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What Causes Excessive Weight Loss While Suffering From Diabetes?
my sister has loss so much weight in the last 8 years. she is down to 90 lbs. she eats all the time . she is 56 years old. she has her check ups. blood tests have not shown anything wrong. they said her blood sugar is high and they could not get a reading on her cholestoral.
Tue, 2 Jan 2018
hello,
i can understand your concern. Type 1 diabetes is associated with weight loss.
You have not mentioned sugar levels of your sister.
kindly let us know the medications that she has been taking for diabetes.
She will have to start insulin for the control of the sugar levels.
Kindly get the following tests too Complete blood picture to check for anemia, urine for micro albumin,urea and creatinine for kidney function and lipid profile and ecg.
based on the tests appropriate medications can be started.
Hope i have answered your query.
Thanks for choosing HCM
i can understand your concern. Type 1 diabetes is associated with weight loss.
You have not mentioned sugar levels of your sister.
kindly let us know the medications that she has been taking for diabetes.
She will have to start insulin for the control of the sugar levels.
Kindly get the following tests too Complete blood picture to check for anemia, urine for micro albumin,urea and creatinine for kidney function and lipid profile and ecg.
based on the tests appropriate medications can be started.
Hope i have answered your query.
Thanks for choosing HCM
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