question about CFRD

blindhearted · Jun 5, 2008

Thanks Amy. I havent had a Glucose Tolerance test since I was around 15 or so, I'm guessing. I was still with my local peditrican. I know they draw labs for the Hemoglobin A1C. I will mention it when I go in July, maybe before hand in case they want me to do it that day.

blindhearted · Jun 5, 2008

Thanks Amy. I havent had a Glucose Tolerance test since I was around 15 or so, I'm guessing. I was still with my local peditrican. I know they draw labs for the Hemoglobin A1C. I will mention it when I go in July, maybe before hand in case they want me to do it that day.

blindhearted · Jun 5, 2008

Thanks Amy. I havent had a Glucose Tolerance test since I was around 15 or so, I'm guessing. I was still with my local peditrican. I know they draw labs for the Hemoglobin A1C. I will mention it when I go in July, maybe before hand in case they want me to do it that day.

blindhearted · Jun 5, 2008

Thanks Amy. I havent had a Glucose Tolerance test since I was around 15 or so, I'm guessing. I was still with my local peditrican. I know they draw labs for the Hemoglobin A1C. I will mention it when I go in July, maybe before hand in case they want me to do it that day.

blindhearted · Jun 5, 2008

Thanks Amy. I havent had a Glucose Tolerance test since I was around 15 or so, I'm guessing. I was still with my local peditrican. I know they draw labs for the Hemoglobin A1C. I will mention it when I go in July, maybe before hand in case they want me to do it that day.

rubyroselee · Jun 5, 2008

Hi Danyell,

I was also interested in knowing if being hypoglycemic all the time meant that CFRD was around the corner.

I have gotten hypoglycemic for many years now, and it always happens between breakfast and lunch. I must eat something between that period or my sugar drops. It is particularly bad if I have a high-sugar breakfast and then my sugars bottom out a couple hours later.

I just had a 3-hr glucose test done (which is protocol for pregnancy anyways) a couple weeks ago. My levels were wonderful! They stayed between 90-110 the entire time.

But the other day I was at work, and I had a very high-sugar drink in the morning (probably even more sugar than the glucose drinks!). A couple hours later I was feeling terrible weak and shaky and knew that I was starting to get hypo. I made a Pop Tart and grabbed a juice and started eating. I was still feeling hypo and was starting to feel really strange and out of it. We have a glucose monitor at our work (at a doctor's office), so I thought I'd test my blood to see what it was. It was 50! So I ran back to my desk and started shoving the food and juice in my mouth because I was really starting to feel funky at that point. My coworker was trying to ask me questions and I was just sort of in the 'zone' trying to get my sugars back up. After a few minutes I was feeling much better.

I also think that I start to *feel* hypo much sooner than I should. I mean, there are times when I'm feeling shaky and I check my sugar and it's like 85...within normal, but maybe on the low side for me or on it's way to being lower.

I have also spoke to my doctor and dietician about it and they don't think it necessarily correlates with getting CFRD, but they say it's common.

I'm glad most CF centers are doing OGTT's now.

rubyroselee · Jun 5, 2008

Hi Danyell,

I was also interested in knowing if being hypoglycemic all the time meant that CFRD was around the corner.

I have gotten hypoglycemic for many years now, and it always happens between breakfast and lunch. I must eat something between that period or my sugar drops. It is particularly bad if I have a high-sugar breakfast and then my sugars bottom out a couple hours later.

I just had a 3-hr glucose test done (which is protocol for pregnancy anyways) a couple weeks ago. My levels were wonderful! They stayed between 90-110 the entire time.

But the other day I was at work, and I had a very high-sugar drink in the morning (probably even more sugar than the glucose drinks!). A couple hours later I was feeling terrible weak and shaky and knew that I was starting to get hypo. I made a Pop Tart and grabbed a juice and started eating. I was still feeling hypo and was starting to feel really strange and out of it. We have a glucose monitor at our work (at a doctor's office), so I thought I'd test my blood to see what it was. It was 50! So I ran back to my desk and started shoving the food and juice in my mouth because I was really starting to feel funky at that point. My coworker was trying to ask me questions and I was just sort of in the 'zone' trying to get my sugars back up. After a few minutes I was feeling much better.

I also think that I start to *feel* hypo much sooner than I should. I mean, there are times when I'm feeling shaky and I check my sugar and it's like 85...within normal, but maybe on the low side for me or on it's way to being lower.

I have also spoke to my doctor and dietician about it and they don't think it necessarily correlates with getting CFRD, but they say it's common.

I'm glad most CF centers are doing OGTT's now.

rubyroselee · Jun 5, 2008

Hi Danyell,

I was also interested in knowing if being hypoglycemic all the time meant that CFRD was around the corner.

I have gotten hypoglycemic for many years now, and it always happens between breakfast and lunch. I must eat something between that period or my sugar drops. It is particularly bad if I have a high-sugar breakfast and then my sugars bottom out a couple hours later.

I just had a 3-hr glucose test done (which is protocol for pregnancy anyways) a couple weeks ago. My levels were wonderful! They stayed between 90-110 the entire time.

But the other day I was at work, and I had a very high-sugar drink in the morning (probably even more sugar than the glucose drinks!). A couple hours later I was feeling terrible weak and shaky and knew that I was starting to get hypo. I made a Pop Tart and grabbed a juice and started eating. I was still feeling hypo and was starting to feel really strange and out of it. We have a glucose monitor at our work (at a doctor's office), so I thought I'd test my blood to see what it was. It was 50! So I ran back to my desk and started shoving the food and juice in my mouth because I was really starting to feel funky at that point. My coworker was trying to ask me questions and I was just sort of in the 'zone' trying to get my sugars back up. After a few minutes I was feeling much better.

I also think that I start to *feel* hypo much sooner than I should. I mean, there are times when I'm feeling shaky and I check my sugar and it's like 85...within normal, but maybe on the low side for me or on it's way to being lower.

I have also spoke to my doctor and dietician about it and they don't think it necessarily correlates with getting CFRD, but they say it's common.

I'm glad most CF centers are doing OGTT's now.

rubyroselee · Jun 5, 2008

Hi Danyell,

I was also interested in knowing if being hypoglycemic all the time meant that CFRD was around the corner.

I have gotten hypoglycemic for many years now, and it always happens between breakfast and lunch. I must eat something between that period or my sugar drops. It is particularly bad if I have a high-sugar breakfast and then my sugars bottom out a couple hours later.

I just had a 3-hr glucose test done (which is protocol for pregnancy anyways) a couple weeks ago. My levels were wonderful! They stayed between 90-110 the entire time.

But the other day I was at work, and I had a very high-sugar drink in the morning (probably even more sugar than the glucose drinks!). A couple hours later I was feeling terrible weak and shaky and knew that I was starting to get hypo. I made a Pop Tart and grabbed a juice and started eating. I was still feeling hypo and was starting to feel really strange and out of it. We have a glucose monitor at our work (at a doctor's office), so I thought I'd test my blood to see what it was. It was 50! So I ran back to my desk and started shoving the food and juice in my mouth because I was really starting to feel funky at that point. My coworker was trying to ask me questions and I was just sort of in the 'zone' trying to get my sugars back up. After a few minutes I was feeling much better.

I also think that I start to *feel* hypo much sooner than I should. I mean, there are times when I'm feeling shaky and I check my sugar and it's like 85...within normal, but maybe on the low side for me or on it's way to being lower.

I have also spoke to my doctor and dietician about it and they don't think it necessarily correlates with getting CFRD, but they say it's common.

I'm glad most CF centers are doing OGTT's now.

rubyroselee · Jun 5, 2008

Hi Danyell,
 
 I was also interested in knowing if being hypoglycemic all the time meant that CFRD was around the corner.
 
 I have gotten hypoglycemic for many years now, and it always happens between breakfast and lunch. I must eat something between that period or my sugar drops. It is particularly bad if I have a high-sugar breakfast and then my sugars bottom out a couple hours later.
 
 I just had a 3-hr glucose test done (which is protocol for pregnancy anyways) a couple weeks ago. My levels were wonderful! They stayed between 90-110 the entire time.
 
 But the other day I was at work, and I had a very high-sugar drink in the morning (probably even more sugar than the glucose drinks!). A couple hours later I was feeling terrible weak and shaky and knew that I was starting to get hypo. I made a Pop Tart and grabbed a juice and started eating. I was still feeling hypo and was starting to feel really strange and out of it. We have a glucose monitor at our work (at a doctor's office), so I thought I'd test my blood to see what it was. It was 50! So I ran back to my desk and started shoving the food and juice in my mouth because I was really starting to feel funky at that point. My coworker was trying to ask me questions and I was just sort of in the 'zone' trying to get my sugars back up. After a few minutes I was feeling much better.
 
 I also think that I start to *feel* hypo much sooner than I should. I mean, there are times when I'm feeling shaky and I check my sugar and it's like 85...within normal, but maybe on the low side for me or on it's way to being lower.
 
 I have also spoke to my doctor and dietician about it and they don't think it necessarily correlates with getting CFRD, but they say it's common.
 
 I'm glad most CF centers are doing OGTT's now.

lilmac7 · Jun 6, 2008

Geez! I'm gonna sound quite dumb right about now but so that's symptoms of hypoglycemia, wow! I remember in my teens in high school when I went through periods of this. This was a time when I had not had a check up at a cf clinic in years due to insurance issues (I couldn't get insured and was battiling to get myself coverred by the Govt. here where I live (different setup here from most countries) and the docs here were basically treating me from an accute stand point and not from good maintenance point as they simply don't have the expertise for it and my diet was really bad for what I needed amongst other aspects. But anyway, I remember times in some classes where, and it always started this way for me, I'd start to feel light/giddy headed with the vision issues then it would progress to numbness/tingling in one of my hands which would gradually move up my arm to the side of my face and to my tongue and I'd fee quite disoriented. It happened once in English class when we were going through a book and taking turns reading paragraphs, by the time the numbness reached to my tongue my speech got all slurred and I couldn't think straight. I remember trying so hard to concentrate and the book was spinning and the words I'm sure just weren't coming out like what was in the book. Everyone must've thought I was on some drugs or something! After that progressed then I'd get an incredible migrane. I complained of it and can't remember it ever being suggested to being hypoglycemic. But thankfully it's been years since an episode like that has happened to me (knocks on wood!). Im really curious now to know what my blood sugar level turns out to be with an episode like that. I remember feeling so close to passing out and seeing as if my vision was like a black curtain closing in then I'd get reaaly frightened and my heart would start racing and slowly vision returned. I hated those episodes! And to be honest how I grew to stop them was noticing that anytime it would start I'd have cravings for sweet stuff and I'd do just what was said carry candy with me and pop one just as I noticed it...funny how the body has it's way of letting you know what's wrong! Eventually the episodes stopped all together not sure how or why

lilmac7 · Jun 6, 2008

Geez! I'm gonna sound quite dumb right about now but so that's symptoms of hypoglycemia, wow! I remember in my teens in high school when I went through periods of this. This was a time when I had not had a check up at a cf clinic in years due to insurance issues (I couldn't get insured and was battiling to get myself coverred by the Govt. here where I live (different setup here from most countries) and the docs here were basically treating me from an accute stand point and not from good maintenance point as they simply don't have the expertise for it and my diet was really bad for what I needed amongst other aspects. But anyway, I remember times in some classes where, and it always started this way for me, I'd start to feel light/giddy headed with the vision issues then it would progress to numbness/tingling in one of my hands which would gradually move up my arm to the side of my face and to my tongue and I'd fee quite disoriented. It happened once in English class when we were going through a book and taking turns reading paragraphs, by the time the numbness reached to my tongue my speech got all slurred and I couldn't think straight. I remember trying so hard to concentrate and the book was spinning and the words I'm sure just weren't coming out like what was in the book. Everyone must've thought I was on some drugs or something! After that progressed then I'd get an incredible migrane. I complained of it and can't remember it ever being suggested to being hypoglycemic. But thankfully it's been years since an episode like that has happened to me (knocks on wood!). Im really curious now to know what my blood sugar level turns out to be with an episode like that. I remember feeling so close to passing out and seeing as if my vision was like a black curtain closing in then I'd get reaaly frightened and my heart would start racing and slowly vision returned. I hated those episodes! And to be honest how I grew to stop them was noticing that anytime it would start I'd have cravings for sweet stuff and I'd do just what was said carry candy with me and pop one just as I noticed it...funny how the body has it's way of letting you know what's wrong! Eventually the episodes stopped all together not sure how or why

lilmac7 · Jun 6, 2008

Geez! I'm gonna sound quite dumb right about now but so that's symptoms of hypoglycemia, wow! I remember in my teens in high school when I went through periods of this. This was a time when I had not had a check up at a cf clinic in years due to insurance issues (I couldn't get insured and was battiling to get myself coverred by the Govt. here where I live (different setup here from most countries) and the docs here were basically treating me from an accute stand point and not from good maintenance point as they simply don't have the expertise for it and my diet was really bad for what I needed amongst other aspects. But anyway, I remember times in some classes where, and it always started this way for me, I'd start to feel light/giddy headed with the vision issues then it would progress to numbness/tingling in one of my hands which would gradually move up my arm to the side of my face and to my tongue and I'd fee quite disoriented. It happened once in English class when we were going through a book and taking turns reading paragraphs, by the time the numbness reached to my tongue my speech got all slurred and I couldn't think straight. I remember trying so hard to concentrate and the book was spinning and the words I'm sure just weren't coming out like what was in the book. Everyone must've thought I was on some drugs or something! After that progressed then I'd get an incredible migrane. I complained of it and can't remember it ever being suggested to being hypoglycemic. But thankfully it's been years since an episode like that has happened to me (knocks on wood!). Im really curious now to know what my blood sugar level turns out to be with an episode like that. I remember feeling so close to passing out and seeing as if my vision was like a black curtain closing in then I'd get reaaly frightened and my heart would start racing and slowly vision returned. I hated those episodes! And to be honest how I grew to stop them was noticing that anytime it would start I'd have cravings for sweet stuff and I'd do just what was said carry candy with me and pop one just as I noticed it...funny how the body has it's way of letting you know what's wrong! Eventually the episodes stopped all together not sure how or why

lilmac7 · Jun 6, 2008

Geez! I'm gonna sound quite dumb right about now but so that's symptoms of hypoglycemia, wow! I remember in my teens in high school when I went through periods of this. This was a time when I had not had a check up at a cf clinic in years due to insurance issues (I couldn't get insured and was battiling to get myself coverred by the Govt. here where I live (different setup here from most countries) and the docs here were basically treating me from an accute stand point and not from good maintenance point as they simply don't have the expertise for it and my diet was really bad for what I needed amongst other aspects. But anyway, I remember times in some classes where, and it always started this way for me, I'd start to feel light/giddy headed with the vision issues then it would progress to numbness/tingling in one of my hands which would gradually move up my arm to the side of my face and to my tongue and I'd fee quite disoriented. It happened once in English class when we were going through a book and taking turns reading paragraphs, by the time the numbness reached to my tongue my speech got all slurred and I couldn't think straight. I remember trying so hard to concentrate and the book was spinning and the words I'm sure just weren't coming out like what was in the book. Everyone must've thought I was on some drugs or something! After that progressed then I'd get an incredible migrane. I complained of it and can't remember it ever being suggested to being hypoglycemic. But thankfully it's been years since an episode like that has happened to me (knocks on wood!). Im really curious now to know what my blood sugar level turns out to be with an episode like that. I remember feeling so close to passing out and seeing as if my vision was like a black curtain closing in then I'd get reaaly frightened and my heart would start racing and slowly vision returned. I hated those episodes! And to be honest how I grew to stop them was noticing that anytime it would start I'd have cravings for sweet stuff and I'd do just what was said carry candy with me and pop one just as I noticed it...funny how the body has it's way of letting you know what's wrong! Eventually the episodes stopped all together not sure how or why

lilmac7 · Jun 6, 2008

Geez! I'm gonna sound quite dumb right about now but so that's symptoms of hypoglycemia, wow! I remember in my teens in high school when I went through periods of this. This was a time when I had not had a check up at a cf clinic in years due to insurance issues (I couldn't get insured and was battiling to get myself coverred by the Govt. here where I live (different setup here from most countries) and the docs here were basically treating me from an accute stand point and not from good maintenance point as they simply don't have the expertise for it and my diet was really bad for what I needed amongst other aspects. But anyway, I remember times in some classes where, and it always started this way for me, I'd start to feel light/giddy headed with the vision issues then it would progress to numbness/tingling in one of my hands which would gradually move up my arm to the side of my face and to my tongue and I'd fee quite disoriented. It happened once in English class when we were going through a book and taking turns reading paragraphs, by the time the numbness reached to my tongue my speech got all slurred and I couldn't think straight. I remember trying so hard to concentrate and the book was spinning and the words I'm sure just weren't coming out like what was in the book. Everyone must've thought I was on some drugs or something! After that progressed then I'd get an incredible migrane. I complained of it and can't remember it ever being suggested to being hypoglycemic. But thankfully it's been years since an episode like that has happened to me (knocks on wood!). Im really curious now to know what my blood sugar level turns out to be with an episode like that. I remember feeling so close to passing out and seeing as if my vision was like a black curtain closing in then I'd get reaaly frightened and my heart would start racing and slowly vision returned. I hated those episodes! And to be honest how I grew to stop them was noticing that anytime it would start I'd have cravings for sweet stuff and I'd do just what was said carry candy with me and pop one just as I noticed it...funny how the body has it's way of letting you know what's wrong! Eventually the episodes stopped all together not sure how or why

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