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Does this sound like diabetes ?

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MilkyM

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Hi, i have a reoccurring illness i've been getting for a couple of years now. It's not uncommon to have it twice a week and it can last half a day. I usually get it after a long period of inactivity. If i wake up and read for a couple of hours after breakfast it'll start as a mild headache, then as it progresses on a tiredness comes over me and i lose interest in everything. I've been calling them phantom hangovers because it's similar but painkillers do nothing to help and neither does drinking water. My heart beat even seems exaggerated when i'm like this, small movements can cause it to beat like crazy. My eyes look incredibly tired as well.

The only thing that seems to help is being active, if i go out feeling like this i'll generally feel a lot better when i get back.

I have a very inactive lifestyle, i'm a 30 year old at home carer for my mum so i'm home 365 days a year. I lift weights for 3 hours a week and i'm trying to do more cardio work on top, but i can't avoid long periods of inactivity unless i make a conscious effort to do so.

Does it sound like diabetes or am i just lying around for too long ? The headache is a major symptom that seems to be left out of the symptom lists i read.

Thanks !
 
We can't diagnose illness. We are a bunch of diabetics and not doctors. What about taking it to a proper doctor. You only have to have a couple of blood tests to find out if it is diabetes.
 
Oh Squire, you are funny! Made me laugh. Milkym, classic symptoms are being more thirsty and going to toilet more due to high glucose levels. But as others have said, that's what the doc can find out. Even pharmacies can test you for diabetes nowadays - 2 second prick test.


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Thank you. I was just seeing if anyone had advice based off a detailed description. I eat a lot, i have 6-7 meals everyday, around 3000-3500 calories but my exercise is limited to 3 weightlifting sessions a week and whatever cardio i fit in. I never have to get up and go out to work and i worry about how inactive i am considering how much i have to eat. I follow a bulking diet and lifting routine.

Is there anything i absolutely should be doing to protect myself from harm with regards to exercise frequency, exercising after meals etc ?

Thanks.
 
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