Hi, hope this is ok to post here. Didn’t know where else to turn to ask these questions!
I have no diagnosis of diabetes but I’m going to discuss with my gp tomoro about whether I need to be tested for it.
I have no idea if I’m being paranoid and this is something else (which of course it could be), but my mum has been telling me for a while to get tested and I’ve dismissed it. Until today - when I became really unwell!
Basically, for a long time now I’ve been having really bad night sweats - I literally wake up soaked everywhere! And (sorry for tmi) but the smell is really edited and sickly! Spoke to doc about it over a year ago and put it down to meds that I’m on (venaflaxine), they told me to take them in morning instead of night, and put me on amitriptyline about 6 months ago.
It hasn’t improved at all.
I’m constantly exhausted - but have fibromyalgia so again, put that down to that! But my fibro is fairly well managed but last few weeks I’ve been getting more exhausted.
I need the toilet at night constantly! Hate going to bed as it takes me hours before I can try and nod off as I’m always having to get up and run to the loo! And when I do nod off - I wake up needing to go again! Argh!
Anyway, last couple of weeks I’ve had something new added in - can only describe them as ‘funny turns’ 1 I can be completely fine and the next min I crash - complete exhaustion where it’s tiring just to try and talk, light headedness and and intense need to sleep right there and then. I feel sick and feel like I’m going to pass out. It’s happened a few times now and been meaning to see doc as thought maybe I was having panic attacks again (even though I don’t know why I’d be having them now), but today was the worst out of them all.
I was sitting down when it came over me again - my heart rate was thru the roof, I felt confused, my mouth went extremely dry - like the driest it’s ever been! I felt really thirsty, tired and disoriented. It eased a bit when I laid down, but got worse when I tried to get up. But even lying down I felt like I wasn’t going to be able to stay awake. I tried to ring my docs but couldn’t get thru. Rang 111 and they wanted me to go to a&e. I told them I would - but I didn’t. I had a few biscuits and sipped on water and fell asleep.
I felt a lot better when I woke but have just felt really exhausted and sluggish all day. It’s horrible.
anyway, I know this could all be a number of things - but I have this nagging in my head from my mother now saying about asking to be checked out for diabetes!
I don’t want to look stupid asking the doc - but would anyone say it’s a reasonable question with the above symptoms that are getting worse and not better? when I looked at the symptoms on the website here it meantiones a lot of them but also said weight loss - I haven’t lost weight, in fact I’m overweight and struggling to lose any at all!
I have no diagnosis of diabetes but I’m going to discuss with my gp tomoro about whether I need to be tested for it.
I have no idea if I’m being paranoid and this is something else (which of course it could be), but my mum has been telling me for a while to get tested and I’ve dismissed it. Until today - when I became really unwell!
Basically, for a long time now I’ve been having really bad night sweats - I literally wake up soaked everywhere! And (sorry for tmi) but the smell is really edited and sickly! Spoke to doc about it over a year ago and put it down to meds that I’m on (venaflaxine), they told me to take them in morning instead of night, and put me on amitriptyline about 6 months ago.
It hasn’t improved at all.
I’m constantly exhausted - but have fibromyalgia so again, put that down to that! But my fibro is fairly well managed but last few weeks I’ve been getting more exhausted.
I need the toilet at night constantly! Hate going to bed as it takes me hours before I can try and nod off as I’m always having to get up and run to the loo! And when I do nod off - I wake up needing to go again! Argh!
Anyway, last couple of weeks I’ve had something new added in - can only describe them as ‘funny turns’ 1 I can be completely fine and the next min I crash - complete exhaustion where it’s tiring just to try and talk, light headedness and and intense need to sleep right there and then. I feel sick and feel like I’m going to pass out. It’s happened a few times now and been meaning to see doc as thought maybe I was having panic attacks again (even though I don’t know why I’d be having them now), but today was the worst out of them all.
I was sitting down when it came over me again - my heart rate was thru the roof, I felt confused, my mouth went extremely dry - like the driest it’s ever been! I felt really thirsty, tired and disoriented. It eased a bit when I laid down, but got worse when I tried to get up. But even lying down I felt like I wasn’t going to be able to stay awake. I tried to ring my docs but couldn’t get thru. Rang 111 and they wanted me to go to a&e. I told them I would - but I didn’t. I had a few biscuits and sipped on water and fell asleep.
I felt a lot better when I woke but have just felt really exhausted and sluggish all day. It’s horrible.
anyway, I know this could all be a number of things - but I have this nagging in my head from my mother now saying about asking to be checked out for diabetes!
I don’t want to look stupid asking the doc - but would anyone say it’s a reasonable question with the above symptoms that are getting worse and not better? when I looked at the symptoms on the website here it meantiones a lot of them but also said weight loss - I haven’t lost weight, in fact I’m overweight and struggling to lose any at all!
