Hyperglycaemia symptoms include weight loss. I used to be very healthy and a weight of about 75kg. After I left the Army I gained weight and got to about 100kg. I became ill and that lead to hypwrglycaemia. But before I was diagnosed, I lost about 10 kg. After I was put on insulin, I gained 20kg. Is there any one else that has this type of experience? Could it be that the weight loss symptom is the body trying to correct the weight gain and insulin resistance? If so is taking the insulin actually detrimental? Is there any study that has explored this?
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- Thread starter Mick Pana
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Hi Mick and welcome to the forums. Those are good questions, and I only wish I had some good answers for them. If you read around on these forums (and other places) you'll find that the experiences of people diagnosed with "Type 2 diabetes" varies quite a lot. The one thing that's consistently shared is high blood glucose at the point of diagnosis, which isn't surprising given that's how it's officially diagnosed.
My experience was not the same as yours - I had a number of diabetic symptoms at comparatively low (but still abnormal) blood glucose levels, gained a lot of weight and more symptoms over the next ten years, was told on several occasions that I was definitely not diabetic until finally "diagnosed" in 2019. My T2 responded really quickly to low carb and blood glucose was normal inside four months. My BG was never that high (topped out at 50), I had only weight gain and no weight loss, but had a lot of symptoms that "you're not supposed to get at low levels".
Some of us on here have discussed the possibility that because we all seem to share the same high BG symptom the assumption has been that it's all caused by the same thing. It's not that long ago (1990s) that medical textbooks stated that diabetes was one condition that was either "insulin dependent" or "non-insulin dependent".
Given that enough of us with apparently the same "T2" condition have almost totally different experiences and respond (or don't) to low carb (as one example) in different ways, it's a good question to my mind as to whether we actually have the same, or different, conditions.
Unfortunately research these days depends entirely on funding, and almost all of that is in the hands of the drug companies. This means that what gets published is focused on more and newer medication, not root causes or non-pharmaceutical interventions.
My experience was not the same as yours - I had a number of diabetic symptoms at comparatively low (but still abnormal) blood glucose levels, gained a lot of weight and more symptoms over the next ten years, was told on several occasions that I was definitely not diabetic until finally "diagnosed" in 2019. My T2 responded really quickly to low carb and blood glucose was normal inside four months. My BG was never that high (topped out at 50), I had only weight gain and no weight loss, but had a lot of symptoms that "you're not supposed to get at low levels".
Some of us on here have discussed the possibility that because we all seem to share the same high BG symptom the assumption has been that it's all caused by the same thing. It's not that long ago (1990s) that medical textbooks stated that diabetes was one condition that was either "insulin dependent" or "non-insulin dependent".
Given that enough of us with apparently the same "T2" condition have almost totally different experiences and respond (or don't) to low carb (as one example) in different ways, it's a good question to my mind as to whether we actually have the same, or different, conditions.
Unfortunately research these days depends entirely on funding, and almost all of that is in the hands of the drug companies. This means that what gets published is focused on more and newer medication, not root causes or non-pharmaceutical interventions.
Mark Rawlinson
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This is how I understand the weight loss/gain. Your body cells need to nutrition form sugar in your blood as do all organs and muscle however because of the severity of the Diabetes you cells etc are not opening to allow the sugar/glucose whatever name in. The way they get their nutrition in this case is by using any other available source so the body fat starts to be used hence the weight loss.
When you start to use insulin the cells have the message to open and allow the sugar from the blood in so the food sources are used as they should be and the blood sugar levels go down, however because this is happening any fats etc not needed are then deposited as fat as usual hence the weight gain that's how I think anyway.
When you start to use insulin the cells have the message to open and allow the sugar from the blood in so the food sources are used as they should be and the blood sugar levels go down, however because this is happening any fats etc not needed are then deposited as fat as usual hence the weight gain that's how I think anyway.
