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Muscle Spasms common? uncommon? how to deal
Feb 26, 2010 in the Diabetes - Adult Type II Community
Most of the time muscle spasms happen because of electrolyte disturbances. Are you a diabetic? If so, then metformin can also cause muscle spasms. Let me know.
Blood sugar level 6.9
Feb 26, 2010 in the Diabetes - Adult Type II Community
If it is 6.9 mmol/l then it is not diabetes and you need not worry. If its is Hb1Ac 6.9 then its definitely diabetes mellitus. For bloated feeling, you need to regularise your diet, have lot of green leafy vegetables and exercise regularly. You will be fine.
Callused fingers from blood testing.
Feb 26, 2010 in the Diabetes - Adult Type II Community
Use lancets for pricking fingers for blood test. And you can certainly use your right hand fingers for blood testing. Its not a big inconvenience and won't affect your work!!
my sight has been extremly blurry all day and my hands are in bad condition
Feb 26, 2010 in the Diabetes - Adult Type II Community
I believe you need to be worried if this is happening on a regular basis. It can because of fatigue due to lack of sleep in the previous night. in diseased states, there can be a variety of reasons that can cause what happened. It can be because of rhematoid arthritis, diabetic arthropathy etc.
blood suger levels
Feb 26, 2010 in the Diabetes - Adult Type II Community
Which insulin are you taking? Ideally, in your case you need to start with a basal insulin at night followed by rapid acting insulin 1/2 hour before each large meal. Also, you need to be takin metformin 100 mg twice daily.
Random Blood Gluse
Feb 26, 2010 in the Diabetes - Adult Type II Community
120 mg/dl is a normal random blood sugar level. Generally, below 140 mg/ dl is considered to be normal for random blood sugar.
High sugar levels ALL THE TIME
Feb 26, 2010 in the Diabetes - Adult Type II Community
When you are giving the history of pancreatic attack, I am assuming that he suffered from an attack of pancreatitis. Pancreatitis is often a trigger for development of diabetes mellitus. Right now, the fact is that you husban is a patient of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus. Please get his HbA1C done from a pathology lab and let me know. I also need his cu...
whelps
Jun 21, 2009 in the Allergy Community
This is a typical hypersensitive reaction. Take tablet cetrizine 1 tablet twice daily for about a week.
allegra d... claritin d
Jun 21, 2009 in the Allergy Community
You can go ahead and take allegra. But don't use it daily as a routine. Use it whenever you feel you are getting symptoms of allergy.
Wheat pollen allergy
Jun 21, 2009 in the Allergy Community
Wheat pollen allergy has nothing to do with gluten allergy. They might co-exist.