Saturday, March 31, 2007
I know this is a very strange question...but, here goes........I was wondering if anyone with diabetes noticed rapid growth of black mold in the toilet even when cleaned regularly? I noticed this in one toilet and not the other. At first I Thought it was teenager bad housekeeping skills. I began cleaning it myself regularly only to find very rapid return mold growth (only in the one toilet the teenager uses and not the other one). I have seen this same mold in the toilet of another family members house who may have diabetes. I wonder if this is associated with diabetes because this teenager has sweaty palms, urinates frequently, (mostly after school and in the evening), thirsty, weight gain, and sometimes has a very fruity smelling breath, but when checked by the doctor has been "within the limits" (althought at the edges)? Has anyone had the same observation about the mold? Or more importantly...Has anyone ever frequently tested within the acceptable ranges repeatedly yet still been diagnosed with diabetes or low blood sugar?
I DON'T EVEN THINK TWICE ABOUT IT JUST CLEAN IT DAILY.
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I've got the same problem as everyone else but here's the thing that differs. Quite often when I go to the bathroom to urinate I'll sit down to read a magazine. I've noticed that where my urine stream hits the bowl above the water line mold grows from there down into the water line.
Now I want to experiment and get a specimen jar of agar agar (used for medical testing) and set it out and see if it gets the mold at the same rate as the toilet does.
Would be interesting to see if the mold is airborne or if it's internal. I mean if like the one poster stated that to give rats diabetes they inject them with mold. Also I wonder what kind of mold it actually is, since there are many different types. I think some testing needs to be done on this if there are any medical types lurking within the thread.
I noticed black mold very sticky urin all around my toilet for months. I was cleaning my toilets daily and somtimes twice a day, as I could not get control of it. My husband was slowly looking sick and loosing weight. He would not go to the doctor, but I did not associate it with his now diagnosed diabetes. Now that he has it under control the black mold has gone away and there is no more sticky urine around the toilets.
I have noticed black in the WC's my husband uses, and sticky urine on the floor. He WILL NOT see a doctor, he tells me his health is no concern of mine! I suppose this means he is probably diabetic? I have suspected this for some time as he will drink a liter of coca cola, liters of beer, telling me he is thirsty! He will not drink water, he buys the coca and beer himself, I wouldn't buy it for him!
He eats a lot of unhealthy snacks which he also buys for himself, and he thinks he doesn't eat much nowadays, as he leaves part of his healthy meals I prepare for him!
My husband (62 yrs old) just died of complications of uncontrolled diabetes. I had the black mold blob and sticky urine problem in the toilets he used. I used to think it was something with the tolilets (old) or my cleaning. BUt I would scrub them twice per week and the black blobs started forming the next day. I knew my husband was going downhill because of the uncrontrolled diabetes and I know he was in dire shape, but he would not do anything about it. It wasn't until this week (5 weeks after his death) that I noticed that since he died there has been absolutely no black mold blobs in the toilets. The toilets are pristene, even 2 weeks after being cleaned. I suspect all the sugar in his urine as the culprit and now I think I KNOW that what it was. How sad!
hello Diabetes Widow,
Thank you for your reply. What other symptoms did your husband have? Why did uncontrolled diabetes kill him? What actually happened, did he finally just go into a coma?
Sorry about it, shame that quite a few men will not consult doctors!
Take care
hello Diabetes Widow,
Thank you for your reply. What other symptoms did your husband have? Why did uncontrolled diabetes kill him? What actually happened, did he finally just go into a coma?
Sorry about it, shame that quite a few men will not consult doctors!
Take care
He had been controlling his Diabetes with oral meds for many years (10 or more). THen it stopped working and the Dr. referred him to the insulin clinic to do insulin shots. He tried those for a short time and just decided he couldn't do shots. He then stopped going to the Dr completely - including the eye Dr - because he knew that they would all tell him the same thing - we can't help you if you don't help yourself. I wasn't aware how serious his Diabetes was. He stopped treating approximately 2008 or 2009. At first he was checking his blood sugar regularaly, but that probably got to him too (high readings, no ability to control) - so he stopped that too. He got very heavy at first. Then around 2009 he started deteriorating. He was drinking literally gallons of liquid: Diet Coke, Juice, chocolate milk, and some carbonated waters. He started urinating very frequently (which I tossed up to potential protrate). He started eating a lot of sugar for the hypoglycemia that was the roller coaster ride of his sugar. He became very grumpy and then very very nasty (hypo probably). By May 2012 he had lost 100 lbs, lost all his hair, was half blind, gone gray suddenly, and had neuropathy and bluish feet/legs. I tried to convince him to do something about it, but he wouldn't. He knew he was dying. At the end (Aug - Dec 2012) he was sleeping all day (he had retired in May), was overly sensitive to any touch and was in rough shape. The black mold in the toilets started about 2009 and progressed to a huge amount after he retired (he used our bathrooms at home fulltime at that point). I noticed towards the end that he was holding his chest every once in a while. The ER said he died of a coronary related to uncontrolled diabetes. Uncontrolled diabetes affects all your organs, most signiicantly the heart and kidneys. He also had high cholesteral and high blood pressure which he couldn't control because he wouldn't go to the Dr for the diabetes. Very sad situation. We had lost both our adult daughters to car crashes in 2000 and 2007. I lost both my mother and father and so did he. His father was diabetic (controlled!), and he died in his late 80s, but he had deteriorated and became grumpy, and all the same things as my husband, but at a muh later age. I think my husband didn't want to go down that path and had become depressed. The grief counselor I went to said it sounded like "passive suicide"...........and everything I've found points to the fact that he knew he was dying soon. You can't make people do things they don't want to do. I''m just devastated over this. But life goes on, like it or not. Hope things are good for you and yours.
Hello, Thank you very much for writing back to me. It give me clues as to the state of his health, things to look out for, maybe eventually I can persuade him to do something about it, see a doctor. He is retiring in 2 months. He is already a very grumpy person. I know if he saw a doctor and was given medication, he'd never take it more than a couple of days, he was given blood pressure tablets in 1997, he didn't even finish the packet and never went to a doctor again! He had only gone then because he had to have a medical as we were moving, for the mortgage on a house.
Seems to me that there a lot of men who won't take care of their health, bury their heads in the sand!
I'm so sorry to hear about your losses, that of course contributed to your husband's depression.
As you say, life goes on, I hope that you have some happy times now and in the future, you have to make the best of the life you have whatever has happened.
Take care, good luck
xxx