Why do people with diabetes feel more heat?

Hello everyone!

Maybe you have noticed (I mean those who have diabetes) in these heat days, you may feel more intensely high temperatures.You are not alone in this, it is a common effect due to the peculiarities of our body and the way it manages insulin and thermal regulation.

Damage to nerve and blood vessels that sometimes accompanies diabetes can alter the function of our sweat glands.This means that we cannot cool our bodies as efficiently as someone without diabetes, putting ourselves at a greater risk of suffering a heat stroke or complications with our insulin.

And did you know that we dehydrate faster?

If we do not drink enough liquids, our blood sugar levels can increase, and high sugar levels mean that we will need to urinate more often.

In addition, heat can make insulin absorb faster, which can sometimes lead to hypoglycemia.

So what can we do?

Here are some suggestions that I personally find useful:

- Drink a lot of water, and avoid alcoholic beverages, with caffeine or sugary.
- Regularly check our blood sugar levels.
- Opt for light and baggy clothes.
- Protect our heat medications, especially insulin.
- Stay in fresh or heated spaces as much as possible.

I hope these tips help us to take the days of very hot.

Do you have any strategy or advice that you would like to share?

Take care of you and keep you fresh.

A hug to all.

I have broken the thermostat since I am diabetic.Before I was cold at all hours, and now I am Doña Calores.

I thought it only happened to me and I didn't blame my diabetes.This last summer of 2023 for me has been the worst and that there has been no winter I have had a really bad time and that I live in the north.I fear this 2024 the weather as it will come.Thanks @Fer for your knowledge ...

First news that I have, the opposite happens to me, I am very cold!

It happens to me as @Pyrri de Natural I am already being hot immediately, then I think that the 26 years already of diabetes, or the age (you see) add a plus of "hot" ... hahaha

@Vero83 Can it be that you are still very young, or that you don't have been with diabetes so much time?

The heats came to me with menopause, diabetes has not added anything new.
I walked in shorts from April to October.Sometimes I cross people with feathers 🤣🤣 (which I don't see normally at 18/20 degrees)

It would be easier to say what works well for us and does not spoil for diabetes.

Everything is good news .../

I am very, very hot, extremely hot.Since I am diabetic I remain extremely hot.In summer I can't even put a cream on my face, and I don't say makeup ... it happened really badly with heat.

I train all year at the Gym in short underpants.No mesh, they give me more than heat, anguish.
And I have said panties because it has to be a loaf pants, that the air circulates.

It happens to me the same!
Hahaha, people tell me that with the few "chichas" that I have, they don't understand how I can't go cold by going shortly almost all year, hahahaha.
I do mtb and I can spend almost all year riding with my shorts.
Well nothing, natural heating that we have incorporated 😅

fer said:
happens to me as @pyrri de Natural I am already heat immediately, then I think that the 26 years already of diabetes, or the age (you see)They add a plus of "hot" ... hahaha

@Vero83 Could it be that you are still very young, or, that you do not have been with diabetes so much time?

Hi Fer I am 40 years old, I am young, but not so much and I have almost 32 with diabetes ...

I live in the Guadalquivir Valley.Imagine in summer.I have never had a special problem with heat.Maybe I get worse with the cold.

I have not noticed that change.I badly tolerate the mediterranean wet heat and in winter I am not cold.At least really does, what does not usually happen

What I tolerate badly, very bad, is the cold.The heat is usually carried well, it has to be very hot (or storm embarrassment, I don't care about the temperature) to get it wrong.I always say that it is not hot if there is no 40ºC in the shadow ...

I am from Malaga, I have raised on a last floor without air conditioning.I endure the heat very well ... the cold is my Achilles heel.

Hello, I have been with diabetes for 40 years and my thermostat still works is the first time I hear that I would say that I am cold.And I also drink.I don't know where you have taken that information.

I guarantee the study.
Winter, spring and autumn, "well.
But lately these summers ... change me to humor.
It is one thing to be hot, and endure like all heat waves ... and another thing is that I have come to have an anxious to leave home because I can't live without air ... it can be exaggerated, I admit it, but it isI can't endure it and of course the levels fired ...
I blame it for diabetes, although it is true that my thyroid is not going well ... I am a slim of virtues hear!

Frankly, I have been diabetic for more than 50 years and I have never felt that I had more or less heat than the people around my environment.

I don't know if this type of threads are of some help, but it seems to me not.

I can less with heat every year.I don't know if it will be for diabetes, for age or because I am in quite low shape.

But this summer I am having a very bad time.

I can be cold, can it be some nervous affectation?