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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 45091" data-source="post: 294151"><p>Hi yes experience the same symptoms. Been diabetic now for about 22 years type one. Last couple years or so as my sugars started creeping up. I can feel really hungry and even a bit shaky when my sugars are around 12. Its annoying because before when i felt a bit hungry it was a gurantee hypo coming on cold sweat etc weak. Ive explained this to the specialists etc so the predicament iam in is this. Before when i felt shaky and hungry i just used to eat. But after testing a few times its clear that its actually higher most of the time. The docs dont want me to test everytime i feel hungry so what do you do. If i just eat it will send my sugars up higher, if i dont test because of the costs of tests strips then eventually as my sugars improve it could be a hypo which could lead to further problems. So to combat all these issues ive asked for a continues glucose monitor so i can roughly see what my sugars are doing all the time.. and yet again all down to costs not funded by the NHS. He said i can try it for a week lol. But iam not leaving it there. Ive heard and seen alot of diabetics that have these problems and can aslong as they feel well continue with levels in the higher levels. Like you said before you felt hungry you would automaticlly eat which is a normal response, but contiuing doing this over time will cause problems itself. So for me personally i know where your coming from. I never used to have this i think its mainly due to elevated sugars over a period of time your body assumes higher levels are the norm and 10s etc feels low. I think i CGM would make me overide these feelings and stop me automatically grabbing food when feeling hungry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 45091, post: 294151"] Hi yes experience the same symptoms. Been diabetic now for about 22 years type one. Last couple years or so as my sugars started creeping up. I can feel really hungry and even a bit shaky when my sugars are around 12. Its annoying because before when i felt a bit hungry it was a gurantee hypo coming on cold sweat etc weak. Ive explained this to the specialists etc so the predicament iam in is this. Before when i felt shaky and hungry i just used to eat. But after testing a few times its clear that its actually higher most of the time. The docs dont want me to test everytime i feel hungry so what do you do. If i just eat it will send my sugars up higher, if i dont test because of the costs of tests strips then eventually as my sugars improve it could be a hypo which could lead to further problems. So to combat all these issues ive asked for a continues glucose monitor so i can roughly see what my sugars are doing all the time.. and yet again all down to costs not funded by the NHS. He said i can try it for a week lol. But iam not leaving it there. Ive heard and seen alot of diabetics that have these problems and can aslong as they feel well continue with levels in the higher levels. Like you said before you felt hungry you would automaticlly eat which is a normal response, but contiuing doing this over time will cause problems itself. So for me personally i know where your coming from. I never used to have this i think its mainly due to elevated sugars over a period of time your body assumes higher levels are the norm and 10s etc feels low. I think i CGM would make me overide these feelings and stop me automatically grabbing food when feeling hungry. [/QUOTE]
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