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Other Illnesses

Are tics related to diabetes? Are they common in children with diabetes?

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My seven year old son has insulin levels ranging from 23 at 93, the average being 23 or less, and also has high triglyceride levels. We’ve been trying the low-fat diet and no sugar, but it doesn’t seem to work. Is there any other treatment for high triglycerides? I’m clueless.

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When he was five, my son was evaluated for possible diabetes, but they said he didn’t have it and to wait and see what happens. Now, two years later, he has symptoms again. His blood sugar was okay, but his growth hormone level is really low, and the difference between his size and other eight year olds is staggering. Can you tell me whether blood sugar and growth hormone are ever related?

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For about a year my vision has contained small transparent cell-like obstructions which drift, but appear attached in chains. Also, sometimes my vision seems slightly blurry as if the fluid in my eye contains loose fibrous particles. Is this a diabetic precursor? My doctor said they are just ‘floaters’, but what is damaging my sight and why isn’t it getting better?

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Before diagnosis of his type 1 diabetes about eight months ago, my 10 years old had a habit of scratching his penis in the bed mattress, and after the diagnosis I read that this was related to diabetes. These days he started to do the same thing again.Do you think that he has something serious in his sexual area?

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Within the last year. my 12 year old daughter has been seen by a pediatrician for stomach pain, muscle cramping, constipation, headaches, and general illness. With the blood tests they have done, they have picked up low blood glucose twice, along with trace to 3+ protein, in her urine, and, this last time, she had trace ketones. I was wondering if the low blood sugar, high protein, and ketones are tied together. What kind of doctor do we see?

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My daughter, who had type 1 diabetes, has had a mystery illness for several weeks. The medical team seems quite happy to call it an ongoing virus, but there are a lot of symptoms that show no signs of leaving.

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I’ve had diabetes for four years, and recently I skipped almost a whole month before my last period. About a week or two after my period came, I contracted a UTI or a bladder infection. Could the bladder infection be the cause my irregular periods?

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My 15 year old son, who has had type 1 diabetes, for about three years, has been complaining of right quadrant pain of stomachaches almost on a daily basis, and they think he has a fatty liver or scarring. How common is a fatty liver is common in people with diabetes? Can it lead to anything serious? What else associated with liver could be caused by type 1 diabetes in a child?

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I developed type 2 diabetes after breast cancer. I would like to know if there is any relation between diabetes and the cancer and with hypothyroidism, because I have all of them at once.

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