Answers: Diabetes

I am obese, but have never had diabetes or pre-diabetic conditions. I had a baby in 2008, but did not even have gestational diabetes. However I remember something I read which mentioned (just a vague memory here…) that it’s possible to have some gestational diabetes which is not detected by the standard glucose-measuring [...]

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Hello people.
I see diabetes listed as a risk factor for heart diseases and I wonder how bad it really is to have diabetes. Is it as bad as smoking? I suppose it depends on how well diabetes is controlled but I just want to get an idea of what damage high blood sugar does to [...]

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By this I mean, prediabetes, diabetes type 2, or only if the patient refuses to accept treatment?
Also, my doc said I have slightly high blood sugar. I am only 20 years old and of average weight. Will my blood sugar always be above normal for the rest of my life? What can I do to [...]

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i am having some signs of diabetes (frequent urination, tiredness when eating sugars). but i got my blood sugar tested a few months ago and it was okay. is it possible for me to have diabetes without high blood sugar.
also, do you think i need to take meds in my current condition, or are diet [...]

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What I mean is, do you ONLY have the symptoms of diabetes (peeing often, drinking often etc.) if you have high blood sugar?

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Today my wife went for her 28 week screening, she had blood sugar of 175. They want her to do a second longer test. Has anybody here had gestational diabetes? Or high blood sugar that was later proven to not to be gestational diabetes? Please anyone who has knowledge help me to calm my wife! [...]

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If there is no other sign exept high blood sugar levels, can that be type 2 diabetes? Is it necesary to have some clinical symptoms at all in such case?

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If there is no other sign exept high blood sugar levels, can that be type 2 diabetes? Is it necesary to have some clinical symptoms at all in such case?

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so yeah, can someone give me a not so confusing answer for it? What i was thinking was since Insulin stimulates glucose uptake by cells & diabetes is high blood sugar, wouldn't it be oversecretion? i don't understand why it's the other way around. Im not great when it comes to science, but i try [...]

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i'm hypoglycemic and the information i'm finding goes back and forth about how it's the beginning stages of adult onset diabetes. so i would like to know if anyone had hypoglycemia, didn't treat it (still eating sugar and so on), and then got diabetes. can low blood sugar lead to high blood sugar? diabetes is [...]

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