does anyone here have diabetes

[Quietstorm]

Type 2 Diabetes usually has no symptoms, but in the long term it can lead to excessive thirst, frequent trips to the toilet to pass urine and weight loss.
This type of diabetes can usually be controlled with diet, exercise or medicines, but if poorly controlled, it increases the risk of heart disease and strokes, nerve damage and blindness.

Did you not ask your Dr all of this stuff?

Before I was diagnosed with it I had those symptoms and lost 40 pounds. It has symptoms. I could have slip into a coma/seizure, my blood sugar was 500. That was five years ago.

 

[the last son]

I have been pissing every 5 minutes at times. SO I get checked out. I have no uti, or sugar in my urine. and kidneys work fine. But then I get a simple blood check and my blood sugar is high. I have to go for a check up/physical next week and and more blood test. I have to piss every 5 minutes for the past 6 months. How concerned should I be?

 

[zeroapoc]

My father does. I should keep a check on myself.

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

I don't, but one of my good friends does.

 

[Paladin-Hoss]

I have been pissing every 5 minutes at times. SO I get checked out. I have no uti, or sugar in my urine. and kidneys work fine. But then I get a simple blood check and my blood sugar is high. I have to go for a check up/physical next week and and more blood test. I have to piss every 5 minutes for the past 6 months. How concerned should I be?

I just got diagnosed with Diabetes type 2 myself about a month ago.

One of the symptoms is frequent bathrom visit Other symptoms are: being thirsty all the time, sudden weight loss, feeling like your mouth is dry all the time,feeeling tired all the time etc etc

And did the doctor tell you how high your blood sugar is? when i was first diagnosed,it was 24,5...wich as pretty bad..with medicine and a little bit of diet, a month later it's around 7, which is 'normal'

 

[the last son]

I don't have any other symptons other than seriously having to use the bathroom every 5 minutes. I don't know about blood sugar other than they took some off my finger and said it was 129 when it should be around 100.

 

[Paladin-Hoss]

is it literally every 5 minutes? is that everytime you drink something, you have to go to the bathroom immidiately after?

Guess nothing to do but wait for your results next week. It's probably nothing, but going to the bathroom that often is a cause for concern for sure.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

I don't have diabetes, surprisingly enough, considering it runs rampant through my family.

 

[jacobed]

I do not. I don't know anyone that does but every year I raise about 500 bucks for the American Diabetes Association and ride 100 mile marathon in the Tour De Cure

 

[Paladin-Hoss]

I do not. I don't know anyone that does but every year I raise about 500 bucks for the American Diabetes Association and ride 100 mile marathon in the Tour De Cure

Wow...that's amazing!

You mind if i ask why Diabetes in particular? I have to admit that i never really thought about Diabetes until a month ago, when the doctors told me that i have DT2...Now, starting this month i'm donating a little bit of money i can spare for the Diabetic fund in my country.

 

[MangleBoP]

Yep, diabetes sucks.

 

[Rorschach2012]

 

[JP]

I've had type 1 for 14 years. Diagnosed when I was 10.. on Halloween.

 

[tzarinna]

A doctor once tried to tell me I had diabetes. I pretty much gave her my *****-please face and kept it moving. That was 10 years ago. It's never been brought up as an issue since.

I know a lot of people with it, and I've worked in health care and seen its toil on people.

 

[jacobed]

Wow...that's amazing!

You mind if i ask why Diabetes in particular? I have to admit that i never really thought about Diabetes until a month ago, when the doctors told me that i have DT2...Now, starting this month i'm donating a little bit of money i can spare for the Diabetic fund in my country.

I love riding my bike and I live in North Dakota so I was looking around on the internet for different bike marathons around here and I stumbled across the Tour De Cure and you have to raise at least $150 to participate in it so I've been doing that for almost 5 years now. I usually raise around $500 which 100% goes to the American Diabetes Association and I always do the 100 mile marathon. I don't know anyone with diabetes besides the people I meet there but its a great bike route and if I have to raise some money towards a great cause, I'm not going to complain. Its a good time every year.

 

[Tigress]

My mom has it and her side of the family. I don't have it, my big problem is I love sweets and have a big sweet tooth. I have to be careful to eat small portions and not a lot. I do go rollerskating, do some running and play some beach volleyball.

 

[jacobed]

The root cause of Type 1 Diabetes was discovered the other day and a cure for it is right around the corner

 

[Darthphere]

You have a link to that?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

It runs in the family, I might get hit by it sooner than many

 

[MrMaooz]

Nope

 

[Anita18]

Yeah I'm not finding anything on the official news sources from the past month. I did find this though, published back in May which is pretty recent: http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/v14/n7/abs/ni.2610.html

The Nature journal is beyond official for science research and I wouldn't trust anything less if the discovery was this big. If a method that could turn into a successful diabetes treatment didn't make it into Nature, it was probably uber-sketchy.

For those of you who aren't scientists and can't comprehend that summary, they found they could suppress a certain population of white blood cells. (White blood cells going haywire and attacking their own body is how autoimmune disorders like Type 1 diabetes come about.)

And um, that's all. Just a proof of concept. The only did a proof of concept test on mice that proved mice bred to have diabetes, if injected with a certain population of white blood cells, have less diabetes. They didn't even test their suppression method directly on the mice, at least from what I can see from the preview figures.

It's not a cure, it would be a treatment. And it's still years off from being useful to humans.

Unless of course, jacobed was referring to something else.

 

[Destructus86]

Diabetes scares the crap out of me...
I hate needles and can't actually inject myself.

 

[Anita18]

News of a "reverse vaccine" for type 1 diabetes, from today.

For more than four decades, scientists have tried different ways of manipulating the immune system to stop the destruction of insulin-producing cells that is responsible for type 1 diabetes. The disease affects as many as 3 million Americans.

Some prior attempts suppressed desirable parts of the immune system, leaving individuals vulnerable to infections and cancer. Several teams are now attempting more targeted approaches in an effort to delay or reverse type 1 diabetes.

In the latest effort, published on Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, teams from Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and Stanford University in California tested a vaccine genetically engineered to shut down only the immune system cells causing harm, while leaving the rest of the immune system intact.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/26/us-diabetes-vaccine-immunotherapy-idUSBRE95P14Y20130626

This looks to be a different mechanism than I outlined above. When I'm at work and have access to journals, I'll give it a closer look.

And you guys with type 2 diabetes are still SOL. Diet and exercise are still the best solutions there....

 

[Paladin-Hoss]

nd you guys with type 2 diabetes are still SOL. Diet and exercise are still the best solutions there....

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Any other words of encouragement for us?

 

[Anita18]

Any other words of encouragement for us?

You can cure it yourself if you make your diet healthier and start exercising. It's totally within your power and doesn't involve going absolutely health-nut. You don't have to run marathons or anything, even some changes is better than nothing. It's absolutely proven. Whereas I'm lifting heavy weights 2x a week and I don't even know if it'll really help prevent osteoporosis 20 years from now, but I'm sure as hell not gonna take it lying down!

You don't have to take it lying down at all. You CAN do something about it that WILL help.

Your long-term health isn't worth drinking 6 sodas a day. Seriously.

And hypothetically, my sister would totally take the diet and exercise option if it was available. The reverse vaccine for type 1 diabetes involves weekly injections, and she's afraid of needles.