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05-19-2005, 12:50 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Md
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| | | Blood bank
Would going to the blood bank have any effect on my bloodsugar. I'm on oral medications. |
05-19-2005, 01:36 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Manassas, in the Old Dominion
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| | | Mucho debate about this one: Some blood banks won't take a diabetic's blood, but I believe the ARC has stated that if you are on your care regimen with no changes to meds in the last 60 days, you can donate.
Now, how will it affect your blood glucose? Everyone is different, so monitor monitor monitor. I would think removing some blood would actually make your sugars go up, because you would basically be dehydrating yourself, right (I'm asking)?
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05-19-2005, 01:40 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
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prestonjes
Would going to the blood bank have any effect on my bloodsugar. I'm on oral medications.
| I've been told by several Drs.( 4, I think) that I shouoldn't bother going to the blood bank, and they told me to take Donor off my driver's license.
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05-19-2005, 01:46 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 535
| | | I also have Hemachromatosis (it actually triggered my diabetes) and when they take me down a pint (that is the treatment for HH) my sugars do spike for around 24 hours.
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05-19-2005, 02:22 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Miami, Fl
Posts: 3,121
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05-19-2005, 04:09 PM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Nova Scotia
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| | | In Canada, if you are on oral meds you can donate but once you are on insulin you aren't allowed to anymore. I imagine it's the same for organ donations but I haven't thaugh of that, guess I should remove mine. |
05-24-2005, 07:07 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
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| | Quote:
liz32
In Canada, if you are on oral meds you can donate but once you are on insulin you aren't allowed to anymore. I imagine it's the same for organ donations but I haven't thaugh of that, guess I should remove mine.
| DON'T do it liz32, get a Dr. to remove your organs for you. LOL
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