Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 I've been told I like to sleep a lot. One of my friends told me I could have diabetes. This was sometime last year. Becky Question for type 2's > I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a > type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with > symptoms, > but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. > > That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. > > Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? > How > long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? > > I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a > review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people > who > could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help > them. > > Thanks for your assistance. > > Dave > > > " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome > the > world. " [ 16:33] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Extreme fatigue and tiredness can be a sign of high blood sugar. It probably would not hurt for you to get checked out. Re: Question for type 2's I've been told I like to sleep a lot. One of my friends told me I could have diabetes. This was sometime last year. Becky Question for type 2's > I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a > type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with > symptoms, > but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. > > That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. > > Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? > How > long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? > > I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a > review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people > who > could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help > them. > > Thanks for your assistance. > > Dave > > > " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome > the > world. " [ 16:33] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 I know I'm type 2 now. The last time my sugar was 142. Becky Question for type 2's > > >> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a >> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >> symptoms, >> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >> >> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >> >> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >> How >> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >> >> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >> who >> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >> them. >> >> Thanks for your assistance. >> >> Dave >> >> >> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >> the >> world. " [ 16:33] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 I did notice in 2001 and 2002 that after I ate a meal I got sort of the feeling of being on drugs or medicine that made me sleepy. I've always been over weight, maybe I did put on extra, but can't say for sure. many times during a 2 year period I would get confused all of a sudden like for no reason and have a hard time thinking straight. some times I would even feel real tired and it felt like it came over me a few hours after eating. the saw bones was taking blood all this time, but he never said anything about me being a type 2 diabetic until around the fall of 02. of course like many type two's I ignored what the blood test said and I continued eating what ever I wished and of course my sugar went higher and out of control. I'm all most certain the ways I would feel those couple of years was because of my sugar. my doc wasn't a diabetes doctor and no one in my family that I knew of was a diabetic. so I never took it serious until my A1C was out of control and I felt like crap. even to day if I eat to many carbs at a meal I will have those same feelings just like I had in the beginning back in 01 and 02. I later found out some in the family like cousins were as well type 2, but they all kept it very quiet. maybe they were ashamed I suppose. maybe I would have come near believing I was a type 2 diabetic when the saw bones told me if I knew some other kin was as well. I do know now and understand that type 2 diabetes can be prevented by not getting over weight and exercising daily. you who are type 1 aren't in control like we two's are and still most of us continue to ignore the disease and do nothing to change our life style. I've even thought of joining over eaters just to get a handle on it better, but it has to first start with my own attitude and no one else can change it but me. I use to make fun of folks who had addictions to alcohol and drugs and the such. Well everything that goes around, comes back around and I find my self with a eating addiction. we don't have to drink or smoke to live, but we dain sure got to eat to live. I have a good buddy who stopped drinking alcohol over 25 years ago and he says not one day goes by that he doesn't think of how good a beer or glass of wine would taste. the same goes with a lady I know who stopped smoking for more then ten years and one day she just started smoking again. she said every day during the years she wasn't smoking she always craved one. I notice the same thing with my self after I have ate well for a few months and my A1C is where it needs to be. then I just fall off the wagon and I remain off for a long time before I finally get back on. then I will do it all over again. Some of you guys on this list amaze me how easy you seem to get along with your diabetes. you got piles of will power or you are simply stronger then the disease and can stick better then most I know. it is a daily struggle for some of us no matter what the addiction is. I know first hand how eating wrong will make me feel and still I will continue to eat what I shouldn't. I have ask my self why! why! why! and yet I can't seem to find the will power or the strength to stay the path of good A1C and always be in control. I simply like many like me allow food to control me instead of I controlling it. I'm beginning to think there is a deeper rooted problem with me that caused the over eating that I'm not aware of at this time. maybe if I was to figure this cause out, then dealing with controlling my diabetes would be much easier. Question for type 2's > I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a > type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with > symptoms, > but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. > > That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. > > Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? > How > long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? > > I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a > review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people > who > could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help > them. > > Thanks for your assistance. > > Dave > > > " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome > the > world. " [ 16:33] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 frequent urination constant thirst ________________________________ To: blind-diabetics <blind-diabetics > Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:30 PM Subject: Question for type 2's I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with symptoms, but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? How long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people who could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help them. Thanks for your assistance. Dave " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. " [ 16:33] ------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 For me, when my sugar is a bit elevated, I feel like my entire body is numb. anyone felt this way before? sugar 'Real tears are not those that fall from your eyes and cover your face, but that fall from your heart and cover your soul.' ~Be Blessed, Sugar Question for type 2's > > >> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a >> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >> symptoms, >> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >> >> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >> >> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >> How >> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >> >> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >> who >> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >> them. >> >> Thanks for your assistance. >> >> Dave >> >> >> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >> the >> world. " [ 16:33] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 I know the feeling. I love a lot of good food, and wonder why I don't have much energy. I'm ashamed to admit sometimes it is hard to get up out of bed. Becky Question for type 2's > > >> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a >> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >> symptoms, >> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >> >> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >> >> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >> How >> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >> >> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >> who >> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >> them. >> >> Thanks for your assistance. >> >> Dave >> >> >> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >> the >> world. " [ 16:33] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Interesting, Dave. my uneventful change from non-diabetic to diabetic may not help or your character could slump into a coma for apparently no reason and after someone was put in jail they found out he had had diabetes. Woops, off track here. On my account, Ihad a regular bloodtest from the doc for whatever and it came back with my reading 126. I had gotten married a couple of days before so I blew it off for a short time till my husband told me I really did have it. I had no symptoms to my knowledge I always ate carbs and sugar. To this day they still make me happy, then tired, but back then it was just happy,, sometimes silly. I gained weight but very gradually. Vicki Meizinger -- " I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. " ( 11:25-26) The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand. -Psalm 37:23-24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Can you check your sugar when you feel like this? Re: Question for type 2's I know the feeling. I love a lot of good food, and wonder why I don't have much energy. I'm ashamed to admit sometimes it is hard to get up out of bed. Becky Question for type 2's > > >> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a >> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >> symptoms, >> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >> >> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >> >> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >> How >> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >> >> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >> who >> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >> them. >> >> Thanks for your assistance. >> >> Dave >> >> >> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >> the >> world. " [ 16:33] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Oh yes, Sugar. I feel like it is just too much energy to even move! Re: Question for type 2's For me, when my sugar is a bit elevated, I feel like my entire body is numb. anyone felt this way before? sugar 'Real tears are not those that fall from your eyes and cover your face, but that fall from your heart and cover your soul.' ~Be Blessed, Sugar Question for type 2's > > >> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a >> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >> symptoms, >> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >> >> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >> >> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >> How >> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >> >> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >> who >> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >> them. >> >> Thanks for your assistance. >> >> Dave >> >> >> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >> the >> world. " [ 16:33] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Mark, Overeaters is a great program to join as they often help people like you who don't really know why they are such overeaters. Everything that comes out in these meetings is kept secret, so you don't have to worry about things getting out that you don't want other to know. I have a friend who joined a number of years ago. She went from way over 300 pounds to her normal weight in a couple of years and also learned what her overeating problem was due to. Re: Question for type 2's I did notice in 2001 and 2002 that after I ate a meal I got sort of the feeling of being on drugs or medicine that made me sleepy. I've always been over weight, maybe I did put on extra, but can't say for sure. many times during a 2 year period I would get confused all of a sudden like for no reason and have a hard time thinking straight. some times I would even feel real tired and it felt like it came over me a few hours after eating. the saw bones was taking blood all this time, but he never said anything about me being a type 2 diabetic until around the fall of 02. of course like many type two's I ignored what the blood test said and I continued eating what ever I wished and of course my sugar went higher and out of control. I'm all most certain the ways I would feel those couple of years was because of my sugar. my doc wasn't a diabetes doctor and no one in my family that I knew of was a diabetic. so I never took it serious until my A1C was out of control and I felt like crap. even to day if I eat to many carbs at a meal I will have those same feelings just like I had in the beginning back in 01 and 02. I later found out some in the family like cousins were as well type 2, but they all kept it very quiet. maybe they were ashamed I suppose. maybe I would have come near believing I was a type 2 diabetic when the saw bones told me if I knew some other kin was as well. I do know now and understand that type 2 diabetes can be prevented by not getting over weight and exercising daily. you who are type 1 aren't in control like we two's are and still most of us continue to ignore the disease and do nothing to change our life style. I've even thought of joining over eaters just to get a handle on it better, but it has to first start with my own attitude and no one else can change it but me. I use to make fun of folks who had addictions to alcohol and drugs and the such. Well everything that goes around, comes back around and I find my self with a eating addiction. we don't have to drink or smoke to live, but we dain sure got to eat to live. I have a good buddy who stopped drinking alcohol over 25 years ago and he says not one day goes by that he doesn't think of how good a beer or glass of wine would taste. the same goes with a lady I know who stopped smoking for more then ten years and one day she just started smoking again. she said every day during the years she wasn't smoking she always craved one. I notice the same thing with my self after I have ate well for a few months and my A1C is where it needs to be. then I just fall off the wagon and I remain off for a long time before I finally get back on. then I will do it all over again. Some of you guys on this list amaze me how easy you seem to get along with your diabetes. you got piles of will power or you are simply stronger then the disease and can stick better then most I know. it is a daily struggle for some of us no matter what the addiction is. I know first hand how eating wrong will make me feel and still I will continue to eat what I shouldn't. I have ask my self why! why! why! and yet I can't seem to find the will power or the strength to stay the path of good A1C and always be in control. I simply like many like me allow food to control me instead of I controlling it. I'm beginning to think there is a deeper rooted problem with me that caused the over eating that I'm not aware of at this time. maybe if I was to figure this cause out, then dealing with controlling my diabetes would be much easier. Question for type 2's > I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a > type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with > symptoms, > but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. > > That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. > > Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? > How > long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? > > I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a > review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people > who > could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help > them. > > Thanks for your assistance. > > Dave > > > " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome > the > world. " [ 16:33] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 How often do you check your blood sugars? _____ From: blind-diabetics [mailto:blind-diabetics ] On Behalf Of Becky McCullough Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 4:50 AM To: blind-diabetics Subject: Re: Question for type 2's I know I'm type 2 now. The last time my sugar was 142. Becky Question for type 2's > > >> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a >> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >> symptoms, >> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >> >> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >> >> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >> How >> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >> >> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >> who >> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >> them. >> >> Thanks for your assistance. >> >> Dave >> >> >> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >> the >> world. " [ 16:33] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Oh good, thought I was the only one, it's awful, I feel like I don't know how to feel, or I'm not sure if anything hurts, i just don't feel myself when this happens. yuk thanks sugar 'Real tears are not those that fall from your eyes and cover your face, but that fall from your heart and cover your soul.' ~Be Blessed, Sugar Question for type 2's > > >> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a >> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >> symptoms, >> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >> >> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >> >> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >> How >> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >> >> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >> who >> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >> them. >> >> Thanks for your assistance. >> >> Dave >> >> >> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >> the >> world. " [ 16:33] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 I still have trouble. Becky Question for type 2's >> >> >>> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is >>> a >>> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >>> symptoms, >>> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >>> >>> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >>> >>> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >>> How >>> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >>> >>> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >>> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >>> who >>> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >>> them. >>> >>> Thanks for your assistance. >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> >>> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >>> the >>> world. " [ 16:33] >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------ >>> >>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 I get the doctor to do it. I have trouble drawing blood. Becky Question for type 2's >> >> >>> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is >>> a >>> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >>> symptoms, >>> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >>> >>> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >>> >>> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >>> How >>> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >>> >>> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >>> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >>> who >>> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >>> them. >>> >>> Thanks for your assistance. >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> >>> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >>> the >>> world. " [ 16:33] >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------ >>> >>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 I'm type 1, and there are many similarities, but when my bg is high, my body has this kind of tight feeling, perhaps better described as if I were on the verge of getting ill. Actually, it's very hard to describe! Dave " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. " [ 16:33] Question for type 2's > > >> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a >> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >> symptoms, >> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >> >> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >> >> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >> How >> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >> >> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >> who >> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >> them. >> >> Thanks for your assistance. >> >> Dave >> >> >> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >> the >> world. " [ 16:33] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Lavanda, I know these are symptoms of type 1, but wasn't sure about type 2. Thanks. Dave " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. " [ 16:33] Question for type 2's I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with symptoms, but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? How long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people who could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help them. Thanks for your assistance. Dave " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. " [ 16:33] ------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 well if there is a meeting near the house I will probably join. when you don't drive and money is a issue cab cost can get to be a hurt. thanks. Question for type 2's > I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a > type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with > symptoms, > but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. > > That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. > > Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? > How > long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? > > I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a > review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people > who > could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help > them. > > Thanks for your assistance. > > Dave > > > " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome > the > world. " [ 16:33] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Hi Dave, I'm not a Type 2, but I think the main difference between symptoms of Type 1 and Type 2 is that symptoms of Type 2 come on much more gradually and are more subtle. For example, excess thirst is a symptom of both types, but from what I remember of the time just before I was diagnosed (I was only 9 so it's vague) I would call what I experienced unquenchable thirst, not just excess thirst. I was literally thirsty non-stop, all the time, even after I'd just had a drink of water. I couldn't concentrate on schoolwork or playing with friends because I was always thinking about how I could get something to drink, even after I'd just had one. These days if my blood sugar is really high for a few hours (like say above 350-400) I get really thirsty, but even that is nothing like what I experienced before diagnosis. I think someone with Type 2 would be thirsty but not to the same extreme as someone with Type 1. Otherwise, the symptoms are pretty much the same since in both cases they are caused by high blood sugar. I think the only symptoms Type 2s don't usually get are those caused by ketoacidosis, like nausea, weight loss, going into a coma and so on. Also, while symptoms of Type 1 come on over a few weeks or months, Type 2 can be years before someone goes to the doctor to get checked out. That's why it's often picked up from routine bloodwork. A Type 1 is more likely to end up getting diagnosed in the emergency department and need to stay in the hospital. Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Mark, Thanks for sharing all of this with us. I find I am in the same boat as you. Food rules my life and I end up not feeling well due to it. My last A1C was pretty darn good but what a struggle it always is and most times I don't win the fight. Ignorance is not bliss with diabetes but it is really hard to come to terms with that. Vivian and Barbee - That's Barbee with 2 E's blazie.girl@... Re: Question for type 2's I did notice in 2001 and 2002 that after I ate a meal I got sort of the feeling of being on drugs or medicine that made me sleepy. I've always been over weight, maybe I did put on extra, but can't say for sure. many times during a 2 year period I would get confused all of a sudden like for no reason and have a hard time thinking straight. some times I would even feel real tired and it felt like it came over me a few hours after eating. the saw bones was taking blood all this time, but he never said anything about me being a type 2 diabetic until around the fall of 02. of course like many type two's I ignored what the blood test said and I continued eating what ever I wished and of course my sugar went higher and out of control. I'm all most certain the ways I would feel those couple of years was because of my sugar. my doc wasn't a diabetes doctor and no one in my family that I knew of was a diabetic. so I never took it serious until my A1C was out of control and I felt like crap. even to day if I eat to many carbs at a meal I will have those same feelings just like I had in the beginning back in 01 and 02. I later found out some in the family like cousins were as well type 2, but they all kept it very quiet. maybe they were ashamed I suppose. maybe I would have come near believing I was a type 2 diabetic when the saw bones told me if I knew some other kin was as well. I do know now and understand that type 2 diabetes can be prevented by not getting over weight and exercising daily. you who are type 1 aren't in control like we two's are and still most of us continue to ignore the disease and do nothing to change our life style. I've even thought of joining over eaters just to get a handle on it better, but it has to first start with my own attitude and no one else can change it but me. I use to make fun of folks who had addictions to alcohol and drugs and the such. Well everything that goes around, comes back around and I find my self with a eating addiction. we don't have to drink or smoke to live, but we dain sure got to eat to live. I have a good buddy who stopped drinking alcohol over 25 years ago and he says not one day goes by that he doesn't think of how good a beer or glass of wine would taste. the same goes with a lady I know who stopped smoking for more then ten years and one day she just started smoking again. she said every day during the years she wasn't smoking she always craved one. I notice the same thing with my self after I have ate well for a few months and my A1C is where it needs to be. then I just fall off the wagon and I remain off for a long time before I finally get back on. then I will do it all over again. Some of you guys on this list amaze me how easy you seem to get along with your diabetes. you got piles of will power or you are simply stronger then the disease and can stick better then most I know. it is a daily struggle for some of us no matter what the addiction is. I know first hand how eating wrong will make me feel and still I will continue to eat what I shouldn't. I have ask my self why! why! why! and yet I can't seem to find the will power or the strength to stay the path of good A1C and always be in control. I simply like many like me allow food to control me instead of I controlling it. I'm beginning to think there is a deeper rooted problem with me that caused the over eating that I'm not aware of at this time. maybe if I was to figure this cause out, then dealing with controlling my diabetes would be much easier. Question for type 2's > I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a > type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with > symptoms, > but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. > > That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. > > Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? > How > long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? > > I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a > review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people > who > could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help > them. > > Thanks for your assistance. > > Dave > > > " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome > the > world. " [ 16:33] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 I wonder if this can be joined on the computer only Betty Emmons Question for type 2's > I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a > type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with > symptoms, > but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. > > That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. > > Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? > How > long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? > > I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a > review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people > who > could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help > them. > > Thanks for your assistance. > > Dave > > > " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome > the > world. " [ 16:33] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Dave, I experienced extreme thirst, very frequent urination, fatigue, disorientation, dizziness, and lost about 30 pounds. Everyone was telling me that I was losing weight, but I couldn't really tell. The weight loss went on for about six months before the other signs came along. I had a blood test about a months before and it came back as normal, a little on the high side, as I know now, but at the time the doctor said that everything was fine. I also have trouble with over eating. There are two types of people, those who eat to live, and the ones who live to eat! Smile! For the type that eat to live, this is not a problem, but for those of us who live to eat, it can be a big problem! Question for type 2's > I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a > type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with > symptoms, > but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. > > That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. > > Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? > How > long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? > > I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a > review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people > who > could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help > them. > > Thanks for your assistance. > > Dave > > > " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome > the > world. " [ 16:33] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 The only symptoms that I noticed before my diagnosis were being thirsty all the time and just drinking down pop out of the bottle and then feeling thirsty again soon after. Also I didn't have to urinate that often but when I did it wanted to just come out. I guess that is incontinence or something. I found out from getting a blood test that my BG was 428. It was shocking to us all but that is how I got started. I have not done really well but the first thing I did was to cut the large bottle of regular pop I was drinking every day to day and a half. I had some regular root beer on Christmas and a little Kool Aid but mostly I have been drinking Crystal Light and a little diet pop. I sometimes have a cup of milk or chocolate milk. But I do not go glugging it out of the bottle as I once did. Lora Question for type 2's > > >> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is a >> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >> symptoms, >> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >> >> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >> >> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >> How >> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >> >> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >> who >> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >> them. >> >> Thanks for your assistance. >> >> Dave >> >> >> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >> the >> world. " [ 16:33] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Regular milk is almost as bad as soda. And believe it or not, I believe chocolate milk is a little better than white milk. It sounds like you're making some adjustments though. It takes time. But the key is to be moving in the right direction, even if slowly. Dave " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. " [ 16:33] Question for type 2's >> >> >>> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is >>> a >>> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >>> symptoms, >>> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >>> >>> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >>> >>> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose weight? >>> How >>> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >>> >>> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >>> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know people >>> who >>> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >>> them. >>> >>> Thanks for your assistance. >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> >>> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome >>> the >>> world. " [ 16:33] >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------ >>> >>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 That's good to know, because I do drink chocolate milk. I think it is low fatt. Becky Question for type 2's >>> >>> >>>> I'm working on a novel where both main characters have diabetes. One is >>>> a >>>> type 1, the other a type 2. As a type 1, I'm pretty familiar with >>>> symptoms, >>>> but I could use a little help with type 2 symptoms prior to diagnosis. >>>> >>>> That is, if there are any noticeable symptoms. >>>> >>>> Do you remember feeling tired, ill, did you gain weight, or lose >>>> weight? >>>> How >>>> long did these or other symptoms persist before you acted on them? >>>> >>>> I hope this message isn't seen as moderator abuse of privilege. Maybe a >>>> review of some of this will prove to be helpful as all of us know >>>> people >>>> who >>>> could well be pre-diabetic. Armed with additional knowledge we can help >>>> them. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your assistance. >>>> >>>> Dave >>>> >>>> >>>> " ...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have >>>> overcome >>>> the >>>> world. " [ 16:33] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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