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I have type 1 diabetes, I’m training for a marathon, and my blood sugar often spikes in the first five miles of running. Today, I tried creatine for performance improvement, and my blood sugar spiked and keeps going up. Is creatine to blame or should I suspect some other cause?

January 22, 2003
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For the last four years, I have experienced a small lump just under my right rib cage, about an inch down from where my rib meets the sternum. I suffer constipation at least twice a week, in the last year, I have lost 20 pounds and seem to be fatigued during the day. Could this be a pancreatic cyst? Could this be a gall bladder situation?

January 22, 2003
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My eight year old son is currently on medications for ADHD. He terrible mood swings, expresses a lot of anger, and he also is a bed wetter. Is there something with my son’s blood sugar that could be causing his mood swings, hyperactivity, anger and betting wetting?

January 22, 2003
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I have type 2 diabetes and can control my sugar until I eat, but then it goes high. I take Glucotrol XL, and my doctor gave me Starlix to take before I eat, but this has had no effect at all. I am aware about exercise, and, although I am overweight, I am working on this, and I am careful of what I eat. Any suggestions would be most helpful.

January 22, 2003
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I am a 16 year old who was recently diagnosed with hypoglycemia, and I am not too sure about a few things.

January 22, 2003
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My morning sugar levels are very high (130-180 mg/dl [7.2-10 mmol/L]), but my hemoglobin A1c values are always below 6% (5.6% the last time). Should I be concerned enough to do something about the high levels in the morning?

January 22, 2003
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When my 10 month old son was recently admitted into the hospital with RSV, he had an elevated blood sugar, but the hospital did not address this issue with us nor did they run another test. My family physician is concerned and has ordered more blood tests, but I have not noticed any of the usual warning signs of diabetes. Would it be obvious that he had diabetes

January 22, 2003
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How does one determine the difference between malnutrition-related diabetes mellitus (MRDM) and type 1 diabetes?

January 21, 2003
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My endocrinologist has left to practice in another country, and before she left, she started me on the NovoLog plus Lantus routine. Our next step was to work on the sliding scale, but it never happened, and I’d like this information to give to my internist who is going to work with me on this. What is the formula for the sliding scale when you use NovoLog for short-acting and Lantus for basal?

January 21, 2003
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I have been told that along with stress, pain can cause your body to increase adrenalin which then causes your glucose levels to rise and that illness is also a factor. Is this an accurate assessment?

January 21, 2003
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