hello, I have just joined as I have been diagnosed as pre-diabetes. It may not sound serious but as a really active and healthy person, it was a surprise to get the call from my practice about this. I really want to ask someone about an exceptionally dry mouth syndrome, exhausting at night and actually quite alarming when I can neither swallow nor unstick my tongue from my palate. Also having become aware that this is probably a proper symptom now I'm not sure how to go about dealing with it, getting another practice appointment will probably be linked to a check up booked for November!! Conversations welcomed, thank you.
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Eddy Edson
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Hi Grandi! Are you peeing and getting thirsty a lot? Anyway, for me those were things I noticed for quite a while before I got myself diagnosed and which seem to have gone along with a very dry mouth (plus a weird metallic taste all the time).
My thing turned out to be very common with T2D - simply the bod trying to get rid of excess glucose => lots of peering => dehydration and thirst => drinking lots of water => more peeing ... etc etc etc.
Getting BG under better control dealt with the prob.
My thing turned out to be very common with T2D - simply the bod trying to get rid of excess glucose => lots of peering => dehydration and thirst => drinking lots of water => more peeing ... etc etc etc.
Getting BG under better control dealt with the prob.
Drummer
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It is a perfectly natural reaction to too high a concentration of glucose in the blood.
I deal with my type two by eating a low carb diet with no dense carb foods, sticking to a very low number of gm of carbs a day as I must be really sensitive to them. I used a blood glucose meter to check on how I responded, for a couple of months, gradually tapering off the testing as I became aware of my responses - which were carbs = whoosh, basically.
I am 2 and 1/2 years from diagnosis now and feeling very well indeed - except for the last day or so as I have caught a cold - and I go all spaniel when I have a cold (as my grandmother would have said)
I deal with my type two by eating a low carb diet with no dense carb foods, sticking to a very low number of gm of carbs a day as I must be really sensitive to them. I used a blood glucose meter to check on how I responded, for a couple of months, gradually tapering off the testing as I became aware of my responses - which were carbs = whoosh, basically.
I am 2 and 1/2 years from diagnosis now and feeling very well indeed - except for the last day or so as I have caught a cold - and I go all spaniel when I have a cold (as my grandmother would have said)
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