Re: To Jim again to Deanna

[Guest guest]

Deanna,

I have not been diagnosed as being diabetic but I'm getting a hunch

that I may indeed have developed the disease. I've been getting a

couple of classic symptoms over the past few months. Each of the

symptoms taken separately can be explained away, but taken together,

they raise a serious question.

Also, on my father's side of my family I can trace diabetes back to

my great-grandfather who brought the disease with him as a little

bundle of joy when he immegrated from Germany in the early 1880's.

It has popped up in every generation since; most recently in one of

my cousins who was diagnosed with diabetes last summer. To make

things a little more interesting, my maternal grandmother also had

the disease. The laws of genetics being what they are, the deck is

stacked in the wrong direction.

I have doctor's appointments next week where I intend to ask for a

glucose test. In spite of my pancreatitis, I don't think a diabetes

check has been made recently. If that test comes back positive, it

might explain a number of things including the sore gums and teeth

and, depending on the type of diabetes, perhaps even the

pancreatitis itself.

Jim

> Hi again! If you are diabetic, Heidi Griffith is an excellent

source

> of info. I bet she could help you with what might be going on

with

> your teeth.

>

> Hugs,

> Deanna Tubb

> New Mexico PAI Rep