How do I get past my bitterness with previous doctors, trainers, dieticians unable to help?

rheddmobile

Re: insulin and diabetes. I’m a type 2 diabetic and I can give you some insights into this. You aren’t wrong that in type 1, and in extreme cases type 2, it’s possible to ingest food which your body can’t metabolize because of lack of insulin. That actually happened to me before I was diagnosed - I had an unrelated medical situation (ovarian tumor), and my cortisol levels, which block the action of insulin, shot way up, so for about a month until they figured out what was going on with me I was operating without enough insulin.

Trust me, if you had anything similar going on, you would notice. During this month I continually felt like I was starving, my extremities hurt, and I could barely get out of bed. I ate entire bags of peppermint candy trying to stop from feeling hungry. And I lost 25 lbs in a month.

This level of metabolic disorder also tends to show up on blood tests. When I presented at the ER at the end of the month my blood glucose was 272 and my a1c was 11. Normal is under 100 and about 5. The only reason the diabetes wasn’t caught earlier is that at the beginning of my symptoms when routine bloodwork was run, the doctor didn’t bother mentioning the results!

Anyway, for healthy people, there is some relationship between insulin levels and appetite, but it’s fairly minor. A healthy body does a good job of keeping things level.