I'm constantly tired. I can get 7 hours sleep, and still be tired, I can get 10 and still be tired. Unless I'm asleep, I'm always thirsty and drink whatever comes to hand to try and stop it; it doesn't work. Due to this, I'm constantly needing the toilet. I have to wear glasses anyway, but every so often, my vision goes really blurry and I have to concentrate really hard to get it back again. If I don't eat anything for about four - six hours, my hands start to shake. Not the 'if you look closely' but really bad; as in I have to stop what I'm doing until it stops which only uses stops when I eat something sweet? And yes, I'm overweight. Is it likely I have diabetes or? I have a doctors appointment on Monday too... what should I ask about?
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Is it likely I'm diabetic?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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yes, you do
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It's kind of easy and also kind of hard to see if you have diabetes. These symptoms all have something to do with being diabetic. But be careful. Everything is not what it seems. This could all be symptoms of other things too. all these have something to do with your question. Do you have increasing hunger or weight loss? These are answers that have to be answered too. If you get cuts, and they don't heal up, then that is a big answer. Just go to the doctor on monday. Ask him/her to give you a test.
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Other than the "shaking" thing and your being overweight, it seems like that you have Diabetes. I have all those symptoms and I am a bonafide diabetic. The surefire way to know is to have your BLOOD SUGAR tested.
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tell your doctor all about how you feel and get blood works and show the lab results to him
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Repliers Mansour, Jeannette, &d filipino gave the correct advice.
I know, I've been diabetic over 10 yrs.It seems like the end of the world, at first, it is NOT!
The good news is that if you're under 20, or in your early 20's, a proper diet, losing extra weight, & exercise might help a lot, may/may not cure you, and could reverse many the symptoms.You MUST get this assessed by a REAL doctor. You'll likely have to go for a nice set of blood tests, where they take about 5 vials of blood. Sounds bad, IS NOT!
You'll likely take a fasting blood glucose test. There are several versions of it.
They usually involved getting up early in the morning to go have a blood test. You'll have to fast the evening before, for 8 - 12 hrs, no food, pop, coffee, etc, only the odd sip of water. (Sounds hard, but is doable, I been there, done that!)In the morning, after you've fed the vampires, they may (or may not, depending on what your doctor ordered) make you drink a solution of sugar & other stuff. Tastes like crap. The grape flavor is best. You may (or may not...) then be sent off for a 1 hr "walk around the mall", if so, they'll take another vial or 2 of blood, then send you home. They need all this blood to clone you. Have you not heard? They want to replace Tom Cruise. Won't be you... It'll be the blasted clone.
You may have to take another test, involving, again, a charming fast. Sack cloth & ashes optional. You may chant prayers during the fast, if the mood hits... The next morning, the vampires feed (another 5 or 6 vials)... and... you get sent off to eat a meal, at your expense, and they'll even tell you what to eat. Then you go back and feed the vampires, again. Been there, done that.
Then you'll likely be started on 1, 2, or 3 types of pills, the most common are Glyburide & Metformin. I disrecall the 3rd pill's name. You'll have to get a meter & check your blood sugar level. This is important, because the drugs make your sugar levels fall very quickly, and "hitting zero" is a bad idea... The neat part is, the meter makes you nerdish, and you get to freak all the jerks around you by checking your blood sugar, and requiring things. (Everyone feels sorry for you. Sucker them in, while you can...)
You'll then likely enter a period of remission, a month or 6 later. You'll think you were cured, but unfortunately, it is just a honey moon. The odds are like 99% you won't be "cured", and the diabetes comes back with a vengeance, before it levels off & behaves itself. I been there, and I made it through! So Can You!
Another thing that happens, is a period of severe depression. Usually before the first year is up. So, get upbeat, beat the depression! It goes away. within a couple of months. I made it.
Along the while, you will, at some time have the famous Pee-Test. They give you a 5 gallon plastic jug, that looks like a clear gas can. You get to pee in it, and fill it to the brim. Enjoy! (Another fun way to drive friends & family crazy!) Now then, to fill a dammed 5 gallon jug, takes about 8 gallons of water.... You gonna be peeing like a racehorse! Make the most of it. You get to be crude, lewd, vivacious, horny, and a royal pain in the @ss, so go for it.
Finally, about a year later, things settle down, and you either will be diabetic for life, and they will give you more scare stories than a Hitchcock movie. It ain't that bad if you take care of yourself, so don't panic. Millions have been there, done that, and moved on. Likely, you will too.
OR, OR... they might discover that if you lose a few pounds, watch the diet, exercise a bit, and wow the ladies, you ain't really diabetic. So that is like, being told: "Hey dude, you got a date with the firing squad at 8-AM tomorrow, so don't be late!" ... And then finding out you got a date with, oh, I dunno, Paris Hilton, instead. Sucks, yes, but it beats the alternative.
So, be good, be brave, and carry on smiling, old chap. And if you smoke, then, you now have a perfect excuse to quit. If you were a slob, you have a perfect excuse to shape up. Just don't go turn into a crazy Shwartzenegger clone on us.
Oh, yes, and Mr Bond, do dispose of that clone they made of you.... He's climbing over Oprah's bloody couch, again...
Carry on. Keep in touch with y/a, and follow the advice the 3 wise persons gave you up above..
Posted 2 years ago #
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