us know what you find out after being tested since we will be thinking of you. Take care and do have a super day!
~Jolene
Hi Cinnibuns,
Welcome to the board. There are a cluster of symptoms..about 10 in all that are found in diabetes. You have listed having most of them and so I am glad you saw your physician and were diagnosed appropriately. Howmoften do you get your A1C checked?
I was talking to a woman at the gyn tonight who was diagnosed last September. She was amazed that when she started eating a diabetic eating plan that she was able to lose weight. In all she has lost 30 pounds and gotten her blood sugar under control.
All of us certainly feel so awful when we are diagnosed and when we get our blood sugars under control we are amazed at how much better we feel. So diagnosis of diabetes or not is important to get. It is certainly better than worrying about what it could be that is making us feel so bad.
Congratulations on your success and I hope you will stay around and join our converstaion.
A hardy welcoming cheer,
Mary Frances
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Co-CL Diabetes Board