Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 2001/03

From: Sterkel Terrance-W15462 <T.Sterkel@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] diabetics advice [kl] thirst
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:12:54 -0500

As a diabetic (type 2), I felt I should attempt to clarify.

1. Thirst is a symptom. You need to check it out
2. The blood tester your buddy has is fine, but it is NOT
definitive. There are issues of time of day, etc.
3. If you have a reading over 120, (130 in EU?, different scale),
you should immediately get a H1AbC test and a glucose test. NOW.
4. If you have a reading below 120, but still have the symptoms,
go to your doctor, NOW.

this is serious stuff, and besides, you probably are badly overdue
for a checkup!

best wishes!
terry

{*}
Terry Sterkel

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Heinemann [mailto:sjh@-----.edu]
Subject: [kl] thirst

Bill wrote:

> Most diabetics don't discover that they're diabetic
> until they're in the emergency room, so don't wait to check it out.
>
> That's excellent advice. I don't know about the "very" part, or
> even the "likely" part, but it _does_ happen more than "almost never".
> I woke up in the emergency room this way when I was 16.
>
And Audrey wrote:

> Diabetes is a serious condition and should NOT be diagnosed by anyone
> except a doctor. The doctor will check on other symptoms, too. High
> blood
> sugars do NOT necessarily mean you are diabetic.
>
Quite right on both counts. Juvenile diabetes is not common, so "very
likely" is an overstatement, and a medical doctor is a much better source
than a musical doctor. But if a person thinks they might be diabetic (and
displays symptoms such as constant thirst and going to the bathroom forty
times a day), a blood glucose test of 300 when a "normal" reading is about
70 should, at the least, be an indication that a voluntary trip to the
medical doctor is in order and might avoid the involuntary trip.

Steve Heinemann
Bradley University

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