When You’re a Fat Woman, Everything is Diabetes

Or: my first visit to an endocrinologist.

Shaunta Grimes
The Feel Better Project
9 min readApr 24, 2024

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Photo by Sweet Life on Unsplash

It’s been a month since I woke up one Sunday with my heart racing.

I spent three days in the hospital. Learned my heart is nice and healthy, despite the troponin-inducing 190 heart rate.

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Shaunta Grimes
The Feel Better Project

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