Hey. What a great forum, I wonder whether any of you can tell me from your experiences whether what I am suffering from sounds like Diabetes? I feel a bit guilty going to my doctor because he is treating for 2 other things and a 3rd thing might look a bit like the boy that cried wolf.
I am female,32, about 3 stone overweight, carry my weight around my middle - if this info helps.
During any given week I have what I call 2x crashes. These happen are sudden and go from nothing to full symptoms within 3 minutes or so. These particularly happen if I haven't eaten for 3 hours or so. It starts with my limbs feel limp and moving them feels like a great effort, I feel light-headed and my reactions are slow (it's like the feeling you get when you are going under general anaesthetic, but a more extended feeling of drunkness) I start to feel really fatigued and want to sleep, if I am standing up I usually feel sick, but never actually am, I feel drunk or very hungover, my temperature goes hot but I feel cold. This is all within a matter of 5 minutes. The only thing that I found that brings me out of this is a can of fizzy drink and a bar of chocolate. Within 5 minutes I am back to normal. I don't take caffeine at all normally so I know it isn't caffeine cold turkey, I don't do drugs or drink alcohol.
I have chronic endometriosis and get ill every month, however, I take the pill 3 months in a row, on docs orders, I still get all symptoms except the bleed and the pain. The crashes happen twice a day during the time I would menstruate, as fatigue is one of the main symptoms of the endo, particularly at this time, my doctor just claims its chronic fatigue. But he doesn't see me when I have an episode and its not like I can bring one on and race to the docs for him to see me in that state.
Something is definitely happening but when I asked the doc about diabetes as I don't have the peeing frequently symptom, he says it isn't that.
I am not asking for a diagnosis but, can anyone explain what a diabetic attack feels like?
Much appreciated
I am female,32, about 3 stone overweight, carry my weight around my middle - if this info helps.
During any given week I have what I call 2x crashes. These happen are sudden and go from nothing to full symptoms within 3 minutes or so. These particularly happen if I haven't eaten for 3 hours or so. It starts with my limbs feel limp and moving them feels like a great effort, I feel light-headed and my reactions are slow (it's like the feeling you get when you are going under general anaesthetic, but a more extended feeling of drunkness) I start to feel really fatigued and want to sleep, if I am standing up I usually feel sick, but never actually am, I feel drunk or very hungover, my temperature goes hot but I feel cold. This is all within a matter of 5 minutes. The only thing that I found that brings me out of this is a can of fizzy drink and a bar of chocolate. Within 5 minutes I am back to normal. I don't take caffeine at all normally so I know it isn't caffeine cold turkey, I don't do drugs or drink alcohol.
I have chronic endometriosis and get ill every month, however, I take the pill 3 months in a row, on docs orders, I still get all symptoms except the bleed and the pain. The crashes happen twice a day during the time I would menstruate, as fatigue is one of the main symptoms of the endo, particularly at this time, my doctor just claims its chronic fatigue. But he doesn't see me when I have an episode and its not like I can bring one on and race to the docs for him to see me in that state.
Something is definitely happening but when I asked the doc about diabetes as I don't have the peeing frequently symptom, he says it isn't that.
I am not asking for a diagnosis but, can anyone explain what a diabetic attack feels like?
Much appreciated