Ravenous mouth hunger after meals?

[thesmileyone]

Having something odd go on that google and reddit etc claim is a sign of diabetes...

When I eat meals I get hungry both towards the end of a big meal, or right after a small meal. Doesn't seem to matter if the meal is protein, fat or carbs or a mix of all of them. Seems to happen less if it's just carbs (like crisps). I thought it was hypoglycemia so I went out and bought another blood testing kit (accuchek fastclix is so much easier than traditional lances!) and my blood sugar 2 hours after eating is 6.5..

My fasted overnight blood glucose is around 6.0.

Oddly I fast 16 hours a day and I'm not hungry at all until the tail end of that fast and it's more the usual sign of hunger; gut hunger. The hunger I'm experiencing post prandial is more mouth hunger, literally salivating.

Quite confused. 300lb so overweight (though 6'8 so handle it well), only lose weight during caloric deficit, eating healthy, making all my meals etc. Had hb1ac 6 months ago and docs never phoned me about it which apparently means on the NHS that there's nothing to worry about. I seem to absorb minerals just fine so it's not leaky gut or anything.

Only other side effect is if I drink say 250ml of water I will pee it out half an hour later. But I've always required far less water than NHS guidelines. Pee colour is fine. Have ordered urine sticks to check for protein.

Any ideas? Thanks

Edit: I guess it's Hyperinsulinemia with normal blood glucose?

 

[Mark Rawlinson]

can you ask you DN or Dr they can do all these test for nothing

 

[KennyA]

If I've understood what you've said, you're not diabetic but concerned you might be?

Google and Reddit are not the best or most reliable sources. There is good information to be found, but it's usually buried in noise.

Your BG measures after food need to be set alongside a reading before you ate, and include what you ate, to be more meaningful. I would also strongly recommend finding out what your HbA1c actually was. My practice did not tell me over a period of nine years that my BG was out of normal range until it tripped the "automatic T2 diagnosis" level. That's best avoided, particularly if you're already having symptoms. So not being told means you can assume nothing.

When you say "eating healthy" what do you mean by that? Many of us (me included) ate the recommended high-carb low-fat diet, and became diabetic. Switching to a high fat and next to no carb diet sorted my BGs out in four months. Weight loss (~90lb) followed.

 

[thesmileyone]

It's an odd one this.

I can smell sugar in my urine, it smells like cake batter. But then I bought seimens urine strips and there's no glucose, a slight trace of protein, and no ketones in my urine. That slight trace has been like that when I last used those strips some 10 years ago. How can I smell sugar and there be no glucose?

And I bought a blood meter and it was around 6.9 mmol last week, a week of healthy eating later and I'm hovering around 6.5, after 16 hours fasted. So it's dropped which is great.

But tonight I'm hungry again and sweating a bit and a little spaced out, tested my blood and I'm 4.9mmol. Google says this is "normal". If my usual fasting blood sugar is mid 6 then how is 5 normal? Having said that I and my family seem to have a mild dose of something viral lately. Which causes dysautomnia.. Because I'm trying to eat healthy and IF I don't dare eat something to make myself less hungry as that ruins the IF.

Doc's here are useless. I had a hb1ac and they said if anything was up they would call me, and never called me. They triage you so if there's nothing seriously wrong then they won't see you.

Eating healthy basically just chicken and veg. If I have carbs or sugars it's part of a meal (like sweet chili sauce in a stir fry). I've noticed I get hungrier at night on the days when I eat less chicken, as in I only have one meal of chicken and veg.

Not lost any weight which is odd. Scales say same weight but clothes fit easier. Odd.