My body predisposed to diabetes but dont use that

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          • My body predisposed to diabetes but dont use that - as excuse to not deal with problem. nm
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Okay, I've been feeling really weird the past couple of days (yes, that's an official medical term; it's right up there with icky, which I will be using later).  The first time, it felt like my blood sugar was too low, but that didn't make sense since I had just eaten a sausage 'n' mushroom omelet.  Went to lay down, and kept waking up feeling like I was going to pass out.  Make any sense?  Had that horrible feeling off and on all day yesterday, then again today.  Finally got smart enought to get the old glucometer out and it read 112.  Had a bologna, cheese and ketchup sandwich a little later, then tried having nothing for 2 hours.  About 1 3/4 hours later, I started feeling really icky again.  I tested and it was 106.  Had some orange juice and I felt a little better.  Had supper and felt a lot better.  Two hours with nothing but water, and the retest put me at 80.

I've spent half the night on Google, then again, I got smart enough to throw the question out here... WHAT'S GOING ON?   Maybe it's not even my sugar... maybe I just had some bad eggs.  Or maybe it's high blood pressure and I'm just looking at the wrong thing.

Shaky, nauseas, spacy, tired, like I'm going to pass out, headache, and my face 'throbs' (I'm sure there's more), but the numbers don't make sense.

I know, go to the doctor, right?  I'll be calling to schedule a complete physical sometime this next week.  In the meantime, just wondered what y'all thought?

I went to mom's house yesterday.  She had some overnight guests staying with her who were diabetic and had a meter.  They took mom's BS earlier yesterday morning and it was nearly 300 she said.  She could not tell me an exact number.  This morning it was down to 158.  She said that it has fluctated from 200 to nearly 300 to 150s.  This is concerning for me.  I asked her if she was feeling anything.  She says that she has early morning headaches and a feeling like she was going to pass out.   She said she was symptom free right now though.  She said she had been drinking whole milk, eating lots of sweets and that is why it is so high.  She said that as if it could happen to anyone but I don't think that is normal, it doesn't happen to me.  She says when you get older, your body changes.   I asked her if she has said anything to her doctor.  She said that they do random blood tests for her medicine and it has always been borderline but they have never said or done anything or even mentioned it.   

Am I jumping the gun on being concerned?  Mom is in the low-income range and I am wondering if this is why the docs aren't doing anything.   Mom is overweight and is 58 years old. 

No insurance.  Went to the doc yesterday to go over lab work I had done in November.  My blood glucose was 127 (upper limit of normal being 126).  I am 45 yeard old and overweight, but I never had this happen before.  He then did a glucometer reading (after I had had three cups of coffee, each with two sugars, of which I was still sipping on as he took the reading).  He then ordered new lab work as a recheck, but stated he had to put NIDDM as a diagnosis on the requisition form.  I don't feel a diagnosis can be made that simply.  What's really upsetting is the fact that he informed me that now since I had been diagnosed with NIDDM that I would probably never be able to get health insurance with a pre-existing condition such as this.  I feel that through correct diet and exercise over the next few months I can easily lose ten or more pounds, and that this more than likely will change the status of my next lab values.  I feel so very sad about this.  What do I do??

I've been transcribing for 5 years, and my body hurts all the time, seems like.

How do some of you girls do this for 10, 20, 30 years and still function?  I have back aches, shoulder aches, neck pain, headaches, forearm aches.  I've tried different chairs, keyboards, body posiiton, and it's the same. 

Currently, I'm going to school, and I just can't wait.

I have my office at the end of the hall, and it's like Hell is at the end of the hall.  Sometimes, I just hate this room.  I don't even come in here on my days off, even if I have to use the PC.  I look around this room, and just think, "How can I dislike a room so much?"

HOW do you girls do it for so long? 

I am only 29 but my body feels like it is 99!!  At the end of the day, my shoulders ache and my arms feel like they weigh 100 pounds each.  I have everything ergonomic from keyboard to adjustable arm rests to foot rest.  I even do exercises throughout the day but nothing seems to help.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

and the product he ordered for me and my daughter was something like Exelon shampoo (prescription but I may be misspelling it) - it's the same ingredient as what is in Selsun Blue which can be bought over the counter.

Hope she feels better too........we when through this when my daughter was a teen..........

When you're sick you may feel that certain body parts are more trouble than they're worth. And in some cases, you'd be right. While the human body has evolved and adapted significantly since the caveman days, a few biological traces of our prehistoric ancestors still remain with us in the form of freeloading body parts we lug around with us, but have no use for. Take a gander at the top offenders!

10. Plica semilunaris
You may not know it, but you have a third eyelid. Pull open the two more noticeable eyelids and take a look -- it's located right in the corner by the tear duct. This small third eyelid is left over from what's known as a "nictitating membrane," which is still present in full form in some animals including chickens, lizards and sharks.

9. Body hair
No doubt we were once hairier. Up until about 3 million years ago, we were covered with body hair. But by the time Homo erectus arrived, the ability to sweat meant we could shed our woolly ways.

8. Sinuses
Doctors don't really know much about sinuses -- only that we have a lot of them. Possibilities for their function range from insulating our eyes to changing the pitch and tone of our voice.

7. Adenoids
Adenoids trap bacteria, but they're also prone to swelling and infection. Just ask any 7-year-old. Luckily, our adenoids shrink with age and are often removed, along with ...

6. Tonsils
Also prone to swelling and infection. If you still have them when you reach your 30s, it's almost an accomplishment.

5. Coccyx
More useful as a game-winning Scrabble word than as part of the anatomy, the coccyx or tailbone, is made up of several fused vertebrae left over from the olden days when we had tails.

4. Arrector pili
When we were hairier (see No. 9), the arrector pili made the hairs stand on end when we needed to appear bigger and scarier. Now, it just gives us goose bumps.

3. Wisdom teeth
Back in the day, when we ate mammoth meat off the bone and didn't floss afterward, our teeth tended to fall out. Therefore, when those reserve molars, aka "wisdom teeth," came in, they were welcomed. Nowadays, fluoride and dental plans have made them just a huge pain.

2. Appendix
Darwin claimed the appendix was useful for digestion during our early plant-eating years; it's dwindled down to little since we started eating more digestible foods.

1. Male nipples
Because, why?

Is our body actually our own, or does it belong to society? Roe versus Wade, right-to-die cases, such issues show that's a very hard question for us all. We might acknowledge that God created the body, but we don't always acknowledge he also created the mental state. We note that some bodies are created with handicaps and we medically try to correct them, we even invent percieved handicaps and correct them (Botox, anyone?) but we are very confused as to at what point this is "OK" and at what point it is "wrong" (think Michael Jackson). However, we seem accept in general that if one is unhappy with one's body/condition, it can be "fixed" and it doesn't have to stay exactly the same as it was originally created; otherwise we would not try to prolong life with medicine, but would accept the original creation as involately holy and leave it alone. We don't often question, judge or condemn someone's opinion of what their body needs, we accept that is up to them as the inhabitant to make that call. If you say you need Lasix surgery, no biggie. If you say you need an abortion, you might experience some arguments and judgements about that. But if you say you need gender surgery, take cover, here comes armageddon! And oh boy, if you choose to have a baby in the middle of changing your gender, prepare to catch it from the entire planet!

The national media, in their infinite wisdom, picked up on this story for its pure sensationalism.  How very kind and supportive they are, as usual.

It seems unlikely that it would counteract BCP but you might call your pharmacist and ask.

My husband used to use it when he was in the Air Force and getting sent overseas a lot. It helped him overcome the jet lag more quickly. But then, he didn't have to worry about getting pregnant!