The Diabetic Hangover (Pitfalls of eating way too much sugar)
What's A Diabetic Hangover?
Before being diagnosed a T2D, I would occasionally wake feeling really crap. Like I had a boozy hangover.
I'd sit on the side of the bed and not be able to open my eyes properly. I could hear. I could speak, but I would not be able to raise myself to standing without severe grogginess.
Walking downstairs safely was a serious concern. What the hell was going on? I knew it wasn't an alcohol hangover because I hadn't had any alcohol. I had given up drinking by then.
But these symptoms precisely matched a boozy hangover.
So rather than describing the symptoms of a diabetes hangover, because they pretty much match a normal one. I will take you through the process of finally working out what the damn thing actually was. The first time this happened to me, I was concerned that I had caught a bug or I had developed an actual illness.
What we need to remember here, is that all this was pre my T2D diagnosis. I was still stuffing copious amounts of sweet stuff into me and having a pretty unhealthy diet. It took me around a week to realise that following a big binge on sugary stuff, I would rise the following day with these hangover symptoms.
It was after a session searching on the Interweb, I happened upon the term 'Diabetic Hangover'. The symptoms closely matched mine. I had an answer. I had self diagnosed.
Go on... Ask the question. "Did you cut back on the sugar, to stop this from happening"?
The honest answer is NO!.... Not much anyway. However hard I tried, I could not stop these binging sessions. I did delay them for a day or two, but at that time I did not eliminate them.....
I always gave in to one binge after another.
I am going to use a term that I have used before. But I will be using it a lot.
I Have a Sugar Addiction.....
At this time I had no idea that anybody could have a sugar addiction. A Drug Addiction. A Smoking Addiction. An Alcohol Addiction. YES. But a Sugar Addiction? No!
