We’ve all felt hunger so intense you feel like you are going to get sick or some other dramatic feeling of impending death.
You take a bite of a sandwich or sip of latte and magic, you feel better.
How do signs of diabetes differ from dramatic hunger?
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Type 2 diabetic here. Diabetes doesn’t feel like hunger until it’s advanced. I was trained that if I get hungry, to eat something. If I get thirsty, have some water, and if I’m still thirsty check my sugars immediately!
You’ll be thirsty with uncontrolled diabetes. Like, you just chugged 32oz of water, you can feel that your stomach is uncomfortably full of liquid, and you STILL feel thirsty.
Another sign is the need to pee All. The. Time. If left unaddressed/your sugars stay too high you’ll start to lose bladder control. By the time you get to ‘I’m hungry all the time’ you’ll have reached ketoacidosis (related but not the same as ‘keto’ dieting) and you will have gone through all sorts of other symptoms such as shaking, sweating, dizziness, and generally feeling sick for multiple days or weeks in a row. Your body gives you lots of warning, if you listen.
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