SchizoPolyGymnast
Paragon
- May 28, 2024
- 942
I'm not diabetic but I have prediabetes secondary to antipsychotics and my a1C is currently around 6.2. For those not in the know, that's juuuuuuust below the threshold for a T2D diagnosis. Between lowering my Geodon dose slightly, going easy on the carbs and doing my gymnastics program, I was able to lower that number slightly. My goal is to have a normal a1C by this time next year. But the truth of the matter is, it's easier said than done.
For one, I have a neurological disorder that impairs my interoception. Hunger and fullness cues aren't really a thing, and even when they are, it doesn't seem to matter. I'll eat what I think is a decent meal and a mere hour and a half later, my pancreas just dumps insulin into my bloodstream. So I'll eat and then shortly after, I will have low blood sugar. Ravenous low blood sugar. I don't know if anyone here has experienced that, but let me briefly describe it. It's pure emptiness. You have crazy eyes. You're shaking and you're sweating worse than a jogger in the Everglades. And you just want to eat even though you know you reaaaaally shouldn't. You almost have to or you will pass out. You just get to a point where you don't have any strength to hold your head up. I did a little digging, and apparently, it's common to experience this reactive hypoglycemia when your a1c is improving. So this misery is a sign that I'm actually doing the right thing. The irony is that your body is basically sabotaging you at that point.
I also experience the same hypoglycemia that most people experience, which is when I have NOT eaten. What kills me is when I develop headache and/or nausea, because that destroys any interest I may have in food. Even though I know my problem is caused by lack of food and will only get worse through lack of food...I can't make myself eat. If I'm really desperate, I will drink soda and eat baby food just to get me out of the death spiral. But eating food just feels so gross.
I struggle with migraines too and I take Imitrex. Something I have noticed is that once I take Imitrex after a migraine and the pain and hot flashes have gone...the munchies begin. And I mean MEGA munchies. I literally can't stop eating, and I'm not after carbs and sweets either. I'm going for the fats and the proteins. I'm going for an 8 course meal here and it's 100% a physical hunger that has nothing to do with my feelings. It's a bottomless pit empty feeling. I've tried talking to my neurologist about it and she keeps insisting that there is no research on this, and that this is psychological, that I am eating for comfort. Gaslighting BS if you ask me. I have a new doc and I'm going to bring this up with her. Apparently this type of behavior is sometimes seen with seizure activity.
So someone tell me this: How am I supposed to follow healthy lifestyle advice? How am I supposed to function? My body doesn't seem to tolerate it and when I ask for help no one believes me
For one, I have a neurological disorder that impairs my interoception. Hunger and fullness cues aren't really a thing, and even when they are, it doesn't seem to matter. I'll eat what I think is a decent meal and a mere hour and a half later, my pancreas just dumps insulin into my bloodstream. So I'll eat and then shortly after, I will have low blood sugar. Ravenous low blood sugar. I don't know if anyone here has experienced that, but let me briefly describe it. It's pure emptiness. You have crazy eyes. You're shaking and you're sweating worse than a jogger in the Everglades. And you just want to eat even though you know you reaaaaally shouldn't. You almost have to or you will pass out. You just get to a point where you don't have any strength to hold your head up. I did a little digging, and apparently, it's common to experience this reactive hypoglycemia when your a1c is improving. So this misery is a sign that I'm actually doing the right thing. The irony is that your body is basically sabotaging you at that point.
I also experience the same hypoglycemia that most people experience, which is when I have NOT eaten. What kills me is when I develop headache and/or nausea, because that destroys any interest I may have in food. Even though I know my problem is caused by lack of food and will only get worse through lack of food...I can't make myself eat. If I'm really desperate, I will drink soda and eat baby food just to get me out of the death spiral. But eating food just feels so gross.
I struggle with migraines too and I take Imitrex. Something I have noticed is that once I take Imitrex after a migraine and the pain and hot flashes have gone...the munchies begin. And I mean MEGA munchies. I literally can't stop eating, and I'm not after carbs and sweets either. I'm going for the fats and the proteins. I'm going for an 8 course meal here and it's 100% a physical hunger that has nothing to do with my feelings. It's a bottomless pit empty feeling. I've tried talking to my neurologist about it and she keeps insisting that there is no research on this, and that this is psychological, that I am eating for comfort. Gaslighting BS if you ask me. I have a new doc and I'm going to bring this up with her. Apparently this type of behavior is sometimes seen with seizure activity.
So someone tell me this: How am I supposed to follow healthy lifestyle advice? How am I supposed to function? My body doesn't seem to tolerate it and when I ask for help no one believes me
