During the weeks prior to my son's diagnosis he was drinking huge amounts of milk. Craving it I think. He could go through a gallon a day. (He was 9 not 19).
I read of another community member who said the same thing. "Milk was the only thing that quenched her thirst".
Anyone else experience this?
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Oh my gosh, me too! Before I was diagnosed, several glasses of milk was the only thing that could keep me from drinking water for five minutes... if that makes any sense at all. I remember asking for milk and my dad jokingly saying "Will you drink it all?" Yeah right! He was just teasing, but its funny that there was hardly a chance at all that I wouldn't drain it anywy ;)
Before I went into the ICU this past October, for DKA, i was drinking over 1 gallon of milk a day. Now that my blood sugars are in better check, 1 gallon of milk lasts me a week, easily!
Ya know, it's kind of funny, but I crave milk all the time. What's weird about it is the fact that, not only do I not even LIKE milk, but I'm lactose intolerant! And yet I drink at least a class of milk because I get the oddest craving for it.
I never craved milk before diagnosis the only thing that quenched my thirst was gatorade or ice tea.
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could it have something to do with the fat/protein/calcium in the milk?
before diagnosis i didn't drink any more milk than usual probably because I have never been able to drink milk without food... the taste gets to me.
but Cran-Raspberry Juice... drinking about half a gallon in a day on top of the gallon of water a day! It was ridiculous. And I was NOT a water drinker, so it was the first sign something wasn't quite right.
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I used to drink loads and loads of orange juice.... and I looooooved orange pop.... not sooo much anymore. ;P
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Milk is everything your body craves when it is dieing from diabetes- water, sugar, and protein. Not that that mattered though bc their body can't use it. It certainly didn't literally quench their thirst though... If it did- they wouldn't drink a gallon a day.
For me I just drank water, a gallon a day, same thing really, my body was starving to death and I was a walking stick figure, but at least my stomach was full.
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That is an interesting thought. Right before my son we diagnosed in December that is all that he would constantly drink. I even said to him now that he is being treated for his diabetes he does not enjoy drinking milk anymore. Good perception. I never put the two of them together. I just put the excessive thirst to the diabetes.
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That's interesting. I didn't crave milk, I was craving juice and drinking tons of it before I was diagnosed
That's funny...in the process of being diagnosed... my doctor asked me if i had anything to eat or drink before taking blood work....and i had to tell him i had 4 glasses of chocolate milk right before i got there...i never liked milk either...and they were like 20oz glasses haha
I definitely crave milk when my sugar is high. I wonder if any studies have looked into this...
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Laura I definitely crave milk when my sugar is high. I wonder if any studies have looked into this...
same here. if my levels are even a little outta range, I crave milk..not chocolate milk but 2% regular milk. not always, but a good 99% of the time..and once I get a taste of it, I'm drinking no less than two glasses..and that's only cuz I force myself to stop.
I remember about a week or two before i went into the hospital, I was watching a movie and I drank A gallon of orange juice before the movie was over. All i would drink is orange juice, orange juice, orange juice!