Fed up of feeling ill

[Liz!]

Well... I had those symptoms before I tried animal insulin. Animal insulin is the only natural insulin in the world taken by diabetics - human and analogue insulins are made by gentically modified bacteria in vats of yeast or beef. There are many things different about human and analogue insulins which could mean some people do not get on with them.

I was tired, exhausted, felt a feeling of 'unreality' and had pains in my legs. i lost my hypo warning symptoms, and have actually never got them back, but many people do on animal. I couldn't straighten two of my fingers. i had all sorts of weird symptoms.

After about 3 days on animal insulin I was back to normal. So no, those symptoms are not normal for diabetics, but are common in those who do not do well on human and analogue insulin.

 

[chrismbee]

I right in thinking that these symptoms are not normal for diabetics?

Unlikely to get any answers to that question here, I'm afraid - there aren't many "normals" on this forum, diabetic or otherwise, in my experience.
Stick with me and we'll pave the way for sanity in an otherwise crazy community

(this doesn't require any input from you, klocky!)

 

[margie]

Natalie just brought this thread to my attention so I have had a read.

If the Drs think you are imagining things - it might help to take a friend or family member with you who can tell the Dr that they can see a change in you.

It's possible that the anti-deps are making you feel spaced out.

You say that you have had thyroid tests - I have found that mine is borderline in the winter months but fine in the summer - do your symptoms vary over the year? The other thing I read some while back is that whilst there is a designated range where thyroid function is considered normally - some people within those boundaries could benefit from treatment. It was a magazine article some time back, the consultant in the article was of the belief that if you had a goitre (don't know if you have) then it was best to treat the symptoms rather than go on the apparently normal borderline results. Maybe you could try a google search and see if anything is out there for you.

Ask you Dr to feel your neck, a neighbour of my parents was told there wasn't a problem till a Dr felt her neck and discovered she had a goitre growing inwards - and which sometimes pressed on her wind pipe. Its incredibly rare but easy to diagnose if they feel your neck but virtually impossible if they don't.

 

[Natalie123]

Hi Margie, thanks for taking a look. I might take my partner along next time but I don't like him to see me getting upset about my health - it upsets him too so we don't talk about it much. Maybe a friend would be better. I did ask my GP if I might need treatment for the tyroid so we are keeping an eye on it. I haven't got a goitre - as far as I know that is! The strange thing is that my symptoms fit with an overactive thyroid but the tests are borderline underactive (i think) which doesn't fit my symptoms at all ...