I haven't tested my bg, the doctor told me theres no need and my diabetes can be controlled by diet alone ?????
I am experiencing some awful symptoms and not even sure if it's related to the Diabetes but it all started back in Jan/Feb when I had a medication reaction to Venlafaxine.
However these 'episodes' were random to begin with but now they occur every single day and more intense and sometimes last all day or just happen once a day. I can't seem to find a trigger for them.
Symptoms are:
Excessive sweating, mainly head and chest, so much so I look as if someone's thrown a bucket of water over me.
Body feels as if it's on fire and legs feel red hot to the touch yet feet and hands feel icey cold.
Light headed as if I'm going to pass out any minute, and hearing muffled at same time.
Dry mouth.
Extreme nausea, feel as if I am going to be sick at any moment.
Sometimes tingling in fingers and lips but not always.
Mild tightness across chest but nothing much to speak of and this could actually be part of the following anxiety attack that I get when all this is going on.
Breathlessness
And of course this all kicks off an anxiety attack because I have no idea what the hell it is and it's really scarey.
Back in Jan/Feb I was put on blood pressure tablets as the doctor said I had high blood pressure. Then after recording BP levels 3 times a day for a week, was taken off the tablets as they said I didn't have high blood pressure.
I was also put on Levothyroxine for my thryoid which they said needed adjusting. Had no problem with it prior to that. Still on those tablet but wondering if its them that's causing the episodes. Or maybe it's a Thyroid Storm?
The day before yesterday I was dreadful all day and its so bad I feel unsafe and unwell to walk from one room to another or out into the garden for fear of passing out. Then yesterday I felt fine all day until 11.30 at night when it all kicked off. It was so intense I rang my neighbour and staggered round to her place for an hour (I have noisey dogs if anyone comes to my place and being almot midnight didnt think my other neighbour would be impressed).
The symptoms seemed to improve very slightly, so I then went back home, and went to bed, sitting up as I felt too poorly to lie down.
This morning I still had the symptoms but not so strong, and rang the doctor and made an app to see him at 1.30 today.
The thing is, I was perfectly healthy in Jan/Feb apart from the reaction to the venlafaxine, and because of that I'm now being treated for thyroid and diabetes when I probably don't have a thyroid problem. How can someone go from being perfectly active, healthy and happpy one day to a total physical wreck the next? wonder if I really need the thyroid meds, and if not maybe its them that's causing these problems.
So I don't know if this is all related to my recent diabetes diagnosis or not. Which is why I asked about hypos because I thought it might be that. I did ring the doctor last Thursday as I felt so ill and he just said, maybe I'm not eating enough carbs and to eat more carbs. *rolls eyes* I can't see how the LCHF diet I am on since February could give me all these horrid symptoms. At my wits end to be honest.
Will post in here when I get back from the doc's. I'm fed up with it now as it's gone on for several months and it's ruined my quality of life. I don't feel well enough to do anything.