I have another question on being diagnosed as a diabetic because my
blood level average has now elevated.
My physician put me on hydrochlorothiazide for blood pressure, not sure if
it was 1 or 2 years
ago. Over the past year my blood level average went from 6 to 7.8 today and
the doctor told me
I have diabetes and I am now on meds to control diabetis.
Later I happened to read online that hydrochlorathiazide
raises blood sugar levels and can actually cause diabetes.
I have also complained and sought treatment for a sore mouth.
Nothing looks sore, examination by the doctor also nothing, but
my mouth was so sore at times I could not eat ketshup because of the salt
or drink soda because carbonation hurt my mouth. My description was
"just as if my mouth was on fire."
I also have an increase in yeast infections in the groin and skin fold
areas.
FOUND THIS ONLINE:
To understand the link between yeast infection and diabetes, you have to
know how yeast infections occur. In our gastro-intestinal tract there are
lots of bacteria - good ones and bad ones. Due to some changes in our diet or
lifestyle, this fragile balance can be broken. One bacteria present in our
GI is yeast.
Yeast overgrowth is the main cause of chronic yeast infections. The main
cause of it is because of eating too much sugar. This produces not only
diabetes, but also candida infections. If you experience repetitive candida
outbreaks, a good advice will be to check the levels of glucose from your
blood.
Diabetes is not the only cause of systemic yeast infection, off course.
However, a high level of sugar consumption does trigger yeast infections.
Sugar feeds the yeast in your body, the same as yeast type foods and
carbohydrates.
ALSO FOUND:
Burning Mouth Syndrome
Burning mouth syndrome is a fairly common but poorly understood condition
that most frequently affects post-menopausal females.(I'm male) People
affected by it experience abnormal sensations of the mouth (burning sensation
of the tongue) as well as alterations in taste and mouth texture. The nerves
of the mouth may become hyperirritable, and even normal, barely-notable
sensations (like the tongue rubbing against the teeth) may seem painful or
uncomfortable.
Cause
Although the cause of this disorder is not known, most of the evidence
suggests that this is a minor (but annoying) problem with certain nerves
(called sensory nerves) that supply information from the oral tissues,
especially
the tongue, roof of the mouth and lips, to the brain. This
"misinformation" includes telling the brain that the mouth (especially the
tongue) feels
scalded ("burning" sensation), that bad tastes are present, or that the
texture of the mouth is wrong (usually a "dry" feeling).
Much less frequently, burning tongue symptoms may be caused by oral yeast
infection or certain rare types of anemia and these should be ruled out in
order to make a diagnosis for burning mouth syndrome. If yeast infection of
the mouth is suspected, it would have to be proven by doing a culture
(swab) of the lining of the mouth. If yeast is present, the problem should be
easily treated with antifungal medication.
Anything sound familar?
I was put on Blood pressure meds, my blood level rises as does my incidents
of yeast infections
and my mouth starts to bother me.
Is my problems linked to hydrochlorothiazide?
GA
