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Out Of Curiosity

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Kaylz

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I seen someone state on a Facebook group that as diabetics we were more prone to UTI's and quite often too, I didn't think they were any more prone than muggles unless we had prolonged higher BG's and therefore urinating frequently so out of interest, have many of you suffered from lots of UTI's since being diabetic? What are your thoughts on us apparently being more prone to them? Of course I was told I was wrong when I tried to challenge so if you agree then I will take it lol xx
 
Yeah, I have heard that, seems that diabetics can pee out more sugar so can lead to infections, thrush is a more common one.
 
When I was diagnosed (because of repeated infections, cellulitis, in my legs), I was told that getting infections was more likely cause of diabetes. I was told this by a hospital doctor on rounds. The first question on my first morning in hospital, from the Dr, on that occation was "Are you diabetic?"
I don't know about UTI's specifically. I've not had one that I've ever been aware of. 6 years since diagnoses, and I suspect I was for some time before that.
Kaylz said:
I didn't think they were any more prone than muggles unless we had prolonged higher BG's
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I've heard that before.
Kaylz said:
therefore urinating frequently
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It would the extra sugar, giving the infection something to feed on. Just an idea though.
 
You are saying that you've heard of it but have you heard of it in well controlled diabetes or like I thought just if the person tends to suffer often with high BG's?
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I too have read this ... maybe the same facebook group
However, it is not something I have experienced.
Like you, I believe it is related to elevated BGs leading to sweet wee which bacteria and the like love.
 
I would suspect that uncontrolled Diabetics are at higher risk, it's not just my taste buds that like glucose 🙂.
 
If you read everything then diabetes puts you at higher risk of pretty much everything unfortunately. Doesn't mean you're going to get everything though. With regard to UTIs specifically, the risk is probably exactly what you have stated, that if you aren’t well controlled and have high blood sugar a lot of the time, the peeing out all that sugar can lead to infections. My mum has been type 1 for 53 years now, didn’t have all the mod cons that we have for managing her blood sugar (couldn’t even test her own blood for the first 20-ish years because home blood testing kits weren’t available) and I don’t think she's ever had any problems with UTIs.

The best thing you can do is keep your blood sugars as well controlled as you possibly can (which I know you do anyway) and then just get on with your life and ignore all those scaremongers and try not to worry about it 🙂
 
it is correct i ended up peeing out glucose and then ended up with uti problems.

think i did some posts about it early this year.
 
mikeydt1 said:
it is correct i ended up peeing out glucose and then ended up with uti problems.

think i did some posts about it early this year.
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Yes but that was with high BG, my point is this person claimed it was more common JUST because of being diabetic a lone which is not something I believe xx
 
@Sally71 I'm having higher than I like just now to be honest but adjustments are being made and hopefully all will settle when I have my home back and no stress of workmen running in and out with god knows what! LOL

But I'm not concerned, just wanted opinions on whether my thinking of if it was uncontrolled then yes more likely was seen by others
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I had a few UTIs before diagnosis and I strongly believe they were linked. I think technically we might be more at risk because we can’t guarantee always keeping our blood sugar in limits. That doesn’t mean we each as an individual have increased risk but is a general statement.

So maybe I’d say yes we as a group have an increased risk but this can be mitigated with tight control of blood glucose.
 
I think the FB person is probably misunderstanding the situation, just saying you are “at higher risk” of something doesn’t really say much. How much higher risk? E.g. you might be normally at 0.1 chance of getting a UTI, but with diabetes that goes up to 0.12, big deal. (These are random numbers I’ve just made up by the way.). Is the increased risk due to any particular situation which diabetics are more likely to find themselves in? Are there any other factors involved? It tells you nothing at all! And just saying that X% of non-diabetics get UTIs but Y% of diabetics do doesn’t necessarily mean that one causes the other, it could just be coincidence.

I realise you are under extra stress at the moment @Kaylz but a few days of numbers higher than you'd like is honestly going to make no difference at all 🙂
 
Inka said:
I had a few UTIs before diagnosis and I strongly believe they were linked. I think technically we might be more at risk because we can’t guarantee always keeping our blood sugar in limits. That doesn’t mean we each as an individual have increased risk but is a general statement.

So maybe I’d say yes we as a group have an increased risk but this can be mitigated with tight control of blood glucose.
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Probably as a 'group' we are statically at higher risk as not all of the 'group' will be fully in control of their BGs at all times. For 'simple' type 2 like me it's just down to me but for many more complex types I appreciate it's not so simple to stay in full control.
 
Well if you have a normal renal threshold, glucose doesn't start spilling into your urine until your BG is 11.0, so it's after that you start getting probs with waterworks and other equipment - by which I mean thrush.
 
Well in 20 years I have only had 2 , never been prone to them before either! The other thing some say is healing slower too, I have had no more problems healing following cuts , bad abrasions or surgery,since diagnosis either. My own take it is variable as with lots of things.
 
Doesn’t that just prove that we’re all different? - height, colouring, looks, attitudes etc etc etc but also with our own unique diabetes, I’m still working on understanding mine. My husband said it’s just like living with someone else, every time you think you know them they surprise you
 
I had my 2nd UTI infection this year and that's after almost 56 years on insulin. People with MS are prone to more problems in that dept so my MS nurse told me.
 
I have had fewer UTIs since being diagnosed.
I used to get cystitis and thrush a lot starting from when I was a child. Especially after having antibiotics for tonsilitis.

Touch wood I haven't had either since being diagnosed.
 
Kaylz said:
I seen someone state on a Facebook group that as diabetics we were more prone to UTI's and quite often too, I didn't think they were any more prone than muggles unless we had prolonged higher BG's and therefore urinating frequently so out of interest, have many of you suffered from lots of UTI's since being diabetic? What are your thoughts on us apparently being more prone to them? Of course I was told I was wrong when I tried to challenge so if you agree then I will take it lol xx
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Never had one in 4 decades Kaylz, suppose females in general are more prone to UTI's regardless of diabetes.
 
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