icon-circle-smiley-face

Diagnosis and Symptoms

My sister had a kidney infection and her sugar level was high even though she does not have diabetes. A week after she recovered, her sugar was normal. Is it possible for someone without diabetes to have a high sugar from an infection? Is she developing diabetes?

Read More

My 15 year old son was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at age 12, and was on oral agents for over a year before his endocrinologist realized that he was type 1 and needed insulin. Is this common? How many months of oral agents (increasing dosages when his sugars didn’t drop) should have passed before he was started on insulin?

Read More

For the last two years, my four year old son has been waking with migraines which occur about every three months. He then gets less severe headaches over a period of days following the migraine. Someone suggested this could be hypoglycemia. Does it sound like it?

Read More

How do MODY 1, 2 and 3 differ from each other?

Read More

I am a 48 year old who has gout, and now I have noticed that my toenails are starting to fall off. I have a strong family history of diabetes. Could I have diabetes?

Read More

A month ago, my daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and since then her blood glucose has pretty much stabilized. However, her doctor gave me the results of tests done at diagnosis, and while her C-peptide was less than 2, the ones for the antibodies were all negative. Is it necessary that she still be on insulin or could she benefit from taking a pill for to stimulate the pancreas to make insulin?

Read More

My primary care physician diagnosed me with type 2 diabetes when my HbA1c was 14.1%. Three months later had dropped to 7.0%, but, after another two months, my glucose levels gradually became harder to control, my HbA1c was back up to 9.9%, and I started insulin. Just recently, I went to an endocrinologist who diagnosed type 1 diabetes based on a C-peptide of 0.6 ng/ml. Do you think I do or ever did have type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance?

Read More

My son has sinus histiocytosis, with massive lymphadenopathy and I understand that with this disease he may also contract diabetes mellitus. It may be a case in which he is doing well right now, but I would like to make sure that he will be healthy in the long run. Where do I need to start?

Read More

My mom thinks that my dad has diabetes (so does everyone else) because it runs in the family really badly, and he has been showing a lot of signs, now I have been showing some signs and I’m only 13! I was wondering if you could help me and my father. I’m almost positive that my dad has it, but all he does is deny. Can you help me and my father?

Read More

My daughter complains of being tired, but has a problem sleeping and she said she starts shaking in midmorning. She prefers a high carbohydrate diet. Because we have family member with type 2 diabetes, I have checked some blood sugars 30 minutes after meals which have been 100-166 mg/dl [5.6-9.2 mmol/L] Is this abnormal?

Read More