Oddly enough I’ve had two conversations lately with medical professions about food cravings and diabetes.
The first was with my pump trainer. She was going over my logs and noticed that I wasn’t eating as much, EVEN on my bad days.
I said, it drives me nuts, but when my blood sugar is high, I crave sugar. I’ve finally learned that fat and protein makes the craving stop, and don’t go into to this massive blood sugar highs.
The yesterday, the sleep doctor was telling me that she was worried about a diabetic friend who claims that she is controlling her diabetes, but is eating sugar and has diabetic neuropathy.
I told her about the uncontrollable sugar cravings.
It’s horrible — pump trainer said it was normal, and that normal people don’t have them. That’s sad in a way because they don’t have a clue how we feel. And worse yet, we can’t explain it, and people dump on us because we have to give in.
Diabetes sucks, if you didn’t now that already.