How I Deal with Insulin Resistance (part two)
Hello, my friends! I think it's time to write the second part of this post. It was a little bit difficult for me to write about those things, especially because this is not over and my condition it's still not perfect. This is gonna be a long and hard fight.
I promised to write more about Insulin Resistance and how I confirmed I have it. The hardest thing was I didn't actually know what the IR was.
Well, after I saw my doctor and she told me that I have to do some further tests, I was so scared. I didn't have the courage to go immediately and check myself. I waited for two weeks. I don't know why! It was stupid. I knew the result will be positive but I couldn't go and do that test. I decided not to tell my parents about this. And I did the worst thing I could. I just kept everything inside of myself. I didn't want to talk to anybody. Honestly, I didn't even know what I am dealing with.
I stopped eating sweet things. At first, I forced myself to eat only one sweet thing a day. That was really difficult because I was sugar addicted. It was hard for me not to eat sweet things because of the level of insulin in my blood, but I didn't know the reason of my hunger at that moment. I was feeling so bad without chocolate. The feeling was like I had some constant tickling somewhere in my body, but I didn't know exactly where. Sometimes I didn't even eat normal food. I just took some sweet things and that was my lunch. So, it was really hard to stop with those habits. I started to read more and more about Insulin Resistance and I found out a lot of new information.
Insulin Resistance is a hormonal and metabolic disorder. It's provoked by an abnormal level of insulin. Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas. His function is to help our cells to use glucose from our blood to produce energy. If we eat food that is full of sugar, we provoke the pancreas to make more and more insulin. If the level of glucose is high in our blood, the level of insulin will grow as well. By the time, our cells get tired of a high concentration of insulin, so they become resistant. They simply stop answering and insulin can't go inside and help them make energy from the glucose. The next thing that happens is that the level of glucose becomes high, so the level of insulin grows as well. It's a circle. In the end, the pancreas stops producing insulin because of this. It just gets tired of making more and more insulin every day. This is the moment when diabetes comes. Your pancreas doesn't produce insulin and your body desperately needs it. The level of glucose is so high because there is no insulin and if you want to survive you need to inject insulin through your stomach.
Insted of entering inside of muscle cells and become energy for our body, glucose enters inside of fat cells and you gain more and more kilos. It's dangerous because this can lead to other kinds of illnesses and fat can be located even around your intestines and other organs. This kind of fat is visceral fat. You can get a heart attack or stroke.
So, I went to do the OGTT test and check the level of glucose and insulin in my blood. The test is a little bit fucked up. You have to stay hungry at least 12 hours before this. The best thing is to eat at 8 in the night and to go to bed soon. In the morning you can go around 8 and give your blood for the analysis. They will first measure the level of glucose and insulin and then they will give you a glass of glucose. It's so so so sweet and it's hard to drink it up, but you have to do that quickly. For me, it was nice at the beginning because I am a sugar-addicted. When I reached half of the glass I felt like I will vomit. It was too sweet. Then they measured the level of glucose and insulin again after one hour and after two hours. I had to lay down during this test because the organism becomes so week and you feel dizzy.
They said will get the results in the afternoon and It was true. I was at my job when they sand me an email. At first, I didn't know what those numbers mean and I had to google it. I found normal references for insulin and glucose and compared them with mine. The level of glucose was ok, but the level of insulin was too high. It was clear I have IR.
I was desperate. The whole day I was thinking about it. I knew this will be the result but I still felt bad. I called my doctor and made my appointment. It was clear I have to start with some therapy and change my life habits.
This is all for now. I will continue with this post and explain how I changed my life and habits, what I am eating now, how do I live and what I am doing to stop diabetes before it came. Thanks for reading.