Does it ever stop

[cdpm]

Does the insulin caused excessive hunger ever stop? Eating never helps .

 

[cdpm]

It doesn't

 

[cdpm]

I'm just stopping it. I can't deal with the side effects anymore. Cramps and leg pain and excessive hunger.

 

[Jaylee]

Insulin doesn’t have that side effect for me.

… unless my BGs drop to the point I feel hypo. (Hypo territory?)
It will stop when I’m back in range. Or approaching it.

 

[lovinglife]

I think anyone whether on insulin or not, diabetic or not would suffer massive hunger pangs on the tiny amount of food you have to eat. Hunger is a natural state of your body asking for nutrients & sustenance, I doubt it’s solely fuelled by having to inject insulin
.

 

[cdpm]

I talked to a family member to find out some dates of things and discovered something.
That my excessive hunger dates back to before 2011. So this is like way before I even had diabetes and went on insulin.
But even so it settles down alot not using the insulin.
So it's a difficult thing to figure out.
But yes definitely my amount of food has something to do with it for sure.

 

[zand]

This is my experience as a T2 not on insulin.
I was always hungry, even after a roast dinner and dessert and snacks after that. I know how awful constant hunger is.
Around 4 years before I was diagnosed I noticed that eating carbs made me feel hungry. The more carbs I ate the hungrier I became. Around a year before I was diagnosed I learnt about insulin resistance and that carbs induced a release of insulin.
Like you I was diagnosed as T2 in 2011. If I have carbs I am hungrier than if I don't. I therefore believe that for me it's the insulin my own body produces that makes me feel hungry. So, yes, as a T2 on insulin it makes sense that part of the hunger you experience may be caused by the insulin. I wouldn't expect a T1 to have the same issues.

I agree that most people would be hungry on the small amount of food you have, and the hunger builds as the body craves nutrition. I feel for you as you are really battling on a few fronts and that's tough. All I would suggest is to try to eat good nutritious low carb food. Easy to say not easy to do in your situation. I was in Canada in June and I know how high the food prices are.

Re the leg cramps...I have a magnesium supplement which helps with those. I don't take it all the time, just for a few days if I get cramps.

Please don't let your BGs go sky high because you aren't using insulin. I would hate you to have even more problems to add to the list.

Hugs and best wishes.
X

 

[cdpm]

Well we did find some eggs (low carb food) on sale so hoping to mix some with sour cream like an egg salad.
I hate mayo.
I find eggs too dry to eat unless they are scrambled or mixed with something creamy, but my legs hurt too much to stand that long to scramble them.

 

[Tony337]

Hi
When my phone tells me my levels are 5.5 then i know i am exactly where i want to be......
This is enough for me to dismiss any feelings of hunger.
I tell myself i am fab u lous for having such good control.

It works for me

Tony

 

[Hopeful34]

Well we did find some eggs (low carb food) on sale so hoping to mix some with sour cream like an egg salad.
I hate mayo.
I find eggs too dry to eat unless they are scrambled or mixed with something creamy, but my legs hurt too much to stand that long to scrambled them.

Glad you managed to get some eggs. Scrambled eggs in the microwave are nice, if you could manage that.

 

[Sarah69]

When I was on insulin I was hungry all the time. It was horrible and I gained so much weight too so the insulin was stopped thank god!

 

[cdpm]

Hi
When my phone tells me my levels are 5.5 then i know i am exactly where i want to be......
This is enough for me to dismiss any feelings of hunger.
I tell myself i am fab u lous for having such good control.

It works for me

Tony

That's neat.

 

[cdpm]

Glad you managed to get some eggs. Scrambled eggs in the microwave are nice, if you could manage that.

How do you do it?

 

[cdpm]

When I was on insulin I was hungry all the time. It was horrible and I gained so much weight too so the insulin was stopped thank god!

I've stopped a few times but I get scared back into it.

 

[cdpm]

When I was on insulin I was hungry all the time. It was horrible and I gained so much weight too so the insulin was stopped thank god!

Just curious about if u went on any meds. And what ones?

 

[Sarah69]

Just curious about if u went on any meds. And what ones?

Yes I’m on quite a few medications, metformin, empaglaflozin, pioglitazone and lantus.

 

[Antje77]

Yes I’m on quite a few medications, metformin, empaglaflozin, pioglitazone and lantus.

Is it correct you're on Lantus? This is insulin.

 

[Sarah69]

Is it correct you're on Lantus? This is insulin.

Yes that’s correct, I was talking about the time I was on novarapid. It made me continually hungry!

 

[cdpm]

I don't think its going away.