Is It Possible, Due to Medicine, to Have Temporary Diabetes Symptoms?
Sunday, June 20th, 2010 at
4:20 am
Lauren asked:
i was taking a bladder infection medicine the last week, and one of the possible(yet rare) symptoms was low blood sugar. i felt all of a sudden hungry a couple times, and felt dizzy and shaky also. i stopped taking it yesterday but i still felt dizzy for a short while today! 1) even though medicine was out of my system, was the dizziness today still from the medicine? 2)should i check my blood at the doctors tomorrow or just wait and hope this is all just because of the medicine, and is not actually diabetes??
my bladder infection should be gone, ive been taking the medicine for a week. and im getting my *** tested tomorrow to make sure, but i dont know if i should do a blood test. im not pregnant, im only 17. i get frequent bladder infections due to spina bifida.
i was taking a bladder infection medicine the last week, and one of the possible(yet rare) symptoms was low blood sugar. i felt all of a sudden hungry a couple times, and felt dizzy and shaky also. i stopped taking it yesterday but i still felt dizzy for a short while today! 1) even though medicine was out of my system, was the dizziness today still from the medicine? 2)should i check my blood at the doctors tomorrow or just wait and hope this is all just because of the medicine, and is not actually diabetes??
my bladder infection should be gone, ive been taking the medicine for a week. and im getting my *** tested tomorrow to make sure, but i dont know if i should do a blood test. im not pregnant, im only 17. i get frequent bladder infections due to spina bifida.
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ALWAYS tell your doctor these things. It could be the infection making you sick like that.
depends on the medication, but you could still have some of the antibiotic in your system today. Wouldn’t hurt to get checked with the MD though.
the medication can definently do that. i would call ur doctor right away and get that checked….try to drink a glass of orange juice in the mean time.
Are you pregnant? Some women have this problem when they are, and those same women usually experience bladder and/or kidney infections too. But if your not pregnant, or if you’re a guy, then this really all could be attributed to the bladder infection. But it can’t hurt to ask your doc.
yes – pharmaceuticals plan in inducing diabetes with their medicine – nothing like a diseased public to prop up profits.
you may not show any diabetes symptoms – it would not show up till it is full blown – but the side effects of many medicines are very hard on the body.
Your medication could also make these symptoms, not just causing hypoglocemia (low blood sugar). If you have low blood sugar, it doesn’t mean diabetes, diabetes is when the pancreas starts to not produce enough insulin to convert the sugar into energy. (therefore the sugar in the blood is going to be high). I have low blood sugar, but am not diabetic. Yes, you should tell your doctor about this, as it could just be from the medication, OR you have low blood sugar, even without the medication. Or it might not have been a blood sugar problem at all, but you should tell them in any case. Eating right is the main key in correcting the symptoms you mentioned. Peanut butter and crackers, bread, things of this nature help to keep sugar levels up longer. Eating sugary foods will raise the level, but will peak at a high then drop possibly even lower than they were before. If you are having symptoms, you could eat something sweet to get it up then have a few crackers and orange juice or something to maintain it. Sugary foods work faster, and the crackers/peanut butter will take a little longer to have an effect. You could also carry around peppermint candies to have on hand. But you should be tested to make sure it is even a blood sugar problem, that way you’ll know what you need to do,,,even high blood sugar can cause some of these symptoms. There is a simple blood test your doc can do that will go back for a couple of months giving average blood sugar amounts.
go to your doctor this can be caused by two things low blood sugar or low iron in your system to figure this out is a simple blood test and can be taken care of with either changing your med or adding a iron pill