Can a person fake diabetes?!
Question: To the point where their blood sugar soars over 500, and they take insulin to bring it down, but are not really diabetic? They inject themselves with something or take something......?
Answers: To the point where their blood sugar soars over 500, and they take insulin to bring it down, but are not really diabetic? They inject themselves with something or take something......?
Negative, someone can't fake being a diabetic your body produces insulin that you need and a diabetic doesn't produce the insulin that they need. This is a disease and anyone who would want to fake it, is completely a weirdo.
why would a person ever want to do that would make a better question...
Well, on the TV show Prison Break, one of the lead characters took pills that made his blood sugar go up, so he could fake diabetes. Can you beleive what you see on TV? No. TV is entertainment, not reality. Even reality shows are not real, they are staged.
I do know that certain medications can raise your blood sugar, but probably not that much and it would be very dangerous to do. Some medications can induce diabetes in some people, but it takes time to happen and they would have a pretty hard time getting access to these drugs legally.
It is highly unlikely that anyone would take the very real risks of doing this just to get attention.
If your blood sugar soars over 500, something is wrong regardless of
what you ate or drank, Unless it is some weird substance I do not
know of. In the normal person, regardless of how much food or drink
you consume, your blood sugar stays in a normal range. If someone
has a blood sugar over 500, they need to get diagnosis, and treatment.
If someone has insulin ordered by a doctor, they have diabetes--.
Insulin dependent diabetes. They may have other conditions that go
with it. Many illnesses can be contributed to, or attributed to diabetes.
It is not a laughing matter, it is a deadly serious matter.
An Oral glucose tolerance test is the best means to initially diagnose
a blood sugar problem, it tells you what is going on with large doses
of glucose in your system and how your body is processing glucose.
It is time consuming, it takes some effort, some blood draws. However,
it gives you the peaks and lows, not just the averages. It will tell
you specifically your pancreas is not working right. As I said, it has
to be ordered by a doctor, and it is time consuming and probably
expensive. If you have no insurance, they probably are not going to
do it.
Averages are
ok for diagnosed diabetics who are trying to control, or are controlling
their diabetes with insulin, oral meds, or diet and exercise. There is
a blood test that will give a percentage average for a long time back
on established diabetics, but it does not give the peaks and lows.
Juvenile onset diabetes usually is corrected with insulin. People who
take insulin, most often developed it as a child. Adult onset is more
often controlled with oral meds, pills , diet and exercise.Sometimes
they require insulin also. Some take a combination. There are new
insulins which work much better than the old. Now they often call adult onset metabolic syndrome because there are many conditions with it.
They are also called Class I , and Class II diabetes. The problem
with adult onset, is many times they do not know they have it at all.
they get into a vicious circle. You get hungry when your blood sugar
is high, you get hungry when it is low. So,you eat. Gain weight,
get higher sugar. They need to get a toe hold some way, get onto
a proper diet, and exercise plan. If they could get, or were given
a specific diagnosis, to know they have this terrible disease, it
might give them the momentum or the motivation to do something. Knowing you have a disease, and are not just hungry all the time
and that you can get it under control, would be motivation.
Also, knowing the horrible results of untreated diabetes would
be a motivation.Weight loss, I don't mean getting
skinny, but normalizing weight, eating right, &exercise sometimes
will take care of the problem as long as they stay on the regimen.
It is hard. I said all that to say this, it would be very difficult, if
not impossible to fake diabetes. If you do not have high blood sugar,
or diabetes, and you take insulin, you would go into a coma
or get very sick. and possibly die.
No one in their right mind is going to risk this. No one wants diabetes.
It is a killer. It affects your heart, kidneys, eyes, nervous system,
circulatory system. Treated--- people can live long healthy lives.
Possible? Not to my knowledge. If you can achieve blood sugars over 500, something is seriously wrong with your pancreas. In a normal, healthy person the pancreas would immediately react to correct an increase of ingested sugar.
I think it is you that has the problem.