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Diagnosis and Symptoms

I am 46 year old man diagnosed with hypothyroidism two years ago which is being treated, and, last month I started checking my blood glucose level. Based on the readings, do I have type 2 diabetes?

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I am a 24 year old female with no family history of diabetes, I exercise every morning, am not overweight, and I have none of the symptoms associated with diabetes. However, I had blood tests done, and I was told that I had borderline diabetes. This was supposedly based on an A1c of 6.1%. My blood glucose was completely normal and my urine glucose was negative. Is there any possibility that this test could be related to something else?

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My seven year old son seems to go to the bathroom three or four times in an hour from time to times, and when I checked his blood sugar with my meter, forty-five minutes after he had eaten a tuna sandwich, It was normal.

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Our six year old daughter was diagnosed with a week ago. When we got home from the hospital, she broke out with chicken pox. Can a virus cause the high sugar levels or should I go see another doctor to have her rechecked?

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My three month old daughter has had hyperglycemia since birth, and her endocrinologist suspects it’s some kind of type 1 of diabetes. Could there be some other reason for my daughter’s hyperglycemia, other than diabetes?

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Is it unusual for a child to have normal antibody tests and be classified as 1A? How exactly would we be able to distinguish the two?

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My friend’s 10 year old son with diabetes. She keeps talking about “juvenile double jeopardy diabetes”. I am unable to find anything on this. Is there such a disease? If so, what are the symptoms, and effects?

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I recently went to donate plasma at a local center and was rejected because they detected a very high amount of urine. glucose in my urine sample and suggested I get screened for diabetes. I had a glycosylated hemoglobin test done which was 5.6% ( normal). Are there a lot of causes of high glucose levels in urine that aren’t diabetes?

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My seven year old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes about three months ago. After a five hour meeting with the endocrinologist, we went home with only a follow-up visit a week later with the diabetes team. What is the reason other children are hospitalized at the time of diagnosis, and my daughter wouldn’t be?

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For at least three months or so, I have been getting extremely tired. I also have several headaches, get dizzy, and I have even passed out once or twice. Whenever I begin to feel any of these things, I try my best to eat something. When I do, I begin to feel better. I am confused by these symptoms.

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