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What I've learned is that when you emigrate to the UK, you stop posting on lemmy!

Escape Velocity

Sounds like she's determined to stick around! Good for her! Is she a grandma? That was a motivation for my dad to get serious about his health enough to stop some bad eating habits.

Interesting. I always try to err on the side of caution with things "we know" to be true because every year, it seems, there's some shit that science shows we were wrong about for decades or more. Maybe you're like me and have skirted the line as pre diabetic? That's what it has showed for me since I started getting tested regularly in my 20s. My blood glucose bounces between 95-110 or so with my fasting labs.

After COVID, I started to notice body changes in myself with the prolonged lack of social activity. I stopped being able to tolerate extreme temps as much as I used to be able to handle, especially extreme heat. I noticed I started to sweat more, like a lot, lot more, when previously I had not sweat that much. I was having issues with shaking and twitches and muscle weakness when doing things as simple as picking up my child (born in December 2019). My arms and legs fell asleep more frequently than they used to. I also stopped being able to remember, talk good like and stuff, and would sometimes lose my train-of-thought mid-sentence, for instance. Generally, just noticing changes that I knew were out of the ordinary.

When I threw those things into ChatGPT (back a year or more ago, now), it immediately said my symptoms appeared to be MS, which I had suspected, though not prompted the generative AI to confirm. I gave it a list of new symptoms, no matter how attached they appeared, and it spit that out. Many symptoms of MS overlap with diabetes, including bladder function, vision issues, and numbness/tingling in extremities. The human body is so weird!

Ahh, the way social media was expected to work: sharing information, asking questions, connecting, and helping your fellow human beings with their suspected, though not confirmed, medical diagnoses! Instead, it's mostly just bots talking to bots with an obnoxious Times Square-level of ads compelling us to buy, buy, BUY! If this post can help anyone other than me, yourself included, that's just the icing on this delicious Lemmy cake!

If you do get tested, I'd be curious to know the results if you don't mind sharing them, as I think lived experience can go a long way toward helping not only those who see this post today, but those who may find it years from now! Thanks for the reply!!

Thanks for the reply. I'll check my test results again and look for something in there that references A1C. I get a comprehensive blood work, but there's just a bunch of acronyms, haha!

You're amazing! Keep it up and diet changes are already helping! Thanks.

I honestly don't think we'll know he's died until multiple days later if it doesn't happen within a public place. If it happens with few witnesses, they'll ride that dead pony as far as they can, push through as much as they can "as tRump", before announcing it. Weekend at Bernie's: US Corpacalypse

I mean, shit, I don't even want to be here most days because of the absolute embarrassment that is our government and the corporatocracy this country has become. Most other English-speaking countries would be preferable to traveling to the US, imo.

Dude.

You nailed the reason for this post, actually. After 41-years, I know what to expect from my body. What prompted me to write this was that I was not feeling the same as before and, like you, I'm finding that eating makes me feel worse, not better. It used to just be a dull, malaise feeling. This post is because it feels much more present than before Thanksgiving. Like a head-rush or from drinking too much coffee. However, my coffee intake hasn't changed over the years and I usually am done drinking coffee by 9-10am. Eating or not eating leads to slight nausea, a head-rush feeling (as mentioned), and almost like minor movement is slurred or delayed.

Ruling out illness or some sort of late-onset allergy, and given my family history, it got me thinking that these ill feelings may be the indications that I'm tipping more toward the diabetic side of the scale after striking a balance for so many years. Thank you for your reply!

Sounds like you dodged a bullet (to the foot), so to speak! ;) Thanks for the comment.

Isn't that always how it goes. I had high hopes that generative AI could help find cures to all sorts of diseases and ailments, or links between things we previously wouldn't have linked because of limited scope of info. Then, ya know, capitalism had to do it's thing and now AI is used to replace the jobs we want to be doing so we can more focus on the jobs we hate! I bring this up to say that if you could put in your symptoms, no matter how detached, and get a decent idea where to look, it could have saved you and countless others that doctor lookup time. Maybe one day that'll be a thing we can rely on!