Hi everyone,
I've been feeling quite run-down (tired and achy, can't focus, constantly thirsty, headache, having to get up at night 5-10 times to urinate) for a good year or so now, although my symptoms have worsened in the last couple of months to the point that I'm really worried about how I'll cope at school (starting year 13 (Upper 6th) in a fortnight, so the important A-level year).
Whenever I eat within half an hour I feel very headachy, tired and dizzy, irritable and I find it really hard to think and concentrate, as if I've taken a sleeping pill. This post-prandial fatigue state used to only bother me after something like a panini, a bowl of pasta or fruit juice, so I started a low carbohydrate diet a few months ago in the hope that I'd feel better. But in the last month or so it has started happening every time I eat. Plus even though I've increased my fat and protein intake I've lost a couple of kilograms which has clearly come from muscle, as you can see a difference in my triceps and quads and I feel weaker. I can't win!
I have a GP appointment tomorrow to speak about this, and hopefully they'll be willing to test my thyroid hormones, fasting glucose, c-peptide and HbA1C. Have I missed any other important tests that should be run to exclude the various causes of my symptoms? Does anyone know if a urine test for glucose would be positive if someone has LADA, and whether the result of that could be affected by a low carb diet?
Finally, as alluded to in the title, I was wondering if anyone is aware of whether having been on a low carbohydrate (thus high fat) diet for a few months could result in my HbA1C or fasting glucose result being low enough to not indicate diabetes type 1.5/LADA (I think this most closely matches my symptoms, but please let me know if you think otherwise!) even if I actually have the condition? I'm worried that the low carb diet will mask the signs of an underlying problem and mean that I have to spend longer feeling unwell before we work out why.
Edit: Can type 1.5 diabetes occur in adolescence and can it come on over a period of a year or two, as my symptoms have, without any significant event (e.g. ketoacidosis)? Or am I more likely getting myself anxious unnecessarily? Could I be suffering from reactive hypoglycaemia and if so, how is one tested and treated for that?
I've been feeling quite run-down (tired and achy, can't focus, constantly thirsty, headache, having to get up at night 5-10 times to urinate) for a good year or so now, although my symptoms have worsened in the last couple of months to the point that I'm really worried about how I'll cope at school (starting year 13 (Upper 6th) in a fortnight, so the important A-level year).
Whenever I eat within half an hour I feel very headachy, tired and dizzy, irritable and I find it really hard to think and concentrate, as if I've taken a sleeping pill. This post-prandial fatigue state used to only bother me after something like a panini, a bowl of pasta or fruit juice, so I started a low carbohydrate diet a few months ago in the hope that I'd feel better. But in the last month or so it has started happening every time I eat. Plus even though I've increased my fat and protein intake I've lost a couple of kilograms which has clearly come from muscle, as you can see a difference in my triceps and quads and I feel weaker. I can't win!
I have a GP appointment tomorrow to speak about this, and hopefully they'll be willing to test my thyroid hormones, fasting glucose, c-peptide and HbA1C. Have I missed any other important tests that should be run to exclude the various causes of my symptoms? Does anyone know if a urine test for glucose would be positive if someone has LADA, and whether the result of that could be affected by a low carb diet?
Finally, as alluded to in the title, I was wondering if anyone is aware of whether having been on a low carbohydrate (thus high fat) diet for a few months could result in my HbA1C or fasting glucose result being low enough to not indicate diabetes type 1.5/LADA (I think this most closely matches my symptoms, but please let me know if you think otherwise!) even if I actually have the condition? I'm worried that the low carb diet will mask the signs of an underlying problem and mean that I have to spend longer feeling unwell before we work out why.
Edit: Can type 1.5 diabetes occur in adolescence and can it come on over a period of a year or two, as my symptoms have, without any significant event (e.g. ketoacidosis)? Or am I more likely getting myself anxious unnecessarily? Could I be suffering from reactive hypoglycaemia and if so, how is one tested and treated for that?
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