What happens to you if you don’t have diabetes but take a diabetes medication to lower your blood sugar?
I’m not a specialist in this field, but I am fully qualified in biology.If you don’t have elevated blood sugar (ie you have normal blood sugar levels) and you take medication to lower it, then you have low blood sugar. That is not a good thing.You will feel dazed and woozy and might pass out spontaneously. Keep this up and you might die.There is a current scare on sugar and also on salt. Both of these are essential to your health. Too much of either is bad - but too little of either is worse. A little too much, no problem, your body will excrete the excess. Way too much and it starts to cause damage.Too little, especially with salt, well… your body cannot create sodium. It’s an element. You’ll go into hyponatremia and die much faster than someone taking too much salt. Your body can make sugar out of other materials but if your breath smells like acetone (nail polish remover), your body is ripping apart proteins to make sugars and you are in ketoacidosisBasically, if you don’t have diabetes, don’t take medication for it. Taking any medication designed to correct a problem you don’t have is going to make you ill.
What happens if I take insulin if I’m not diabetic?
Look, if you inject insulin hoping to gain some advantage in strength or weight lifting, then you’re really nothing more than a cheater and more than a bit of a dumbass.Insulin is a highly anabolic hormone. Yes, it is almost impossible to discern injected insulin from that produced by your body. So, the possibility exists to gain an edge while not making yourself disqualified by the governing organization.It’s just incredibly stupid. The worst case scenario is actually quite likely. You inject too much, get hypoglycemia and do things like pass out in the car causing a wreck that might kill yourself and others. You could also just get hypoglycemia and slip into a coma that you never come back from. Dead. Kaput.Let’s assume you’re clever and can avoid that. We’re lucky to know a lot about insulin since it’s such a crucial hormone in the body. We also know a lot about chronic higher levels of insulin. When you inject insulin, you start yourself on the same pathways that happen to type 2 diabetics. You may build muscle, but you will also get fat. You may get not just fat, but really, really obese. The same anabolic properties also make insulin inflammatory in the body. You get high blood pressure. You begin to get damage to the linings of your artery. You set yourself up for certain types of cancers such as colon cancer. By injecting insulin you actually set your body up to become insulin resistant to its own insulin. Do it and you can actually give yourself a case of self inflicted type 2 diabetes.It’s just stupid. I know this trick and know where these questions are coming from in cyberspace. Don’t do it. If you value your health in the future, it’s a really bad idea.
What happens if you have diabetes and you don't know it?
Question 1 & 2 - Eventually your body will start to have major issues that can not be ignored - BUT THAT IN MOST CASES IS AFTER MAJOR ORGAN DAMAGE HAS ALREADY OCCURRED (Kidney Failure, Blindness, Gangrene of the toes, etc). Question 3 - Some of the more common symptoms are - Low Blood Sugar (BS) - Hunger, Fatigue, Weakness, Sleepy, Confused, Loss of Concentration, Weight Loss. High BS - Thirst, Increased urination, Nausea & vomiting. ALSO, not ALL Diabetics require Insulin, in many cases, Diabetes can be controlled with Diet and Exercise alone, some also need oral medication, and some Insulin. If you think he might have Diabetes, you should take him to be tested. Most Hospitals have yearly Health Fairs where they will test for free, or almost free. You can also call your Counties local Health Department and ask them for help, or call your local American Diabetes Chapter. Also, many Hospitals have on staff Diabetic Nurses that do Community seminars and testing for free, so call their Nursing Administration office and ask for help. Good Luck.
What happens if a diabetic eats a lot of sugar?
Nothing happens in the short term. Having raised blood sugar from eating lots of sugar is no different in diabetics or healthy individuals.What does the damage for diabetics is the permanently raised blood sugar- they can’t get the sugar out of their blood, so it stays there.Insulin’s job is to get sugar out of the blood, and all type 2 diabetes is, is insulin resistance. Your cells no longer respond to insulin, so the sugar never leaves the blood like it does in everyone else.When the sugar stays in your blood it rots everything. Your body cells are bathed in sugar non-stop. You tend to get nerve damage in the feet as well as other cellular damage, which is why diabetics often have to have their feet chopped off since their feet literally rot off them. The tiny cells in your eyes are also very sensitive to damage, so your eyesight fails and you may develop cataracts. The liver is never flushed, so cirrhosis and liver scarring is common.As for your question details, if you try to take insulin to counter the high sugar, but keep eating lots of glycaemic foods, you will not be able to take enough. This is because your cells are insulin resistant- they don’t respond to insulin very well. If you just keep pumping more and more insulin into the blood you will get more of a response, but then you will become increasingly insulin resistant.I know this isn’t part of the question per se, but the best things to do diet-wise to avoid high sugar would be to go on a low carb/ zero carb diet. This is because fat is digested differently and has low impact on blood sugars compared to eating carbohydrates or sugars, so you never have significantly raised blood sugar in the same way you do if you eat lots of carbs. The best thing to do exercise-wise is HIIT training- this flushes the sugar out of your muscle and liver and sugar will be stored here instead of the blood- you have 1500+ calories of storage to use up. Interestingly enough flushing the liver seems to drastically increase insulin sensitivity, meaning you will reduce your blood sugar levels extremely effectively in the short term, AND you will decrease your insulin resistance rapidly leading to long term cure of diabetes. Each HIIT session contains a total of 60 seconds of exercise, and is suitable for very unfit people who cannot perform traditional exercise such as a 10 minute cycle.
What could happen if you take diabetic medicine and you are not a diabetic?
I find it hard to believe a pharmacist can mix up a BP medication with a diabetic medication - was he/she new to the job? If so their orders should have been checked by someone else. If you take diabetic medication, your body will utilise (burn) more sugar and this means your organs are not getting the glucose (sugar) they need. In rare cases, people can go into a coma and die. All diabetic medications (including Insulin) work in different ways as well. There is no such thing as 'reverse diabetes' - I don't know who coined that term. If you have had no side effects, and your Dr feels you are OK, I wouldn't worry too much. Did you get your BP checked? Always check your medications with the pharmacist before taking them home - I do and I am a nurse! (I have been given wrong doses of medication by pharmacists & this is just as dangerous).
What happens if you drink Pepsi with type 1 diabetes?
Absolutely nothing happens as long as your friend knows s/he is drinking Pepsi (doesn't think it's Diet Pepsi) and takes the carb intake into account when dosing insulin. It's the same as all other foods and beverages s/he has. And please pardon my potentially poor terminology - I just wanted to get the concept out there.
How do i know if i have diabetes?
I had ceral, popcorn, carrots, burgers and fries, fruit snacks (3) and a brownie with small ice cream. While im typing this, i have minor mussle spasms and the arm and rectum. Im worried for my health. I need to know.
How do you know if you have Diabetes ?
There are no signs "knowing you have this", my friend, apart from having chronically higher than 'normal' blood sugar (glucose) levels. ALL of the symptoms can be indicative of other medical conditions, hence the importance of having your blood sugar level tested. Even then, ONLY a practicing medical doctor can legally make the diagnosis. Some of the symptoms that might make you aware that you should see your doctor include what are commonly referred to as the three Ps ... polyuria (frequent urination), polydipsia (excessive thirst) and polyphagia (extreme hunger). (The urination tends to occur more frequently during the night hours than you might otherwise have been used to, and you MAY experience 'accidents' in your bed. You'll PROBABLY find that you need to urinate 2 or 3 times during the night.) Other symptoms that might alert you include: > extreme tiredness/lethargy > frequent infections ... usually of the groin > poor healing wounds. i.e. wounds that would normally take a few days to heal can take weeks, months, even years to heal. (I currently have a foot ulcer that's been with me for just over 3 years now, even though it's regularly being treated by podiatrists and redressed twice a week by our district nurse service.) > blurred vision > sudden, unexpected weight loss. i.e. you're not dieting or have suddenly taken on more exercise > nausea/vomiting > SOME people who've had chronically high blood sugar levels for an extended period of time MAY experience tingling or numbness in their feet/toes and/or fingers/hands. (This would be people who have developed type 2 diabetes as symptoms can take, literally, years to develop. In type 1 diabetes the symptoms tend to appear quickly and dramatically.)
How do you know if you have diabetes?
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