Symptoms but all tests normal

[Listlad]

As has been said many a time on this forum: Correlation does not equal causation.

Heres an interesting snippet I found on the internet:

“The presence of type 2 diabetes prevents the body from being able to lower blood glucose levels as efficiently as in people without diabetes. For this reason, the symptoms of type 2 diabetes may be more noticeable following meals.”

 

[DCUKMod]

As would symptoms of many, many other conditions. Anyway, that's my last comment on this.

 

[Listlad]

As would symptoms of many, many other conditions. Anyway, that's my last comment on this.

We are of course all different. A line that crops up on the forum a lot. And....it helps to think out of the box a little sometimes too. And...I find it hard to believe that none of us T2’s notice any differences to our bodies when we have a carbier meal compared to the normal low carb meal.

 

[Walking Girl]

Hi During my stay at a hospital I was given large amounts of antibiotics. Right after a week been hospitalized again and given more and after a few days while still getting iv antibiotics I started to have tingling in my feet and soon realize it was after I ate anything sweet. After a month and then once again I undergone a1c test which came out to be ok though I still can’t eat anything sweet because I shortly get heat in my body sensation shortness of breath unsettling feeling in my feet and dry mouth. (at the time being in the hospital my a1c was pre diabetes but I might have eaten before but since it was ok) I measured my blood sugar after a large meal recently when I had those symptoms and it was 150 mg/dL or 8.3 mmol/l and my fasting glucose is 99 mg/dL or 5.5 mmol/l so I don’t know what’s wrong with me because according to a1c I’m supposed to tolerate sugar and I don’t.. it’s been going on for half a year now. So what test should I get At all to know how to proceed? Also I take antipsychotic medication seroquel 800mg a day and tegritol. Thanks! P.s.no one in my family has diabetes and weight is 102 kg at high bone density

I don’t think shortness of breath and dry mouth are common diabetes symptoms, at least I’ve never heard of them. Tingling in the feet can increase when BG is high in those who have neuropathy, but I don’t know that it does in those without it. Quite frankly, sounds more like a food sensitivity. I get short of breath at times when I drink a very hoppy beer. I was tested for an allergy because I certainly have environmental allergies, but it was negative. The doctor (an ENT and allergy specialist) said food sensitivities can spur all kinds of weird symptoms, and they may or may not ever progress into a true allergy. Does this occur only with certain foods? Have you discussed possible food sensitivities with your doctor?

Edited to add: as to whether 8.3 after eating is normal, it depends completely on how long after eating the reading occurred. Various medical authorities set various standards, but generally speaking a non-diabetic is under 7 within 2 hours after eating.

 

[Listlad]

I don’t think shortness of breath and dry mouth are common diabetes symptoms, at least I’ve never heard of them. Tingling in the feet can increase when BG is high in those who have neuropathy, but I don’t know that it does in those without it. Quite frankly, sounds more like a food sensitivity. I get short of breath at times when I drink a very hoppy beer. I was tested for an allergy because I certainly have environmental allergies, but it was negative. The doctor (an ENT and allergy specialist) said food sensitivities can spur all kinds of weird symptoms, and they may or may not ever progress into a true allergy. Does this occur only with certain foods? Have you discussed possible food sensitivities with your doctor?

Edited to add: as to whether 8.3 after eating is normal, it depends completely on how long after eating the reading occurred. Various medical authorities set various standards, but generally speaking a non-diabetic is under 7 within 2 hours after eating.

On Dry Mouth:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-complications/dry-mouth.html

 

[Dark Horse]

A condition called idiopathic postprandial syndrome gives symptoms of hypoglycaemia following meals although blood glucose levels are actually normal. https://www.healthline.com/health/idiopathic-postprandial-syndrome#treatment

Have you checked your blood pressure when you have symptoms? There is a condition where people get low blood pressure after eating. https://www.verywellhealth.com/postprandial-hypotension-1746385

 

[DJC3]

Also don't take antibiotics, IV antibiotics, doxcy and amoxicillin ruined my health from being healthy individual to sick.

Antibiotics save countless lives. Certainly their overuse has caused problems with emerging resistant strains but many infectious diseases are cured by their use and many forms of surgery would be impossible to contemplate without them. Yes some antibiotics disturb the gut microflora but I think your advice is a little too sweeping.

 

[Listlad]

Maybe there should be a thread on classic T2 diabetes symptoms.

 

[Resurgam]

I can certainly track back to a couple of long periods of antibiotic use in my late teens and early 20s when nothing was working and I had inflamed tonsils and the next thing to pneumonia. In the end the doctor was calling at the house to see me twice a day, and eventually brought a sample of a new tablet for me to take - I was out of bed on the third day and met the doctor at the front door. He was somewhat shocked. Although it knocked the respiratory tract infections right out of my system - I have never had one as bad again, it changed my tendency to avoid carbs to a real need to watch what I ate all the time. If I had not had a succession of doctors who insisted that I was too heavy and should eat more carbs because that is a healthy diet I might have avoided the eventual diagnosis of type two diabetes, as what I eat now is really the same Atkins diet I settled on way back - just adjusted down a little due to my age.
These days I eat a wide variety of plant life, all different types and colours, and I think I am fairly well back to normal - or as near normal as I will get, as I can eat extra carbs and not see high blood glucose, but, just as in the past, I then put on weight very fast, and it can take weeks to remove it. If I cut back too much I lose all energy - my metabolism works much like a turbo charger on a small engine, if it cuts out I have to work up through the revs and gears again. When it gets going - well - just think of Tigger in Winnie the pooh.