The key to determining if there is something going on medically is a matter of knowing your own body in many cases. This is especially true for a woman questioning the possibility of a pregnancy. She will know when her body isnt behaving as it usually does and will probably know the reason sooner than a missed period. At least, she will more than likely suspect the happy news. The symptoms of pregnancy are like every pregnancy, they vary and are likely to be different for each woman each time she has a baby. While no two babies are just alike neither is the pregnancy that got them here.
It is interesting how some symptoms of pregnancy are so small they almost dont register with the mother to be. Feelings of fatigue are often attributed to a lot of stress or heavy workload. Morning sickness gets blamed on a virus going around. Missing a period is a pretty solid indicator though. Of course, certain disorders or stress can cause a woman to miss her period, but usually a MIA period is cause for celebration.
Early moodiness or tearfulness is often one of the most overlooked symptoms of pregnancy. This is a common occurrence that can leave the mom to be feeling like she will never feel normal again. The good news is this symptom usually gets better as the pregnant woman adjusts to the tremendous surge of hormones in her body. The support and understanding of influential people in her life, like her partner, and family and friends, makes this stage easier for the mother and everyone else involved.
Sleepiness and fatigue are other symptoms of pregnancy that are sometimes overlooked. They are easy to associate with everyday life stresses and a busy schedule. It is important for a mom to be to rest as often as possible and when she feels overly tired. The rapid growth of baby requires a lot of energy and the pregnant woman may find that there doesnt seem to be any energy left for her. Avoiding unnecessary stress and reworking household chores to give mom time to rest are good ways to help ensure a healthy, restful pregnancy for mom and baby.
As perplexing and confusing as symptoms of pregnancy can be, a good way to proceed if there is any question is to behave as if a child is on the way. That way no harm will come to the child from unhealthy behaviors, and if there is not a little one on the way, there is not any harm in clean living until the question is answered.
Insulin receptors or cells that accept insulin don't function well or are in short supply. This usually occurs in overweight people over 40. These people don't always need insulin injections but their blood sugar level can be controlled by means of diet, exercise, and oral hypoglycemic agents -medications taken by mouth that lower the concentration of sugar in the blood.
"Most persons with NIDDM are overweight or obese. Excess weight worsens the state of the diabetes, and weight reduction has a favorable effect. In some instances, insulin injections will be required to keep blood glucose concentrations within satisfactory limits but, unlike the situation in IDDM, omission of these injections will not result in complications," said Dr. David E. Larson, editor-in-chief of the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book.
"Medicines taken by mouth called oral hypoglycemic agents, often are helpful in NIDDM but are of no value for treating IDDM (insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus). As a result of a weight-loss program, insulin or an oral hypoglycemic medication often may be decreased or eliminated," he added.
The classic symptoms of diabetes are frequent urination and thirst, excessive hunger, weight loss in spite of increased appetite, fatigue, nausea and vomiting. Other signs are itching in the genital area, skin infections, slow healing of cuts and bruises, blurred vision, and occasionally, impotence in men and lack of menstruation in women.
In mild cases or in those with NIDDM, these symptoms may exist for years but the disease is discovered only during a routine examination which reveals high concentrations of sugar in the blood (hyperglycemia) or urine (glycosuria).
Before the advent of insulin, there was a very little hope for diabetics. Most of them lived for a few months only. A diagnosis of diabetes in those days was like getting a death sentence. As Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld of the New York Hospital Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said in The Best Treatment:
"This knowledge about how insulin works the juvenile verses the adult form of diabetes, insulin receptors, and the auto immune concept - has all come to light only in the last decade or so. Leafing through a medical book published in the early 1900's, I found the symptoms of diabetes - thirst, frequent urination, weight loss, increased appetite, itching and coma - accurately described. But although high blood sugar was recognized as the cause, insulin was not destined to be discover until the 1920's.
"In the same text the author stated that most children with diabetes live only six months to four years after the diagnosis is made. Death on those days came in the form of 'exhaustion' or coma. Treatment consisted of an absolutely rigid diet without even a trace of a sugar or starch - no bread, milk, potatoes, carrots, and not a single fruit. No wonder these kids died so soon," Rosenfeld said. (Next: Complications of diabetes,)
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