Well, I'll just be blunt and say that from this end of the internet, it looks to me as if you have diabetes. Your symptoms are certainly consistent with diabetes and you do have several risk factors.
I also just want to speak
against this idea that a type 1 said early in the thread: "Your symptoms are more of a hypoglycemic than they are of someone with diabetes. The jittery feeling of being low is usually associated with someone on insulin or medication for diabetes. If you are truly a type two, your symptoms probably would not include low blood sugar."
Type two diabetics
can experience the symptoms of low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) at actual blood levels that could only be described as hyp
erglycemia (high blood sugar). Regardless of the levels of glucose in the blood, if the cells are not getting the glucose they need, the body does not function properly. The brain, muscles, and other organ tissues are trying to work without being able to use all that glucose floating freely in the blood stream. If you are very insulin resistant you might have the same symptoms of hypoglycemia--like an adrenaline surge-- that a type 1 or a normal person might not have until in the 40/ mg/L. So an uncontrolled type 2 may have those symptoms at, say, 180 instead of 40. Yes type two can get that adrenaline surge with the pounding heart, sweating, pallor, jitteriness, shakeiness.
MTmama, that same Walmart where this happened will have metformin, the most commonly used medicine for type 2 diabetes for just $4 for a month's supply. If you have Type 2 and can get control of it, you can save having to buy this Snickers rescue bars and the antibiotics as well.
I could have written you post before I was diagnosed. I experienced all those things you've told us about and more. I even remember having problems while being in Walmart. Back in those days I carried candy in my pocket, which of course helped make me feel better momentarily, but in reality it was only adding to my problems. I never was feeling actually good before getting diagnosed and getting my blood glucose down. Tell me, does this happen to you? You pee before leaving home, then whenever you get to Walmart or wherever you go to the toilet there right away, then when before you leave the store you go to the toilet again, when you get home you dash inside to go pee once more? I don't know, maybe you aren't as bad off as I was before diagnosis, but believe me, I knew where every public toilet was!
Oh and that headache? Does that sometimes take hours to go away after you've had an episode like the Walmart one?
