Diabetes symptoms??

[vjcoleky]

I am wondering....for several years I've have had all these crazy symptoms that have come and gone. The past couple of weeks has been the worst though. I frequently get dizzy spells (and I've actually passed out a couple times within the last few years), and I feel drained of energy all the time. I seem to get disoriented alot too, along with some fuzzy vision. And lately, I have had the "fruity breath" that goes along with diabetes. But I can't say that I really urinate a whole lot or remain thirsty all the time...well, no more than usual. The thing is, I am 26 and was tested with the glucose intolerance test about 10-12 years ago and it came back fine. That was when all the symptoms started...I was around 14-16 years old then. And since then, my sugar levels have seemed fine when I've checked my blood with my Dad's glucometer. But when I went to then Doctor recently, then said my glucose reading was a 220. So does this mean I have pre-diabetes or even already diabetes? They are going to run some more tests at the doctor, so I am just wondering. I just can't figure out that if I haven't gotten really sick, then I find it hard to understand how I could have diabetes. And how can my body go from being just fine, to producing little insulin (if it even is diabetes). Maybe I'm in denial...but I just don't understand. Could it be something else?

[SassySue]

Dear Newly diagnosed diabetic, I too for years had symptoms, excessive thirst, excessive urination, multiple yeast infections,blurred vision, glucose tolerance test were all negative, blood sugar tests were within normal limits. I thought I was very lucky not to be a diabetic, but what was causing all these symptoms? Well, I got into an motor vehical accident and had been on pretty much bed rest except for what I could try to do (I had fractured my lumbar spine at L2 with fusion from L1 to L3 with hardware)and then I just kept going to the restroom every ten minutes and a cut on my foot had not healed after a month. I went to the drug store and got the urine strips that tell if there is sugar in your urine (oh yes I forgot I had a yeast infection too and had taken medicine for it but it still hadn't gone away)well the strip showed greater than a thousand even though I am also a RN I didn't know what that meant to a blood level. I went to the ER saw my son-in-law who is an er doctor. He has one of the nurses check my glucose level with a glucometer. My blood was greater than 500. He wrote me an Rx and I started medications that night and followed up with my own MD the next day. So see I had symptoms for years but never caught it until I became very setentary. Don't give up, keep a notebook of your symptoms,write down date and time, what you had eaten or drunk, take them to your doctor keep bothering him to find out what is causing you these problems.Hope you find out what is going on.

[JDRF-Team-LRS]

Hello,
As you may know we're all volunteers here and not medical professionals.  It seems to me that if you're getting high blood sugar readings, then you need to discuss those results with a doctor who will take the readings seriously.

Diabetes can occur at any age -- and, as you say, a person can move fairly quickly from "feeling fine" to "not."  I'm a little surprised that your doc didn't comment on a BG of 220, but there are many factors that can affect a given reading -- including other meds, timing of a recent meal, etc.  Often the tests for diabetes are done using a fasting BG or a glucose tolerance test.

Visit this website for more information:
http://www.diabetes.org/pre-diabetes/pre-diabetes-symptoms.jsp

and I do encourage you to eitehr follow up with your doctor, or to ask for a referral to an endocrinologist -- who specializes in the diagnosis & treatment of conditions like diabetes.