Suds, I had totally forgotten and did not remember until I got to your last post just above, that once upon a time I did have some sort of discomfort in the chest that came and went for months. Trouble is, now I cannot even remember what it was like. I told my doctor about it at a regular appointment and he ran an EKG. The EKG looked normal. I do remember that after that appointment I never even experienced the discomfort again. Weird, eh? Some sort of placebo effect?--tell the healer and get instantly healed? Probably that really is what it happended for me, because I've had other things that were niggling at me healthwise for months and then after I told my doc it never happened again.
I don't think my chest discomfort was anything I'd describe as pain, and certainly not burning.
Also, YES, I do have trouble with hunger now and then. When my BGs run too high consistently I will get the hunger several times a day, especially about 15-20 minutes after eating when I still have food in my stomach(!), so it has nothing to do with not feeling full. People who have not experienced it probably find it puzzling to hear that I could feel both excruciatingly famished and stuffed full at the same time....I imagine this is an occasional feature of diabetes that will be figured out and probably will be addressable some day in the future. I wonder if it is something to do with the persistence of or the lack of phase 1 insulin release or some of the other hormones involved in digestion.
By keeping my BGs under control AND eating low carb, I have seen that hunger mitigated to a much milder event and much less frequently. When I do get that hunger even mildly, it has invariably been when I've eaten more carbohydrates than I ought to have for several days in a row.
What to do about it? Well, in my case, obviously I think I need to eat low carb and get the BG generally under control. When first diagnosed and also at a time when I fell off the wagon, so to speak, I just had to make myself hold on through it. It will subside if I
don't feed it. In fact feeding it can lead to just another intense round of hunger, calling you to eat again and getting hungry again. Tell yourself you will hold on through it until that very episode of hunger goes away. It will go away. Steel yourself up and hold on! The more you resist against that senseless hunger while at the same time getting the BGs down and eating low carb, the more the hunger will subside, if you are like me. You have all my sympathy. I know it is very hard.
