Does diabetes target the lungs?

[mazea]

I was wondering if diabetes targeted the lungs like other organs? Why does it cause me to become breathless when my blood sugar is high at 10.5? Does anyone else get breathless and have rapid breathing?when they have spikes of about 10mmol?

[viranth]

I was wondering if diabetes targeted the lungs like other organs? Why does it cause me to become breathless when my blood sugar is high at 10.5? Does anyone else get breathless and have rapid breathing?when they have spikes of about 10mmol?

I don't know about the lungs, but they do have small blood vessels, so I suppose with poor management...

I get real relaxed/dizzy-ish with high BG, sort of exhausted but not winded or breathless.

[Jonathan_R]

Diabetes does not directly target the lungs. Diabetes doesn't constrict the lungs. Here is what it does. You'll need to go to the cellular level. Remember that oxygen is carried by the blood. < when your blood sugar is high, your blood becomes thick like, syrup, honey and molases, depending on how high. When your blood becomes thick, it doesn't travel through the body as well, which means your body doesn't get the oxygen it needs, or the nutrients. This is also how neuropathy happens, as well as loss of eye sight, and renal failure, heart attacks, and many other complications in regards to diabetes.

Shallow and rapid breating is also a sign of diabetic ketoacidosis. Blood sugar that high, needs medical attention, like the Emergency room. Especially when accompanied by those symptoms.

[foxl]

Shallow and rapid breating is also a sign of diabetic ketoacidosis. Blood sugar that high, needs medical attention, like the Emergency room. Especially when accompanied by those symptoms.

I hope you have by now done this.

[patricia52]

I have also notice that when my insulin resistance is really bad, I get tired more quickly(short of breath and increased heart rate because my muscle are not getting enough food (sugar) to carry out their functions.

[dbaratta]

I was wondering if diabetes targeted the lungs like other organs? Why does it cause me to become breathless when my blood sugar is high at 10.5? Does anyone else get breathless and have rapid breathing?when they have spikes of about 10mmol?

I get that also, but I think it is because your heart is laboring when you are in a state like that. I am not positive on this but I know that my heart is the big thing for me and I lose my breath because of it. I have not heard about the lungs being effected by diabetes but anything is possible.:confused:

[Jonathan_R]

I hope you have by now done this.

I don't understand. I don't have rapid shallow breathing. And I am getting better control of my sugars.

[foxl]

I don't understand. I don't have rapid shallow breathing. And I am getting better control of my sugars.


Was agreeing with you! OP needs to be seen and soon for DKA.

[Jonathan_R]

Was agreeing with you! OP needs to be seen and soon for DKA.

Ah. Ok. Yes, they do. I hope they did. Sorry for the confusion, I just woke up half an hour ago.

[foxl]

Ah. Ok. Yes, they do. I hope they did. Sorry for the confusion, I just woke up half an hour ago.

S'okay -- if you select quote, it only quotes the poster's quote ... not who THEY were quoting ...

[mazea]

Would you even get ketoacidosis even for random spikes 10mmol for 2 hours? I have a good HBAC1 (4.8) except the last week of high's where I think my HBAC1 would have been 7.8. that haven't been over 11mmol. I will get a ketoacidois blood strip anyway to find out so thanks for that idea.

I'm getting an asmtha check on Monday at the doctors as it seems asmtha can start again in pregnancy. I was diagnosed with asmtha as a teenager but it went away.

[xMenace]

Would you even get ketoacidosis even for random spikes 10mmol for 2 hours? I have a good HBAC1 (4.8) except the last week of high's where I think my HBAC1 would have been 7.8. that haven't been over 11mmol. I will get a ketoacidois blood strip anyway to find out so thanks for that idea.

I'm getting an asmtha check on Monday at the doctors as it seems asmtha can start again in pregnancy. I was diagnosed with asmtha as a teenager but it went away.

No. That's just a minor blip.

[mazea]

No. That's just a minor blip.
oh good.

I feel like vomiting today so I think I have a flu, not the cold. Having the flu would explain why why I have had trouble breathing. I rang up my anenatal clinic and the nurse recommended going to the doctors today to rule anything sinister out.

I'm just hoping my flu is not swine flu, which has 6 pregnant women in intensive care on ventilators in Australian hospitals at the moment. I won't go to the doctors as it is a 2 1/2 hour wait in the waiting room before you go in. And it is advised for pregnant women to avoid gatherings in Australia at the moment and I could pick up swine flu there. (My doctors is a mega doctor centre with 50 patients at a time in the waiting room with no appointments) Swine flu is going through Australia quite a lot at the moment.

[mazea]

Went for an asthma test today. Lung capacity was 20%reduced so I was put on a ventilin. It seemed I had mild asthma, plus the flu plus the baby pushing up on my diaphram. I am very happy now.:)

[genie86333]

Good to hear! Hope you & baby are feeling ok now!