Hi everyone. First post on mumsnet so I hope its formatted correctly and in the right place.
I have worried for a long time about whether I have diabetes. To cut a long story short, I'm only 25 and I'm not over weight (size 6, 5 ft 4 very active with active job). I used to have an office based job after I left school at 18 where I worked shifts but could always eat at my leisure. Then I started a new job where I'm a lot more active and do shifts but quite often cannot eat. In my job role it's considered absolutely normal to delay meal times or go without food when hungry for a bit due to the urgent nature of a lot of the work that is done. This is okay, most people manage by eating when they can and I used to.. Now, I have been in the role for nearly two years and absolutely love it except for when I have what I can only describe as a feeling of all the energy leaving my body. It has happened a few times now in situations where I am making myself unsafe if I'm not totally switched on. Usually it's when I haven't eaten but I thought I'd gotten past this by making sure I always have a large meal before I go to work and have plenty of snacks. Most recently, out of nowhere I realised the feeling of energy leaving my body ( feet feel weightless, arms go cold and sweaty, vision goes entirely to darkness, breathing gets shallow ) had come back and next thing I know, I had woken up with my colleagues stood over me in a panic where I'd passed out. I got driven home by one of the people on the next shift and she is diabetic herself and raised this with me so I have started to wonder. I have also noticed that I wake up constantly when in bed to go to wee and sometimes have headaches so bad after sleeping for a short amount of time I wake up with an extreme craving for orange juice and intense thirst. I had the same thing happen again today, where I had cycled into work ( very long bike ride ) & by the time I was in my headache was so bad that I was nearly vomiting. My vision was all over the place, I could barely string a sentence together and I wasnt making full sense talking to my colleagues. One of the girls I was working with took me to mcdonalds and again, after juice and some fries I could literally feel the symptoms melt away and felt back to normal again.
Wtf is this? Is it diabetes or something else? Thanks so much everyone x