All throughout college I was sick, stomach infections, urinary tract infections, throat infections. I started fainting the next day whenever I pulled an all nighter during finals. I'm 26 and finally after years of being chronically ill, I was sent to the endocrinologist. He sent for a lot of lab tests, one of those was the glucose tolerance test. The results came back in late December 2019 and it turns out I have type II Diabetes, but I don't need insulin (yet).
I've been trying to get my diet right ever since. The quarantine helped the "sugar detox" because I wasn't able to go out and buy sugary snacks. I have been trying so so hard. But I still can't seem to get it right. Sometimes my sugar gets so low when I'm exercising that I feel like I'm going to die. Some other times it's higher than it should be. Some other times when I exercise my blood pressure goes high and I get all sweaty and nauseous.
I'm 26 and I feel so sad and defeated, my health just seems to not be right regardless of what I do. I don't even understand why I have Diabetes in the first place. Mom raised me and my brothers with a very healthy way of eating, and I have mostly followed that way of eating all my life. I have never been obese, I drank alcohol moderately for like two years before deciding to quit it, I don't drink soda, I don't eat fast food, I don't drink sugary coffee, sweet tea or juices, I'm not vegetarian but I don't eat a lot of meat since I don't particularly like it. As a child and teen I enjoyed sweet snacks every once in a while but nothing crazy or out of the ordinary, l have friends who are basically alcoholics, have a horrible diet and habits and they don't have Diabetes or seemingly any other disease. I feel like my body is charging me a very premature and pricey bill for things that others get away with for free. I can only imagine that I might already be dead if I lived a party life.
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