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Well this is strange:
I think i've had diabetes years before i was diagnosed for type 1 diabetic but in all this time i wasn't loosing any weight - I had same weight for years.
Now, after 5 months on insulin i've lost several kilograms and right now i'm on the edge of normal, healthy weight...my sugar levels are ok, i fell great and it seems everything is right except hypoglicemias which happen quite often.
Now..can this be the main problem...are hypoglicemias causing weight loss? I really don't know what else could it be..maybe different eating habbits, different food than before?
Mikka 25/M
In Reply to: Diabetes type 1 question.. i'm loosing weight posted by Mikka L. on February 06, 2000 at 10:46:00:
Hi, Mikka.
How old are you and at what age did the diabetic diagnosis arrive? How much insulin and how often of what kind do you need?
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Diabetes type 1 question.. i'm loosing weight posted by Walt Stoll on February 07, 2000 at 11:40:59:
I'm 25, diagnosed 5 months ago and i need 18 units of Humalog in the morning, 6-10 for lunch and 8-10 for dinner + 6 units of NPH for night.I've had candidiasis (auto immune polyglandular syndrome?) but i think it's gone now.
I fell great,my sugar is in good range, i eat enough..the only bad thing in this 5 months were mild/moderate hypoglicemias (at least one in two days) and weight loss.
In Reply to: Re: Diabetes type 1 question.. i'm loosing weight posted by Mikka L. on February 07, 2000 at 19:11:39:
Mikka,
You are going to have to make it a point to become an expert in this condition! You should have been told that every time you have a hypoglycemic event, your diabetes actually is made worse. It is not too bad to run your sugar a little high since that is safe. Low blood sugar can not only kill you right on the spot but makes your condition worse at the same time.
Once you can tell me that you have not had a hyupoglycemic event in a few months, it will be time to try to have your system do its best to produce a homeodynamic that has you functioning optimally.
Since it is known that many type 1 diabetics are caused by poorly digested caseine (cows' milk protein) leaking through a LGS, the first thing you could do is TOTALLY eliminate any dairy for a few months. You will have to read every lable and be compulsive about this in order to find out if you are one with this cause. This cannot harm you in any way and there is still no reliable way to determine this without your using your own bodymind laboratory.
Use the glossary for any unnfamiliar terms.
Once you have done your homework, if you still have questions, write again.
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Diabetes type 1 question.. i'm loosing weight (Where to start?) posted by Walt Stoll on February 08, 2000 at 17:10:04:
Walt said: "every time you have a hypoglycemic event, your diabetes actually is made worse. It is not too bad to run your sugar a little high since that is safe. Low blood sugar can not only kill you right on the spot but makes your condition worse at the same time."
Is this true for Type II diabetes also? Or just for type I?
Also, could you give us a simple explanation Why a low blood sugar event makes the diabetes altogether worse?
My wife (with Type II diabetes for 12 years - Insulin-dependent) has them all the time (2-3 times a week) at night, and reading this really worries me, especially since I don't know WHY this should be so. I've tried to get her to try to eat something at bed time, thinking that might help avoid the low blood sugar events later on that "force" her to eat MUCH more in the middle of the night than she would possibly have eaten at bedtime hopefully to avoid the event. Or am I missing the boat completely?
Thanks!
The White Rabbit
In Reply to: Re: Is this true for Type II also? posted by Harvey on February 08, 2000 at 17:20:36:
Hi, Harvey.
Both!
The theory is that, since this is an endocrine condition, that any stress added to the endocrine system causes the condition to worsen permanently. The adrenalin flush (which causes most of the symptoms of insulin shock) is an endocrine stress and a BIG one.
Her doc should have reduced her night time dose of insulin long ago. If she has not told him about this, she should have. If she did, and he did not tell you exactly what I am saying here, she needs a much better doc!
If she is not taking a night-time dose of insulin, she has to be on a long acting form and is taking too much in the morning. Since the hypoglycemic attack makes the diabetes worse in the long run, you will not know how she is for about 6-12 months after stopping the attacks. In the meantime, it also makes her diabetes worse in the short term.
Poor physicians do not take that into account when they treat people and so, when they see that the sugar is up (not caring that the person had had a hypoglycemic session the night before), they increase the dose when the proper response would have been to DECREASE the dose.
This is taught to every freshman medical student!!!!!
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Diabetes type 1 question.. i'm loosing weight posted by Mikka L. on February 07, 2000 at 19:11:39:
Hi Mikka,
Having had Type 1 diabetes for 26 years, your post frightens me. Your blood sugars are NOT in good range if you are having so many insulin reactions. If you weigh around 250 kilograms, each unit of Humalog would burn about 50 mg/dl of blood sugar. Of course, the more a diabetic weighs, the more that he/she is insulin resistant. That's 900 mg/dl's your morning Humalog should lower your blood sugar, peaking in one hour. Something is seriously wrong! There is hope Mikka. Dr. Stoll was right when he said that you had to be the expert. To help you obtain that knowledge, I would recommend a book by Richard K. Bernstein, M.D. called "Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution" www.diabetes-normalsugars.com. Read everything that he has on his website, then buy the book! I have read MANY books on the subject. This is the only one that I recommend you to read. It will take you a while to become your expert on diabetes. In the meantime Mikka, if you can possibly get around it, DON'T drive a car, always wear a Medic-Alert ID bracelet. Take it from another "expert". This is YOUR LIFE!
Wally
In Reply to: Re: Diabetes type 1 question.. i'm loosing weight posted by Wally on February 10, 2000 at 03:33:42:
Thanks, Wally!
Many people need to hear it from someone who has been there before they can take it to heart!
The sad thing is that she should not have had to come to the internet to get this. She has been paying her doc to do this but he has not. Only a monopoly could survive with this level of service.
Namaste`
Walt
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