Hello everybody,
I don’t have a diagnosis but rather have been asking myself if it’s worth investigating. Thought maybe I could use the community insight, because I don’t know if what I’m experiencing is normal or if it’s worth getting a test for.
Here’s a little explanation of my health:
- I’m a 26yo female, always had a regular low weight/BMI (about 20 BMI iirc). Always ate fine although never been a big eater.
- I’ve had strong and various allergies from the youngest age, as well as eczema and asthma. I had a lot of asthma inhalers, antihistamine and everything you can imagine to treat those.
- it’s better now, I only have the occasional asthma or hay fever, however when I use my asthma inhaler when I’m having a bout, my heart pounds heavily and fast and my body is shaking to the point I struggle to use a phone. So I have to stay about 1h in bed for these symptoms to calm down, thankfully I very rarely need to use the inhaler. I think it started happening when I was a teenager, dunno why.
- my main issue is nausea. For the past 5 years I have been struggling with almost chronic nausea and vomiting episodes. I attribute it to anxiety/heartburn because when I did some tests in the US (blood, urine and stool test) everything came back normal. I do remember having nausea episodes when I was 9 years old too, in the morning at school, sometimes intense enough for me to go back home.
- the nausea happens when I’m stressed, or when I’m hungry, or when I’m full. It makes it hard for me to know if I’m supposed to eat more or less, cause the hunger feeling is almost always replaced by nausea nowadays...
- I also noticed the past few years I am getting increasingly more sensitive to sugar, fat and alcohol. I mentioned to a doctor that drinking even a sip of alcohol makes me feel bad/drunk/wanna throw up, but they brushed it off as “good you won’t drink any then that’s better for the body”, but I used to be able to drink alcohol without any issue. Yesterday I gave myself a sweet treat with a glorious donut, but I had to eat it in 3 times because it made me feel sick, and I was still feeling sick this morning when I woke up.
- one detail that made me think about diabetes is that I’ve had hypoglycaemia episodes a few times. Once in high school during sports lesson, I had to stop running because I feeling nauseous, sweaty, shaky etc and had to sit on the ground. The teacher thought I had skipped breakfast but it wasn’t the case, I had taken my usual breakfast. A few years ago something similar happened, I went biking all day with a friend (we both don’t exercise a lot) and a few hours after we came back I felt terrible to the point we considered calling in a doctor. My legs had cramps, I was shaking, stuck lying on the floor, in pain and not able to do anything but try to keep it together. We assumed it was dehydration from the exercise, the morning after I was ok, although barely able to walk cause of the pain and fear of triggering the episode again.
- regularly speaking, I’ve never been into sports, but whenever I walk out to get groceries or exercise a bit at home, I feel unwell during or after it and have to sit down with water and wait half an hour to feel better. Sometimes eating something sweet helps. I also occasionally have headaches that happen when I’m late on my meals. I usually feel the need to eat something sweet when I need to work because otherwise I struggle to think, I feel tired and inattentive most of the time.
- I find my temperature regulation to often be unstable as well. I often have bouts of feeling super cold despite a ton of warm layers, followed by feeling super hot and sweating in a t-shirt by a 10c temperature. I have the occasional palpitations feelings as well
Apologies for the long description, I know only doctors can give a diagnosis. The reason why I’m sharing here is because whenever I brought up these symptoms, doctors or friends/family just brush it off as “it’s normal” or “you need to exercise more”. I don’t believe I’ve been tested for diabetes; from what I’ve read, diabetes diagnosis is done from getting blood sugar samples multiple times in a row, right?
Do you think I should bring it up to the doctors and insist that they take these symptoms seriously? Or that what I’m mentioning is probably just natural, occasional hypoglycaemia happening cause of lack of food/drink/exercise and stress?
I don’t know anyone with diabetes so I’m completely clueless as to what the intensity of the symptoms is supposed to be to be worth looking into...
Thanks in advance and sorry if this post is inappropriate!
I don’t have a diagnosis but rather have been asking myself if it’s worth investigating. Thought maybe I could use the community insight, because I don’t know if what I’m experiencing is normal or if it’s worth getting a test for.
Here’s a little explanation of my health:
- I’m a 26yo female, always had a regular low weight/BMI (about 20 BMI iirc). Always ate fine although never been a big eater.
- I’ve had strong and various allergies from the youngest age, as well as eczema and asthma. I had a lot of asthma inhalers, antihistamine and everything you can imagine to treat those.
- it’s better now, I only have the occasional asthma or hay fever, however when I use my asthma inhaler when I’m having a bout, my heart pounds heavily and fast and my body is shaking to the point I struggle to use a phone. So I have to stay about 1h in bed for these symptoms to calm down, thankfully I very rarely need to use the inhaler. I think it started happening when I was a teenager, dunno why.
- my main issue is nausea. For the past 5 years I have been struggling with almost chronic nausea and vomiting episodes. I attribute it to anxiety/heartburn because when I did some tests in the US (blood, urine and stool test) everything came back normal. I do remember having nausea episodes when I was 9 years old too, in the morning at school, sometimes intense enough for me to go back home.
- the nausea happens when I’m stressed, or when I’m hungry, or when I’m full. It makes it hard for me to know if I’m supposed to eat more or less, cause the hunger feeling is almost always replaced by nausea nowadays...
- I also noticed the past few years I am getting increasingly more sensitive to sugar, fat and alcohol. I mentioned to a doctor that drinking even a sip of alcohol makes me feel bad/drunk/wanna throw up, but they brushed it off as “good you won’t drink any then that’s better for the body”, but I used to be able to drink alcohol without any issue. Yesterday I gave myself a sweet treat with a glorious donut, but I had to eat it in 3 times because it made me feel sick, and I was still feeling sick this morning when I woke up.
- one detail that made me think about diabetes is that I’ve had hypoglycaemia episodes a few times. Once in high school during sports lesson, I had to stop running because I feeling nauseous, sweaty, shaky etc and had to sit on the ground. The teacher thought I had skipped breakfast but it wasn’t the case, I had taken my usual breakfast. A few years ago something similar happened, I went biking all day with a friend (we both don’t exercise a lot) and a few hours after we came back I felt terrible to the point we considered calling in a doctor. My legs had cramps, I was shaking, stuck lying on the floor, in pain and not able to do anything but try to keep it together. We assumed it was dehydration from the exercise, the morning after I was ok, although barely able to walk cause of the pain and fear of triggering the episode again.
- regularly speaking, I’ve never been into sports, but whenever I walk out to get groceries or exercise a bit at home, I feel unwell during or after it and have to sit down with water and wait half an hour to feel better. Sometimes eating something sweet helps. I also occasionally have headaches that happen when I’m late on my meals. I usually feel the need to eat something sweet when I need to work because otherwise I struggle to think, I feel tired and inattentive most of the time.
- I find my temperature regulation to often be unstable as well. I often have bouts of feeling super cold despite a ton of warm layers, followed by feeling super hot and sweating in a t-shirt by a 10c temperature. I have the occasional palpitations feelings as well
Apologies for the long description, I know only doctors can give a diagnosis. The reason why I’m sharing here is because whenever I brought up these symptoms, doctors or friends/family just brush it off as “it’s normal” or “you need to exercise more”. I don’t believe I’ve been tested for diabetes; from what I’ve read, diabetes diagnosis is done from getting blood sugar samples multiple times in a row, right?
Do you think I should bring it up to the doctors and insist that they take these symptoms seriously? Or that what I’m mentioning is probably just natural, occasional hypoglycaemia happening cause of lack of food/drink/exercise and stress?
I don’t know anyone with diabetes so I’m completely clueless as to what the intensity of the symptoms is supposed to be to be worth looking into...
Thanks in advance and sorry if this post is inappropriate!
