COVID seems to be causing diabetes in some people!

[thewayne]

Yeah, we need more weirdness.

Apparently COVID infections are producing a form of diabetes in some people that is possibly transient. In some cases it starts as Type 1 then becomes Type 2. Very weird. They've started an anonymized repository called CoviDiab to build a better knowledgebase of what's going on and to try to find out is it the disease, or might it be the disease plus drugs being used in treatment, or just WTF.

Strange days indeed.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-global-data-effort-probes-whether-covid-causes-diabetes/

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[thewayne]

Every day: Morning: Nebulize budesonide and albuterol, about 1 hour Neilmed Sinus Rinse Three nasal sprays

Night: Nebulize budesonide and albuterol, about 1 hour Neilmed Sinus Rinse Two nasal sprays

Two Allegra plus something prescription in the morning. Plus my rescue inhaler as needed as a preventative, I might need it once or twice a year for actual labored breathing.

Literally every day, 2-3 hours of my waking life holding a nebulizer up to my face, not able to do a heck of a lot else while doing so. Fortunately I found something called an Omron silent vibrating mesh nebulizer, so I don’t have that obnoxious noisy air compressor further destroying my hearing daily. About all I can do while nebulizing is surf the web, watch TV, or play Lord of the Rings Online.

While asthma is a potential life-threatening problem, for me it’s more out of concern for my immune disorder. Try to keep my lungs as disaster-free as possible to prevent nastiness from growing in them.

[graydon]

Disaster-free lungs is an excellent plan!

There's treatment for asthma, but it's nigh-all "reverse the symptoms" and highly empirical. (and it took a long time for the empiricism to get where it is now.) There isn't any "we know the biological cause" or "can identify risk factors" or "we think we know the mechanism". Kinda like the difference between cancer and Parkinson's; despite a lot of empiricism and complication, cancer is a set of known mechanisms while Parkinson's is a complete bafflement.

Several million people with debilitating conditions about which the science of medicine experiences complete bafflement will probably lead to advances, given time. But it's likely to be really messy getting there.