Tuesday, August 14, 2012

diabetes with no symptoms/probable cardiovascular system damage

two more things i wanted to add:

1. my blood work has been good for lipids and fasting glucose- my A1c was 5.6, which i knew would be off since i was anemic at the two times i had it done. what i didn't realize is that the A1c will be artificially low if someone is anemic and in actuality should be much higher.

2. i have been eating not extremely high fat, but fatty sausage, burgers, eggs, etc thinking it was OK since I was eating low-carb. The problem is my diet was actually just like a high carb diet since my body couldn't process glucose correctly and my blood sugars were probably high. so i probably did some damage to my heart and vascular system which i will try to reverse.

what symptoms did i have that i was diabetic? none. sometimes you have to test based on factors other than symptoms (such as family history and other abnormalities, such as giving birth to large babies) 

2 comments:

  1. my first A1c was done when my hemoglobin was low, but within range, and it was 5.9. so there is not as much of a difference as i had originally thought before i checked my old blood work.

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  2. actually, three probable symptoms of myself running high blood sugars: 1) lots of gum recession, especially lower front teeth- need a graft (after pregnancies). 2) even earlier- giving birth to large babies. i am 5'3" and both my babies were over 8 pounds (first birth i was 30 years old, second birth 32. there was no record of gestational diabetes and i was not overweight at all pre pregnancy). 3) having a vaginal yeast infection during and after my second pregnancy 4) having urinary tract infections show up on blood work, but symptoms were not that annoying, so ignored it.

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