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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / August 2007Diabetes and the Heat
I just came back from shopping and I thought I was going to faint. I have n oticed that in the last few years I cant bear anything over 80. Today is 91 and I feel wilted. Does anyone else contribute being hotter to the diabetes. I am just wondering, I am lying like a pancake. Hope there are no power outtages Loretta > I just came back from shopping and I thought I was going to faint. I > have n oticed that in the last few years I cant bear anything over 80. > Today is 91 and I feel wilted. > > Does anyone else contribute being hotter to the diabetes. I am just > wondering, I am lying like a pancake. Hope there are no power outtages Yes, Loretta, adrenal suppression leads to heat intolerance. I had it bad last year when I was on metformin, and I have it now due to Cushing's. I just get limp, weak and feel weak and faint from heat now. I don't think it's the DM, but it may be other endocrine cause, and/or meds. Susan Susan, do you immune suppression conditions . What is the adrenal thing. I still havent come to myself, I just tested. I had three tiny blintzes for lunch. Usually, when I have had it I am usually about 130 at one hour and normal at two. Today I am 154 about 1 1/2. could the heat cause the spike. Loretta thanks for the info > Susan, do you immune suppression conditions . You mean like diabetes? What is the adrenal > thing. It's kind of the master endocrine system that runs your body. Heat and cold intolerance both are typical in cases of endocrine dysfunction, adrenal and thyroid, for example. Diabetes meds tend to suppress adrenal function, because higher insulin levels (and sensitivity) interferes with cortisol getting into our cells. > I still havent come to myself, I just tested. I had three tiny > blintzes for lunch. Usually, when I have had it I am usually about 130 > at one hour and normal at two. Today I am 154 about 1 1/2. could the > heat cause the spike. It could if it dehydrated you or if your cortisol is higher due to the stress of the heat. Susan Susan, you are a very smart woman. thanks for the info. Loretta > Susan, you are a very smart woman. thanks for the info. > Loretta Thanks, Loretta, but it's not smarts so much as too damned much experience with illness! Susan Loretta Eisenberg wrote in message <12323-46B220E2-225@storefull-3237.bay.webtv.net>... I just came back from shopping and I thought I was going to faint. I have n oticed that in the last few years I cant bear anything over 80. Today is 91 and I feel wilted. Does anyone else contribute being hotter to the diabetes. I am just wondering, I am lying like a pancake. Hope there are no power outtages Loretta ******* I don't know the answer Loretta, but I can't tolerate heat much at all anymore. You have fairly high humidity is NY too don't you? I could do very well in a climate that doesn't ever get over 65 or 70. :-) Cheri > I don't know the answer Loretta, but I can't tolerate heat much at all > anymore. You have fairly high humidity is NY too don't you? I could do > very well in a climate that doesn't ever get over 65 or 70. :-) Try Alameda, CA. It's pretty much 70 year round. Might have a week or two during the summer where it gets hotter. Bedding plants there grow like trees or bushes. Julie Bove wrote in message ... >> I don't know the answer Loretta, but I can't tolerate heat much at all >> anymore. You have fairly high humidity is NY too don't you? I could do [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >during the summer where it gets hotter. Bedding plants there grow like >trees or bushes. I'm not that desperate for cooler weather Julie. Have you been to Alameda/Oakland lately? I'm thinking more of the Oregon Coast. :-) Cheri > I'm not that desperate for cooler weather Julie. Have you been to > Alameda/Oakland lately? I'm thinking more of the Oregon Coast. :-) Moved from Alameda when Angela was 4. That would be 5 years ago. Hated living there. The only thing it had going for it was the weather. Too expensive. Too crowded. And I couldn't find a decent Dr. anywhere. The Dr. I had was in Oakland. One good thing for her was that we lived in military housing and there were plenty of kids around for her to play with. Of course she was younger then and it might not be that way now. Here, there are plenty of kids who go to daycare. That seems to be pretty common in school aged kids no matter where we've lived. I happen to like Coos Bay or Astoria, Oregon. At least to visit. Might not feel the same way if I lived there. And I like the Seattle area most of the time. Can't complain too much. We've had some unseasonably hot and cold weather but most of the time it's fine and dandy. It's expensive here too, but we never lack for anything to do. Pretty much anything I might want can be had within two hours of where I live. Sounds good to me Julie, where is that located near Loretta Cheri, I am with you about the temps. My daughter wants me to move to Florida and I say never, I cant stand the heat here, I am not going where it is hotter. Loretta > I just came back from shopping and I thought I was going to faint. I > have n oticed that in the last few years I cant bear anything over 80. > Today is 91 and I feel wilted. > > Does anyone else contribute being hotter to the diabetes. Thermoregulation (temperature regulation) is impaired with the increased peripheral vascular resistance commonly associated with type-2 diabetes. This results in an intolerance of temperature deviations away from the moderate either too cold or too hot. Would suggest you inform your doctor about your symptom of "going to faint" (near-syncope). It is possible s/he will want to refer you to consult with a cardiologist to exclude a cardiovascular reason for the near-syncope. Be hungry... be healthy... be blessed: http://HeartMDPhD.com/PressRelease Prayerfully in Jesus' awesome love, Andrew <>< -- Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD Cardiologist > just came back from shopping and I thought I was going to faint. I > have n oticed that in the last few years I cant bear anything over 80. > Today is 91 and I feel wilted. > > Does anyone else contribute being hotter to the diabetes. I am just > wondering, I am lying like a pancake. Hope there are no power outtages Hi Loretta, I don't know about whether it feels hotter, but the effect you feel may be partly due to the fact that diabetes does interfere with the mechanisms of our overall biological energy production..... Maybe be you feel the heat more because it makes you feel literally weaker. Just a supposition.... I know I feel low points during the day in the heat. Will, T2 Thanks Will for your input Loretta >I don't know about whether it feels hotter, but the effect you feel may be >partly due to the fact that diabetes does interfere with the mechanisms of [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Will, T2 After I made this post, I saw Susan's reply about the endocrine system and adrenal response... That makes a lot of sense, as I think about it. Will, T2 >>I don't know about whether it feels hotter, but the effect you feel may be >>partly due to the fact that diabetes does interfere with the mechanisms of [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > and adrenal response... That makes a lot of sense, as I think about > it. I've gotten a lot better with temperature extremes. When my thyroid was out of whack it was just horrid. I dressed in lightweight cotton clothing and kept blankets in every room of my house and even in my vehicle. A simple quick trip to the drugstore for meds was enough to leave me drenched in sweat. And once I got overheated, it could take hours to cool off again. By the same token, sitting in the park in the shade could be enough to give me a bad chill and then I'd need the blankets. My body seemed to like the range of about 65 to 70 and any deviation one way or the other left me miserable. My house is currently 79.4. It's 71 outside. Annoying that my house gets that much warmer than it is outside and it just doesn't cool down. Haven't figured out why that is. I thought it was too well insulated, but my friend who lives in a neighboring community and has an older house with bad insulation says her house does the same thing. At any rate, I am not suffering. I do feel a bit warmer than I'd like to be, but I am not sweating. When my thyroid was out of whack, I would be running to the freezer to stick my head in and guzzling cold liquids. > > just came back from shopping and I thought I was going to faint. I > > have n oticed that in the last few years I cant bear anything over 80. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > I know I feel low points during the day in the heat. Are you taking any other medications? Blood pressure medication, anything else that will affect your fluid and hydration levels? And I'm stunned. While Chung over-diagnosed, and left out simpler possibilities like dehydration, being short of salt in hot climaes, or simply getting older, he actually said something useful about thermo- regulation problems. This summer is not as bad as last summer. Last summer, I was not dx yet, and my doc said my BG was in the 300-500s for sure. This summer, I can be out in the heat, but not for long. Yesterday, it was about 100 degrees here with very high humidity. I shopped a little while, and had to come home and lay down. The heat totally drained me. Looking back to last summer though, I couldn't be out if it was higher than 70 degrees and when it was winter and snowing with about 30 degrees, I was outside in shorts barefoot in the snow trying to cool down...that is the truth. I still can't take the heat, but it definitely is better than before I was dx and got more stable BG. Kris >I just came back from shopping and I thought I was going to faint. I > have n oticed that in the last few years I cant bear anything over 80. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Loretta I get pretty wasted when I work outside in the heat. It never occured to me to attribute that to diabetes. I wonder. John Everyone, I have an appointment next week with the endo. This subject will be my first question. Thank you for all your responses. Loretta Loretta Eisenberg wrote in message <16776-46B32A9C-1383@storefull-3231.bay.webtv.net>... Everyone, I have an appointment next week with the endo. This subject will be my first question. Thank you for all your responses. Loretta I'll be interested in hearing what he says. Cheri I exhort 'the great computer in the sky' to be at your side to comfort you and to keep you well. "Loretta Eisenberg" <sassybklynlady@webtv.net> a écrit ... > Everyone, I have an appointment next week with the endo. This subject > will be my first question. > > Thank you for all your responses. > > Loretta Thank you Frank, I appreciate it, It is just my three month checkup and hopefully all is well Loretta I meant it ... "Loretta Eisenberg" <sassybklynlady@webtv.net> a écrit ... > Thank you Frank, I appreciate it, It is just my three month checkup and > hopefully all is well > > Loretta >I just came back from shopping and I thought I was going to faint. I > have n oticed that in the last few years I cant bear anything over 80. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Loretta Loretta my wife is always hot and I am always cold. Go figure. Charlie > I just came back from shopping and I thought I was going to faint. I > have n oticed that in the last few years I cant bear anything over 80. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Loretta I was very heat intolerant when my BG was running high from my infection. Now that I'm back in a better range (with low doses of insulin) I'm not noticing it as much. (still very hot here, and I still get hot and sweaty at work, wearing my personal protective gear (gown, mask gloves gogles) while taking care of the animals in very warm rooms... Emily |
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