EXCESSIVE CRYING AND DIABETES

[GraceK]

About 6 years ago when I had all the standard symptoms of diabetes but before I was diagnosed, I began to cry at the least little thing. It felt very different to any way I'd ever cried before and it got so bad that I became agoraphobic because I never knew when I was going to burst into tears.

The way it felt different was that I was very aware of my whole body being involved in this crying, it felt like I was hollow and filling with water from the feet up, I would feel a tightness and sense of bloating and fullness around the chest for maybe a few hours, my voice would be croaky and eventually I'd just burst into tears and it would go on for hours. Afterwards I'd feel absolutely jaded. I didn't feel sad or depressed, just worn out with crying.

I noticed that when that happened, I didn't seem to need to pee so much as usual and the crying was exactly like when you need to pee, it just had to happen, no way could I hold it back. And since I've been diagnosed, put on meds and changed my diet, that crying has stopped. So I'm wondering if crying can also be a way that the body tries to rid itself of excess sugar when perhaps the kidneys are getting exhausted.

I don't think we yet know enough about crying as a means of removing toxins from the body, we tend to only associate crying with depression and sadness etc., but I certainly believe that my crying was exactly the same as the frequent urination many diabetics experience as their kidneys try to remove excess sugar and waste.

Has anyone else experienced this sort of uncontrollable crying bouts? And what do you think about it?

 

[anna29]

Grace .
Have you never been offered any counselling?
With your tears, lack of confidence [for fear of crying in public] and fear of going outdoors.
Whenever we have a life change event, diabetes diagnosis , death in family, cancer illness, loss of job, car accident, divorced etc.
It can and does affect each person differently...
There IS always a "trigger switch" - then the trauma or grief or shock kicks in.
It then breaks out in another form, illness, depression, crying, fear, anger [like if you have always been
a calm personality] stressed, etc...
As what impacts then needs an outlet - this can take months or even years to happen in some cases!
I cried for 2 weeks solid after losing my 1st dog we had had her for over 14years.
Felt wrung out after 2 weeks of wailing uncontrollably - but it certainly made me a far better person.
It was like it got rid of loads of stress in me too.
Hubby bought me 2 yes "2" more dogs, only 6 weeks after all this happened!
One (gracey) who alerts me when I get too low blood sugared, so all things do happen for a reason.
She can smell the changes in my own body scent, wont leave my side then will pester me to
the point of absolute annoyance when am going too low BG levels.
Anna.

 

[lucylocket61]

I have noticed tht I am far less emotional and prone to tears when my blodd sugars are stable. And I was very, very emotionally, to the point of crying at nothing, before I was diagnosed and started low carb.

so, for some of us, I think you are right.

It may not be a direct link. I know when I had pneumonia and another time when I was very ill in hospital, that I cried too much too. Maybe out bodies are such finely tuned instruments, that anything out of kilter can trigger all sorts of reactions and over-reactions.

 

[GraceK]

Grace .
Have you never been offered any counselling?
With your tears, lack of confidence [for fear of crying in public] and fear of going outdoors.
Whenever we have a life change event, diabetes diagnosis , death in family, cancer illness, loss of job, car accident, divorced etc.
It can and does affect each person differently...
There IS always a "trigger switch" - then the trauma or grief or shock kicks in.
It then breaks out in another form, illness, depression, crying, fear, anger [like if you have always been
a calm personality] stressed, etc...
As what impacts then needs an outlet - this can take months or even years to happen in some cases!
I cried for 2 weeks solid after losing my 1st dog we had had her for over 14years.
Felt wrung out after 2 weeks of wailing uncontrollably - but it certainly made me a far better person.
It was like it got rid of loads of stress in me too.
Hubby bought me 2 yes "2" more dogs, only 6 weeks after all this happened!
One (gracey) who alerts me when I get too low blood sugared, so all things do happen for a reason.
She can smell the changes in my own body scent, wont leave my side then will pester me to
the point of absolute annoyance when am going too low BG levels.
Anna.

Anna ... over the years I've had the counselling, I've had the anti-depressants, you name it I've had it on the 'psychological' spectrum - nothing has worked ... until I was diagnosed diabetic, put on Metformin, changed my diet ... et voila!!! practically overnight, the peeing and the crying stopped ... just like that. I now feel mentally WONDERFUL for the first time in decades. And I think the whole thing was down to bloody sugar levels and undiagnosed diabetes.