I've had diabetes type 1 for 12 years and (what i thought) ME/CFS for 6 years.
I've been seeing a group of specialists on ME/CFS for the last 1.5 years, and their conclusion is that they can't give me a ME/CFS diagnosis because I have diabetes and ME/CFS is an exclusion-diagnosis. Meaning they can't exclude that my symptoms come from bad managed diabetes. My latest HbA1c is 7.1, which the doctor told me was high.
So I need a little help from you fine people. If I list my symptoms, can you help me determine what comes from diabetes and what's not common as a diabetic?
- Waking up and never feeling rested, regardless of what my blood sugar level has been through the night.
- Pain from eating.
- Undefined pain in stomach and in finger/foot-joints.
- Bad short time memory.
- Bodily pain from outside stress.
- Reduced ability to concentrate.
- Loss of words.
- Palpitations.
- Dizziness.
- Hard to focus with my eyes.
- A feeling of having to lie down (as if something is pulling me down).
- Short of breath.
I would appreciate any kind of help!
I've been seeing a group of specialists on ME/CFS for the last 1.5 years, and their conclusion is that they can't give me a ME/CFS diagnosis because I have diabetes and ME/CFS is an exclusion-diagnosis. Meaning they can't exclude that my symptoms come from bad managed diabetes. My latest HbA1c is 7.1, which the doctor told me was high.
So I need a little help from you fine people. If I list my symptoms, can you help me determine what comes from diabetes and what's not common as a diabetic?
- Waking up and never feeling rested, regardless of what my blood sugar level has been through the night.
- Pain from eating.
- Undefined pain in stomach and in finger/foot-joints.
- Bad short time memory.
- Bodily pain from outside stress.
- Reduced ability to concentrate.
- Loss of words.
- Palpitations.
- Dizziness.
- Hard to focus with my eyes.
- A feeling of having to lie down (as if something is pulling me down).
- Short of breath.
I would appreciate any kind of help!
