Don't want to alarm anyone with that headline, but some friends of mine have diabetes (have had it for years) and luckily, I don't. (Or at least didn't at my last check up, despite my weight problems.)
One of them was reading a blog entry of mine where I described the sensations I associated with going into ketosis. I likened it to "hitting the wall" in a marathon race, where your body has now used all of its glycogen fuel and you're going on will power until the body can open up the fat stores. But I was told that the symptoms I gave (massive "hunger" pangs that come from nowhere, sudden cravings, shaking, nausea, etc) were more like a hypoglycemic shock. He suggested I get my blood checked.
Now, truth be told, I never got into the gory details with anyone else on the program about what happens to them when they go into ketosis. I just agreed with everyone else that "when it happens, you'll know" and started checking my urine with the ketostix. But my friends comment has me worried now.
Am I the only person going through those symptoms? (I could be undiagnosed diabetic maybe.) Or are these symptoms common place when going into ketosis?
One of them was reading a blog entry of mine where I described the sensations I associated with going into ketosis. I likened it to "hitting the wall" in a marathon race, where your body has now used all of its glycogen fuel and you're going on will power until the body can open up the fat stores. But I was told that the symptoms I gave (massive "hunger" pangs that come from nowhere, sudden cravings, shaking, nausea, etc) were more like a hypoglycemic shock. He suggested I get my blood checked.
Now, truth be told, I never got into the gory details with anyone else on the program about what happens to them when they go into ketosis. I just agreed with everyone else that "when it happens, you'll know" and started checking my urine with the ketostix. But my friends comment has me worried now.
Am I the only person going through those symptoms? (I could be undiagnosed diabetic maybe.) Or are these symptoms common place when going into ketosis?