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Hypo feeling after 2 months still?

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Huntinwabbits

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South Carolina, USA
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Two months have passed since I was told by the doctor that I'm approaching diabetes. I haven't had a follow up to confirm my a1c number yet.

I have made some big changes that have been great for me. I went from 255lbs to 226lbs. My fasting sugar was 126 at the doctor that morning and now I am consistently around 95. That's the good news.

My question: I am still feeling like false hypo. Consistently. Well, at least the symptoms of how I am feeling are consistent. Is it common to still be dealing with these busy changes 2 months later? Over 8 weeks and I still feel like I'm shaking, tremors, headaches, dizzy, wobbly, tired, pressure in my head like goosebumps and hairs on the back of neck standing up. I visited a doctor seems to think it's still he false hypo symptoms. But it's been 2 months. And doesn't feel any better. Some good days, many bad days.
 
Huntinwabbits said:
Over 8 weeks and I still feel like I'm shaking, tremors, headaches, dizzy, wobbly, tired, pressure in my head like goosebumps and hairs on the back of neck standing up. I visited a doctor seems to think it's still he false hypo symptoms. But it's been 2 months. And doesn't feel any better. Some good days, many bad days.
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Do you have a blood testing meter? If so, what blood sugar levels do those "false hypos"correspond to?
 
I do and I test regularly. The readings I feel this way usually correspond to 110-120. Sometimes a little lower closer to 100 but more often than not it's the 115avg
 
So how do you feel when you're at 95 as your fasting sugar? I'm not getting why you'd have a false hypo at 105 but feel fine at 95....

As a T1, who occasionally has to do the reverse, retrain my body to recognise hypos because I've had too many lows, I'd reckon weeks rather than months to make a difference, but I'm a sample of one and everyone's body is different.
 
Huntinwabbits said:
Two months have passed since I was told by the doctor that I'm approaching diabetes. I haven't had a follow up to confirm my a1c number yet.

I have made some big changes that have been great for me. I went from 255lbs to 226lbs. My fasting sugar was 126 at the doctor that morning and now I am consistently around 95. That's the good news.

My question: I am still feeling like false hypo. Consistently. Well, at least the symptoms of how I am feeling are consistent. Is it common to still be dealing with these busy changes 2 months later? Over 8 weeks and I still feel like I'm shaking, tremors, headaches, dizzy, wobbly, tired, pressure in my head like goosebumps and hairs on the back of neck standing up. I visited a doctor seems to think it's still he false hypo symptoms. But it's been 2 months. And doesn't feel any better. Some good days, many bad days.
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It does sound like false hypo's, but it's a bit weird you're still getting them two months in... You might want to go back to the doc and request a full check-up. Maybe you're hypothyroid? Vitamin D deficient? Deficient in anything else? Thing is, once you're a diabetic, everything is blamed on that.... While anything could be going on. (With me it was the reverse. I thought my diabetic symptoms were due to my wonky thyroid. Was getting worse and worse, because I just kept trying to adjust my thyroid meds and it wasn't helping.).

You could wait it out for a bit longer, but if you're this uncomfortable... I'd go for the check-up.
Good luck!
Jo
 
Feeling good and also awful when my readings are roughly the same is what made me question. The symptoms match false hypo. I'm out of town and the local doctor here said false hypos. But I just don't get how I can feel awful at 118 and feel fine at 115. I agree with the idea that everything gets blamed on diabetes but there is a safety net of "if it's diabetes I know and understand that." It gets scary when you Google and start thinking it's something different. I have my official follow up soon where they will retest my a1c to determine if I truly am diabetic so I am hoping to get more answers then. It is awful feeling miserable all the time. Look at the scale and look at the sugar numbers and everything suggests I'm getting healthier all the while feeling worse. I'm hoping it's just the "it gets worse before it gets better" idea but 2months in it has me concerned that false hypo symptoms are just coincidentally the same as something else going on. Searching online I found some say couple weeks. Seen some say 4 to 6 weeks. But I haven't seen anything says 2+ months so I figured I would ask this group of folks if anyone else has experienced that length of dealing with this.
 
I am wondering if it really is a false hypo - can you walk upstairs without getting the wobbles?
Ascension weakness is what Dr Atkins called that, and he recommended eating a few more carbs in the shape of a salad, and checking that you are getting enough salt and other electrolytes.
 
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