Almost daily, I am dizzy and have blurred vision. It is during the morning hours that it is the worst. I don’t have the other symptoms (thirst and frequent urination) of diabetes, however. Recently, my blood pressure has been higher (160/110), during the morning hours, than usual. Though, it isn’t high every morning I feel dizzy and have blurred vision.
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Diabetes and high blood pressure are definitely connected. Exercise and the elimination of high carbohydrate foods from the diet would be the first important step to take.
The combination of diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, has been called The Metabolic Syndrome.
All about high blood pressure at the Life Extension Foundation website. Use the pull-down menu "Select Health Concerns" to look up diabetes and other conditions:
Free online nutrition plan that will help both conditions at Dr. Mercola’s site:
http://www.mercola.com/nutritionplan/index.htm
You might consider finding a doctor that will focus on lifestyle factors rather than drugs since diabetes 2 and high blood pressure are very much connected to obesity, diet and exercise.
I seem to have been rated down 4 times in an question that I answered yesterday in relation to diabetes where the blood glucose level was in the high 200′s. Maybe the levels are different for different countries. Is this the case? In Australia a normal blood suger is 4.5, not in the high 80′ to 90′s. Am I right or are other people making me out to be making up my information? The next answer to mine seems to on the same track as me.
Forget the ratings. They’re meaningless. Just point people to the BGL converter here: http://www.brist.plus.com/convert.htm
In the U.S. we use milligrams per deciliter. In the U.K. and Canada, they use millimoles per liter. They differ only by a factor of 18. Elsewhere, I have no idea.
U.S. norm fasting: 70 to 110 mg/dl
U.K. norm fasting: 3.9 to 6.1 mmol/l
My son is a diabetic, when his blood sugar levels are normal and not running high he urinates just as much as a non-diabetic, when his blood sugars are running high he can urinate as often as every 5, 10 or 15 minutes. High blood sugars cause diabetics to drink more hence the fact they need the toilet more. Hope this helps!
For three years i’ve been experiencing the following:
-weakness in my whole body
-exhaustion
-unexplanable rashes
-thirst for water increasing
-blurred vision
diabetes does run in my family. the most recent to have it was my grandpa on my moms side. i want to ask my mother to take me to the doctor because i had the worst experience last night where i couldnt walk and my legs were really tingly. on top of that, my head was feeling light and dizzy.
also, im 14 years of age, 5’4 and weigh 102 lbs.
also, im very athletic.
Yes. I just got diagnosed with borderline diabetes. I have all of those symptoms except I do not have high blood pressure. My glucose levels would go from one extreme to the next, but they have been staying pretty high. I also have been getting really tired during or after I eat and they said that’s pretty normal. Have them do a some blood test.
For three years i’ve been experiencing the following:
-weakness in my whole body
-exhaustion
-unexplanable rashes
-thirst for water increasing
-blurred vision
diabetes does run in my family. the most recent to have it was my grandpa on my moms side. i want to ask my mother to take me to the doctor because i had the worst experience last night where i couldnt walk and my legs were really tingly. on top of that, my head was feeling light and dizzy.
also, im 14 years of age, 5’4 and weigh 102 lbs.
also, im very athletic.
Yes. I just got diagnosed with borderline diabetes. I have all of those symptoms except I do not have high blood pressure. My glucose levels would go from one extreme to the next, but they have been staying pretty high. I also have been getting really tired during or after I eat and they said that’s pretty normal. Have them do a some blood test.
I have been craving sugar throughout my whole pregnancy and I’ve been eating a lot of candy lately, been trying to stop. I’m 26 weeks and I have my prenatal appt on wednesday to do the one hour test. I am far from overweight (5’4 127 lbs), obesity does not run in my family, and i dont have PCOS. (I heard all of these things increases the risk). However I have been urinating A LOT which i heard is a sign. Are my chances high?
Here’s how it works: eating sugar can’t case you to get gestational diabetes. It’s a genetic predisposition and there’s no way to tell completely that you will get it or not – you can guess by risk factors, but it’s not a guarantee.
However, if you have that genetic disposition, eating too much sugar will DEFINITELY affect whether you get high blood sugars during pregnancy. In other words, you could be predisposed for GD but if you ate like a gestational diabetic throughout your whole pregnancy you could avoid high blood sugars and would only show high on the actual test. The test would force it to show up because it’s a big dose of sugar/glucose all at once that measure how you react to sugar.
If you don’t have the predisposition for it and eat sugar all the time it will be bad for your teeth and weight gain, but your blood sugar will never go high. Your body manufactures enough insulin to cover as much sugar as you eat.
You don’t have to be overweight. A common indicator is if someone in your family tree is a type 2 diabetic, and certain ethnicities are more prone that others like Native Americans. Good luck!
I have been craving sugar throughout my whole pregnancy and I’ve been eating a lot of candy lately, been trying to stop. I’m 26 weeks and I have my prenatal appt on wednesday to do the one hour test. I am far from overweight (5’4 127 lbs), obesity does not run in my family, and i dont have PCOS. (I heard all of these things increases the risk). However I have been urinating A LOT which i heard is a sign. Are my chances high?
Here’s how it works: eating sugar can’t case you to get gestational diabetes. It’s a genetic predisposition and there’s no way to tell completely that you will get it or not – you can guess by risk factors, but it’s not a guarantee.
However, if you have that genetic disposition, eating too much sugar will DEFINITELY affect whether you get high blood sugars during pregnancy. In other words, you could be predisposed for GD but if you ate like a gestational diabetic throughout your whole pregnancy you could avoid high blood sugars and would only show high on the actual test. The test would force it to show up because it’s a big dose of sugar/glucose all at once that measure how you react to sugar.
If you don’t have the predisposition for it and eat sugar all the time it will be bad for your teeth and weight gain, but your blood sugar will never go high. Your body manufactures enough insulin to cover as much sugar as you eat.
You don’t have to be overweight. A common indicator is if someone in your family tree is a type 2 diabetic, and certain ethnicities are more prone that others like Native Americans. Good luck!
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Symptoms of diabetes insipidus include an increase in urination and in increase in thirst, as well as bed-wetting, irritability, listlessness, vomiting and diarrhea. Discover why dry hands and dehydration may be signs of diabetes insipidus with help from a licensed RN in this free video on diabetes insipidus.