Chronic fatigue syndrome

Hello everyone, I have been in DM1 for 28 years, and I can only and I want to talk about my personal experience as a patient, I have no professional relationship with health sciences.

I am written ideas, they are not advice, they are personal conclusions of all these years of illness.

Diabetes is a disease that directly affects the way of managing energy in our body, therefore, it is normal for many people to be lacking in energy and affects usphysicsand mentally.

The relationship that one maintains with diabetes changes over time, if the body changes as your relationship with diabetes will not change.

As you indicate in your messages, you are diabetic but you can have other diseases.

Last year I experienced an episode for several months, in which I did not know my body and my relationship with diabetes was totally different and worrying, I visited doctors, clinics, clinics,I askedHelp associations and even wrote to this forum.Although everythingHe returnedto normalafterFrom the tsunamí, the reflection was long and tried to analyze causes without any certainty.So, I decided a series of changes in my life, they are not extraordinary, (drinking more water, modifying food, increasing rest and caring for breathing).In my case, the food change can be summarized exclusively in reducing the farinaceans.

I do not know what will happen to me tomorrow, but today with those changes of life, including food change, with 49 years I feel better and less tired than with 39 and with 29.

I only expose what I have personally lived in my body, tired of going to the endocrinology consultation, having an analysis with the HBA1C always in the range 6-7, and before my constant confession that I felt tired and without energy, not to get any response, only that my analytics was fine.

Greetings and encouragement to all, we know that having diabetes is never simple.

If you look on the Internet you can see "another" group of people that SFC has.

Tiredness has multiple, not to say multiple (and possible several acting at the same time) discarding factors and causing it.Having dB1 ... adrenal exhaustion by stress, cardiac suffering, etc.

It is usually idiopathic for that reason, but I already tell you the most normal thing is that it is a hormonal cause (the whole body is directed by hormones), others say that it is virical etc. etc.

Hello everyone, as far as I know the causes of fatigue in DM are multifactorial and some enter synergy: the high variability seems to induce a metabolic imbalance that requires the body to “work more” to maintain controlled glucose which causes that fatigue.On a muscle level a diabetic or with the most exact controls has the balance of glycogen, lipolysis, potassium proteins etc.To this we must add chronic inflammation that seems to be one of the most common causes that produce fatigue.There are ways to lower chronic inflammation, but it is essential to avoid peaks and have variability below 30 although the A1C is greater.We usually consume, at least in DM1 as it is in every autoimmune disease, a lot of vitamin D and the DM1 D deficit is typical because it is essential for the immunological system and under microinflammation, the organism is in a permanent battle overcrowsing D whose contribute contribute to a negative feedback to fatigue.

In addition, and although there are more causes of electrolytes, the hormonal mismatch sometimes by renin-angiotensin-aldosterone that leads to the states of mild hypertension associated with atherosclerosis and peripheral vascular microangiopathy also causes added fatigue.Maintaining blood pressure rather below 120/80 I think it is fundamental.

My opinion is that the key and focus is the variability within a reasonable A1C without going crazy.It would be better for example an A1C of 6.5 with variability of 28 than a 6 with variability of 40. and from there minimize what can be silent and monitor the D and of course rest of minerals and nutrients.

All the best

@Ricki21 Yes, although the subject is very influenced later, there is more factors but the same managing that manages to live with some quality and well -being.

By the way I take the opportunity to ask how about freestyle 3?They serve you in your community?

All the best

@pinkman said:

@Ricki21Yes, although the subject is very influenced later, there is more factors but the same managing that manages to live with some quality and well -being.

By the way I take the opportunity to ask how about freestyle 3?They serve you in your community?

All the best

Main inconvenience: the first (I go for the third) stopped working when he lacked 1 day and a half to finish;The second failed when in theory they had 18 hours of life.Suddenly the Pi sensorErde the connection (signal loss) and stop working.The worst thing is that to start a new sensor I have to uninstall the app and install it again.I already asked for the first substitution to Abbott and they didn't put any problem.I will have to talk to them if I put the same thing with me again.

This sensor is one of the best we have and is scheduled to work with a pump.I cannot carry bomb and suddenly find out that the sensor has "lost the signal" and does not work.I would give me a panic attack ... 😵

@Ricki21 Thanks for the info, that I understand that it is more precise, something on the other hand that should not be very difficult because free 2 has a prediction level such that an old fortune teller giving storm omens for the flight of a bird.

But it is better nothing although sometimes I don't know.

I will see if I can change to 3, I am even valuing the Dexcom.I'm going to study it.

Thank you!

Hello everyone, I have been in that situation of fatigue, not exactly chronic because I have ups and downs, and apparently it has something to do with hypothyroidism, they have increased the dose of Eutirox and I am doing better.I'm training to participate in a marathon and long runs are harder for me than series and weight training.I also do better in the afternoon than in the morning.It is always better to make small changes to find out the cause and not drastic changes that disorient us even more.I hope you find the cause of the problem.

I totally get ,so many of us with long-term controlled Type 1 live pretty normal lives, and that link between our diabetes and chronic fatigue syndrome  just doesn’t jump out at first. It’s such a good question, and I don’t think it’s talked about enough either.