I'm pretty sure I have diabetes, I'm scared, please tell me if this sounds it out!?
I'm a young adult, and just found out that you can get diabetes type 1 at my age, 16, well to start it all off, I AM a hypochodriac and worry about ma...
I’m a young adult, and just found out that you can get diabetes type 1 at my age, 16, well to start it all off, I AM a hypochodriac and worry about many diseases but I’m pretty sure of this one. First of all I was a the store yesterday and I got very confused and was kind of waltzing around trying to get my stuff and return to my mom’s cart and half the time I couldn’t even remember what I had just said, I’m pretty sure this is all hypoglycemia then I came home and told my parents I was feeling REALLY funny and told them what had happened and they just told me to relax so I had a glass of juice and tryed to calm down. Today it’s easter and I had a big breakfast and dinner a few hours after and ended up being really really thirsty after I ate a lot, I had beans, a roll and falafel which are chickpea patties, and more water. I didn’t have increased urination which I know is one of the symptoms… but I did have increased thrist after I ate all of that and after I had desert I felt funny as well. And right now my vision is kind of blurred not to the point that I can’t see but to the point where long distant things are a bit blurry. How blurry is the diabetic symtoms supposed to be? I’m so scared I have type one diabetes! I am going to have a doctors appointment either tomorrow, or tonight if I get to scared and it gets worse I may go to urgent care. My dad says that your ankles would be swollen if you seriously had diabetes, and mine aren’t at all but that isn’t on any of the symptom sites. Anyway, please tell me if these sound like serious symtoms of type 1. I’m so scared that I might have it, I just need some reassurence that everythings going to b e okay. Please!! :[[
Also my arm has been tingly on and off for the past few days, this worries me even more because I know its a symtomp as well!
The symptoms you describe do not sound like diabetes. I think it’s all part of your hypochondria. Diabetes at 16 would be quite dramatic. You’d be very very sick – and sick often. It is not subtle in a teenager. Tingling from diabetes comes from long term high blood sugar, so the tingling is not diabetes related.
1. you are a teenager not a young adult
2. you are an admitted hypochondriac
3. diabetes is not a pick and choose the symptoms we want to believe in
4. diabetes takes sometimes years to develop it is not necessarily overnight
go see your doctor and get an Rx for chill pills
anything is possible…quit worrying and go to the doctor and get a glucose tolerance test…that will tell you for sure
Cyberchondria is a colloquial term for hypochondria in individuals who have researched medical conditions on the Internet. The media and the Internet often contribute to hypochondria, as articles, TV shows and advertisements regarding serious illnesses such as cancer and multiple sclerosis (some of the common diseases hypochondriacs think they have) often portray these diseases as being random, obscure and somewhat inevitable. Inaccurate portrayal of risk and the identification of non-specific symptoms as signs of serious illness contribute to exacerbating the hypochondriac’s fear that they actually have that illness.
Your fine
Take care
Tin