No Cut-sies.
Diabetes has a way of “cutting to the front of the line” so to speak, when it comes to your health. We’re always prioritizing diabetes, and caving to its little tantrums that demand attention. Lows pull us in acutely, and can cost us exercise, food freedom, and brain activity. Highs do the same, messing up the best-laid plans. Because diabetes is often the squeakiest wheel and there’s that whole matter-of-life-or-death thing to take care of, it’s not surprising we often look at our health exclusively through a diabetes lens.
When you’re thirsty, you assume it’s because you’re high. When you’re tired and lightheaded, it must be a low. If you’ve gained weight, it must be insulin resistance. But just because this high maintenance disease is usually the cause doesn’t mean that it is. Those symptoms I just listed could be easily caused by (in order) actually being thirsty, actually being tired or hungry, and cupcakes. Or cookies. Or those freaking delicious cake pops at Starbucks. Ahem….digression. Sorry.
With diabetes, it’s really easy to neglect other parts of our health, because we have a likely (and often guilty) culprit that’s around all the time, usually causing trouble of some sort. It’s only when you test or look at your CGM and realize hhhm, numbers are good and have been for a few hours, what am I really feeling right now? that you can even consider it being something other than the Big D. Diabetes is so often taking up so much of our mental capacity that we forget there might be easy, or even urgent fix that our body needs.
Like sleep. Of which I have not had enough of. In like, two months. Happy Friday everyone! Hope you get a chance to pay attention to something other than diabetes this weekend.
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I am always surprised when I’m just “normal people thirsty” instead of “high blood sugar thirsty.”