simple tests can confirm diabetes, most adults that get diabetes like me are type 2, the ones that get it at childhood are often called type 1. ( they are more serious of cases many times ) I take 500 ml. of metformin at breakfast and supper time before eating for my diabetes. ( your doc can tell if you need lower or higher dosages ) PLUS one time each year your doctor will do a blood test that will show if your diabetes is staying in accepted range over a 3 month period. ( he can read this by that blood test ) as far as the mouth and that other medicine you take, I don't know--hope you can get it figured out, Dan H.
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, April 9, 2010 3:27:50 AM Subject: [QUAD-L] High blood sugar 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
