Hello everyone,
I believe I have sudden diabetes.
On the 9th of March (more or less) I discovered a sweet taste in my mouth, my saliva was sweet. That taste persisted the next day, so I started taking my blood glucose first thing in the morning, after about 8+ hours of fasting. The results were near 100 (5.6 in UK terms) and according to the documentation it is classed as borderline prediabetes.
A few days later I got a blocked nose, stuffy but not runny, and a sweet smell. The sweet taste and the sweet smell, come and go, and the sweet smell is more often than the sweet taste. The nose is stuffy most of the time as if I have got a cold, but there is no discharge.
Finally right at the same time, I became "constipated" meaning I only visit the toilet once a day, when my usual average is at least 3 times a day. This was also a profound change, as I now visit the toilet in the morning and forget about it for the rest of the day, which is definitely not how it used to be before.
After a month or more of this, I asked my wife to kiss me just to make sure I was not dreaming the sweet taste (it was a medical emergency after all), and she verified a very sweet taste in my mouth,
Last three days I decided to cut down on carbs, so yesterday early morning my readings were about 5.0 and I was happy with that. Yesterday I had very little carbs but all evening and night I had this sweet taste it had come back, This is when the wife-kiss experiment took place. This morning the reading is 6.0 - clearly prediabetic especially if you are American,
I visited the GP who said that they do not really look at anything below 6.0 (fasting) and advised me on a better diet and not to worry about it. He was doubting my sweet smell and sweet taste thinking it must be seizure activity (I have brain cancer) and at that time I had not yet conducted the wife-kiss experiment which verified it is not a seizure, it is an actual sweet taste.
In addition I have two gall bladder stones. I was told the only solution is to remove the whole gall bladder and I have not done that.
I do not know how all the above is related. Can it be the gall bladder playing havoc with my digestion, thus the "constipation" but maybe also the way I digest food and the glucose readings?
Just to emphasize my morning readings in the past 4-5 weeks are all below 6.0. They average about 5.4, and only today I got a 6.0.
Any ideas and help would be most welcome.
I believe I have sudden diabetes.
On the 9th of March (more or less) I discovered a sweet taste in my mouth, my saliva was sweet. That taste persisted the next day, so I started taking my blood glucose first thing in the morning, after about 8+ hours of fasting. The results were near 100 (5.6 in UK terms) and according to the documentation it is classed as borderline prediabetes.
A few days later I got a blocked nose, stuffy but not runny, and a sweet smell. The sweet taste and the sweet smell, come and go, and the sweet smell is more often than the sweet taste. The nose is stuffy most of the time as if I have got a cold, but there is no discharge.
Finally right at the same time, I became "constipated" meaning I only visit the toilet once a day, when my usual average is at least 3 times a day. This was also a profound change, as I now visit the toilet in the morning and forget about it for the rest of the day, which is definitely not how it used to be before.
After a month or more of this, I asked my wife to kiss me just to make sure I was not dreaming the sweet taste (it was a medical emergency after all), and she verified a very sweet taste in my mouth,
Last three days I decided to cut down on carbs, so yesterday early morning my readings were about 5.0 and I was happy with that. Yesterday I had very little carbs but all evening and night I had this sweet taste it had come back, This is when the wife-kiss experiment took place. This morning the reading is 6.0 - clearly prediabetic especially if you are American,
I visited the GP who said that they do not really look at anything below 6.0 (fasting) and advised me on a better diet and not to worry about it. He was doubting my sweet smell and sweet taste thinking it must be seizure activity (I have brain cancer) and at that time I had not yet conducted the wife-kiss experiment which verified it is not a seizure, it is an actual sweet taste.
In addition I have two gall bladder stones. I was told the only solution is to remove the whole gall bladder and I have not done that.
I do not know how all the above is related. Can it be the gall bladder playing havoc with my digestion, thus the "constipation" but maybe also the way I digest food and the glucose readings?
Just to emphasize my morning readings in the past 4-5 weeks are all below 6.0. They average about 5.4, and only today I got a 6.0.
Any ideas and help would be most welcome.