How does Type 1 Diabetes affect you
Physical:
Intellectual:
Emotional:
Social:
Thank you in advance!
Its for coursework btw
Physically: My thighs hurt from the shot I get at night that stings. Sometimes a shot won’t go in right, or I get a bleeder. My fingers are covered in calluses and sometimes are really painful. Measuring out my food helps me take control of my serving sizes and stops me from eating chips on the couch for an entire day. I won’t be overweight anytime soon.
Intellectually: I had never learned about diabetes before. I thought you got it from eating too much sugar and being fat. I thought you never had a low blood sugar when you had diabetes, and if you did, it was gone. Then, I spent three days in the hospital getting diagnosed. Those days have changed my life forever. I am a lot smarter. I know a lot more about diabetes (everything!).
Emotionally: I cry a lot for everything. I cry for the pain. I cry because I know it won’t ever end. I cry because I know that if it ever does end, it’ll probably end in surgery. I cry because I know I have lost years from my life. I cry because I know if I have this for the rest of my life, my nerves will be less. My kidneys will suffer, my eyes will suffer, my skin will suffer, my extremities will suffer. I cry because it could result in amputation. I cry because I know many others are crying.
Social: I meet other friends with diabetes, sometimes. www.tudiabetes.com helps me with that a lot. But sometimes people don’t approach me because of how I might be contagious (which I, and everyone who has diabetes, am not!). People think I am weird, sickly, strange. I am not. I am a normal person with a disease. A hidden disease.
1.) How frequent does a diabetic drink in an hour? A day?
2.) How frequent does a diabetic urinate?
3.) How often does a diabetic get hungry? How much food does he/she diabetic intake?
4.) If a person is thin and does not loose weight, but experiences some Symptoms of Diabetes, would it still be possible for that person to have diabetes?
5.) How long would it take for the wounds of a diabetic to heal? Would it be possible that it wouldn’t heal?
6.) Can a diabetic feel tired or unwell even if he/she does nothing? How much work can a diabetic do before he/she gets tired?
7.) What does "sudden" vision changes mean?
8.) Does a person have to have all the symptoms before he/she is pronounced to have diabetes? If not, what are the main symptoms?
These are all my concerns about diabetes. It would be better if your answer/s rely on other’s or your experience/s.
P.S.
I have read the symptoms at this site:
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/faq/basics.htm#2
1 and 2 depend’s on the diabetic’s level. As it goes up they increase with me but also i have heard with other’s when it goes down the same thing happen’s
3 it really depend’s on the age, it’s pretty much normal. But i have heard that high’s and Low’s will affect them, but not with me.
4 Not sure how this relate’s….. High’s can effect Weight. I used to wake up at 400 and vomit and lost way too much weight and went down to about 60 Pound’s at ( year’s of age
5 Same thing, High’s can make it harder for wound’s to heal. It has really never happened to me
6 Yes when i get High, I cannot run as much without getting more tired. When i get low i feel very vauge and tired or limp from the Low sign’s. But mostly it’s normal what a Diabetic can do campaired to a normal person
7 This happened to me i was 20/20 and my diabetie’s got out of control i went back because i was having trouble seeing and it went down to 20/60 or something like that.
8 No, not all of the symptom’s at all, some may show but not all of them. Some symptom’s are……
Shakyness
Feeling Limp or Tired
Major Thirst
Hungry all the time
Peeing Alot
Being mean/Uritible ( SP? )
"Fruity breath"
Major Head aches
That’s all i can think of, Hope i can help 
I had my vision checked and was told to watch out for Glaucoma, The readings were high.. I have had Gestational Diabetes and are frequently thirsty and use the restroom alot. I had a HGBA1C test done and it was normal as well. What should I do now?
There are different types of glaucoma and most have nothing to do with diabetes. Secondary glaucoma with diabetes is usually associated with someone whose diabetes is out of control. With that said, if you’re still concerned that you might have diabetes you should have a glucose tolerance test which is best at catching early diabetes that other tests miss. As far as your eyes go, just make sure you stay on top of having your eyes examined. Sometimes for those at high risk preventative drops have been used. speak with your doctor about your concerns. Take care and good luck.
My husband is leery of attempting a pregnancy because I have Type 2 Diabetes. I have read about it, and while it is considered high risk, the success rates appear very positive.
Your ideas please.
I just had my 10 week ultra sound and we saw 2 babies. Just the shock of that was enough.Then I went to the Perinatal clinic [ in the same hospital ] and the nurse was looking for the doppler to listen for the baby’s heart beat. I said I just had the ultra sound and guess what, It’s twins !
She gasp and said, "great , that’s just what I don’t need. You are a high enough risk anyway just having diabetes "
It was so funny. Like it was her pregnancy.
It is a lot of work being pregnant with type 2 diabetes. I ended up taking a very high amount of insulin.And there are loads of tests.
You should see a perinatologist prior to becoming pregnant to know each other and get in the best possible diabetes control you can.You will have to get off of oral meds and go on Insulin.It’s not really that hard.
My A1c through out was 7.5 and all was well.
Good luck and best wishes.
I have Type 2 and I take metformin (Glucophage) and glimepiride (Amaryl), in addition to 30 IU of 24-hour insulin (Lantus) and about 100 IU of rapid acting Insulin (Humalog 2-3 hr) each day.
My blood glucose is not controlled really well. It skates along in the 150-200 mg/dL range.
If I am to get my blood glucose under control, how often can I expect to have a hypoglycemic episode?
If you get your glucose under control, you won’t have hypoglycemic episodes. That would not define control. As far adding as protein snacks, don’t do anything without your doctor’s knowledge and advice. Make sure your doctor is aware of your daily levels. Dosage adjusments may be in order.
I’m doing some research for something about diabetes type one, and i was wondeing what are the things that can happen, and does it happen if you are using inselin and eating right? If you have any info or web sites that i can check out, please let me know. Thanks!
Go to dlife.com. A site for diabetics and full of info. But the first thing that comes to mind on your question is, are you looking at someone who is treating their diabetes or someone who doesn’t follow guidelines and is out of control. Death is the major thing for someone who doesn’t take care, amputations, blindness, lose of kidney function are just a few others.
It has been obsereved that Diabetes occurs in people suffering from obesity.There should be some correlation between the two.This may be due to some physioloic,genetic,immunologic or some other factor.As a student of biotechnology,i wanted to know the precise relation between them and the mechanism by which they affect each other.I would also be thankful if some good websites for exploration of this topic are suggested.
if you eat too much food you get fat and then get all kinds of medical problems that taxpayers have to pay for
stop eating so much fatsos
what are the first Symptoms of Diabetes 2 ?
More often than not… none. I had no noticeable symptoms at all. My type two was discovered during a routine physical.
There was a question here on answers a few days ago asking what your reading was when you were diagnosed. Judging by the other answers, which were several times higher than my numbers, I would say that most people go for years undiagnosed. As I look back, I did have mild symptoms for a couple of years prior to being diagnosed. Tired and grumpy come to mind. Most of these people who are citing these symptoms are either repeating what they’ve heard or read in a book or on a website, or were so far advanced that the symptoms were more pronounced. It comes on so gradually, that most folks don’t even notice the symptoms for years. Read this:
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-symptoms.jsp
I think i may have Type 2 Diabetes, i am going to get a blood test tomorrow. Just wondering how it effects peoples lives?
In my case, it woke me up. If I didn’t change my eating and exercising habits, that I would end up dying a slow and miserable death like my mom did. Since then, learning all I could about healthy eating, along with daily exercise, has helped me to regain my health and stop taking medication.
Two months or so ago, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. A few days ago (and a little bit for a few weeks), I started getting this awful weakness in my legs and arms. Sometimes it feels like they’re heavy, like I’ll flip. Or they’re too light and I’ll flip over. It feels like I’m going to fall down. I know this is something that can come out of diabetes… but this is really soon! Is it even related? Should I call my doctor/educators? How do they treat this?
Thanks!
no, that’s not normal. you shouldn’t develop secondary complications in two months! speak to your doc about this. It doesn’t sound like neuropathy because that is normally a pins and needles type sensation or numbness.
