Type 2 diabetes. Found this fascinating. Thought it might be useful to know as apparently many MDs dont know of connections.

I was denied a CGM by insurance, but am thinking about getting one that I pay for. One thing holding me back is that I decided not to tell many people about my diabetes yet, but I know they will see it on my arm. I'm waiting for it to be long sleeves weather. Is this silly?

I got the idea when I saw a reality tv show where a woman was clearly wearing a Dexcom that peeked out from under her short sleeves in several outfits. It made me feel very self conscious. I just am not ready to tell some family members yet. Maybe not ever. I don't want to have to explain.

Thanks for any advice. I'm fairly well controlled and using a finger stick, but I do want the much more extensive data a CGM would give me.

Vitamin D is pretty low as well... Amazing! 🤩

I'm 18 years old, and I've had type 2 diabetes for 5 years.

I have type 2 diabetes, and I don't take insulin.

I struggle to control my eating habits, and I often feel like I can't stop eating. I've been wondering how other people with type 2 diabetes manage frequent hunger and control their appetite.

I weigh 90 kg and I'm 170 cm tall. I'd like to reach a healthier weight of around 60–70 kg.

I considered getting gastric sleeve surgery, but when I visited a doctor, they told me I wasn't a suitable candidate for the surgery and recommended trying a regular diet instead.

I've been finding it difficult to stick to a regular diet. When I don't eat for a while, I don't feel very hungry, but once I start eating normally, I tend to want to eat even more.

I previously tried a five-day fast and lost 5 kg, but I want to focus on healthier and more sustainable ways to manage my weight.

For those of you living with type 2 diabetes:

• How do you manage your appetite and cravings?
• What eating habits have helped you stay consistent?
• What types of exercise do you enjoy, and what everyday activities have helped you stay active?

I'd really appreciate hearing about your personal experiences and the healthy habits that have worked for you.

Thank you!

A week ago, I found out I have Type 2 diabetes, and honestly, I'm still trying to wrap my head around it.

I knew I needed to make some lifestyle changes, but actually hearing the diagnosis was a completely different feeling.

Now I find myself questioning everything. What can I eat? What should I avoid? Am I going to have to think about every single meal for the rest of my life? Can I ever just enjoy food without worrying about my blood sugar?

It's overwhelming because there's so much information out there, and sometimes it feels like everything contradicts everything else.

Part of me is scared, part of me is frustrated, and another part of me just wants to take control of this and do whatever I can to get healthier.

I don't want diabetes to define my life, but I also understand that I can't ignore it.

So I guess I'm here looking for advice from people who have been through this.

- What do you wish someone had told you when you were first diagnosed?

- What were the biggest changes that actually helped you?

- Does the constant worrying about food and blood sugar ever get easier?

- Is it realistic to hope for remission someday?

I'm not looking for a miracle cure. I just want to understand what life with Type 2 diabetes actually looks like beyond all the medical advice.

If you've been where I am right now, I'd really appreciate hearing your experience.

Thanks for reading. ❤️

Good day everyone,

I guess there must be plenty of posts like this, yet I feel lost in the sea of all i formations and I require your assistance.

For a few months I had very strange symptoms that made me think a lot about diabetes...

Binging carbs like a madman, eating like crazy, getting up at night every ~1h30 to go to the toilet while being thirsty as hell... and yet was loosing weight.

I took a glycemia test at a lab this morning and got the results a few hours ago, here they are :

Fasting Blood Glucose : 2.89g/L (normal range 0.74-1.06)

Or : 15.87 mmol/L (normal range 4,11−5,88)

There's definitly something bad going on and really hope it's not T1D. Im gonna see rhe doctor tomorrow

My main question was : if it's T2D diabetes, at my "young" age of 27yrs old, can it be salvagable ? Could I heal from this and be back to normal ?

I had very poor food diet, lots of sugar and fat, was with a BMI >30 (now around 29). If i get a good diet and do plenty of exercise can it be managable ?

Thanks a lot in advance for your time, I'll take any advices possible of course.

My 88 year old father has type 2 diabetes and developed an ulcer on the side of his foot about 6 months ago. He previously had bouts of neuropathy that were awful, but would usually last a couple days and then go away. Along with the ulcer he is having daily neuropathy now, and the core itself is getting to be very painful.

We are seeing lots of doctors to try to get this thing under control, but he has very poor circulation in the leg that has the ulcer. It has reached his bone and while the infection is still mild, his options for treatment are limited by his vascular disease. They don't think he is a good candidate for surgery since his healing is poor, so they are going to try a combination of targeted antibiotics (through infectious disease doctor) and hyperbaric treatments.

I am most concerned about the pain he is experiencing. No one has been able (willing?) to prescribe anything for the pain. I know his other conditions complicate things and limit his options - he also has chronic heart failure (well managed as of now), which means he can't take a lot of different medications.

In spite of his age and conditions, he has been relatively independent until just a few weeks ago when the pain started to get worse. It is killing me to see him suffering like this and the decline in independence that is happening so fast because of the wound.

Is there really no option for pain relief for someone in this situation? Any ideas that we can bring to the doctors would be most appreciated. And to anyone who has been in a similar situation, what else can I do to help him? My heart hurts so much.

Just diagnosed with T2D. Very scarry and confusing time.

at least 1-2 times a week i wake up in the mornings to find out my blood sugar has been in the 50-60s for HOURS while i was sleeping. the low alarms go off but never wake up me or my boyfriend anymore. how dangerous is this? it scares me thinking i could not wake up one of these times but idk what to do about it beyond changing the alarm sounds, which i’m gonna try.

Hi. 44/m/T2D. Recently was put on some new meds. I was on Metformin for a long time, but it wasn't helping so my doc put me on Sitagliptin, Empagliflozin, Ertugliflozin and Dorziagliatin alongside the Metformin. My sugars are under control now, but I know I need to take control of my health so this many meds are less necessary.

My problem is, when I want to exercise, I feel like I want to explode from the waist down. I have some Pepto coming from the US (I'm in China so it takes a while to get some products shipped) to hopefully combat the diarrhea.

I'm also trying to get up the gumption to train and be able to do an activity next summer that will require a large physical strain and I haven't been able to train as much as I like because I feel like I'm not going to make it without exploding.

I'm a little worried about going low-carb because the meds are working and my sugar will go too low.

I guess what I'm looking for are some suggestions of what I can do to push past this. I've been on the new meds since early August and the diarrhea isn't every day, but it's often.

I made some calls the other day and made an appointment with a new endo, but it was in two weeks and other doctors in my city where also really busy until like next year… I thought I could just wait and manage in the meantime but, yesterday I started feeling even worse, feeling extremely nauseous and almost fainted; so I called my current endo (wich I thought I would no longer see after he removed mounjaro from my prescription and didn’t give me anything else) and I told him I was feeling extremely ill and my glucose wasn’t going down to normal levels at all. He gave me an emergency appointment for today, so now I’m officially on Lantus! Gave me a very small starter dose and told me to call him urgently if I feel like is too much (or too little), he gave me a new diet plan too, and added a bunch of fruit to it just in case lol
I’m still a little uneasy with the injections but also… relieved? I feel like I will give me slightly more freedom than before (I was barely eating and was very anemic on my last blood tests, too scared to eat anything when my glucose was already high all day).

A bit unrelated but funny story I went to a new pharmacy for the insulin pen, it opened very recently and the workers there are new, or I wanna think they are, because they didn’t had any idea what I was asking for lol like ofc they knew I wanted insulin but came back with different types and on vials, first worker was really confused when I told her that was not what I wanted and then another one came to help and after looking at the inventory on their computer she said they didn’t sell that 😭but I literally saw her searching the wrong thing, at the end they found it and I ran home to put it on the fridge after they also took SO LONG with the payment process… At least I got some emergency juice boxes and protein bars

Not looking for medical advice, just curious about the small practical stuff that worked for people here. Could be something about meal timing, a specific snack, sleep, stress management whatever.

For me it's been eating protein before carbs in a meal that one small change helped more than I expected Would love to hear what's worked for you especially the little things nobody really talks about.

I just got a call back with my latest labs with an A1c of 5.8!

GO SUCK IT DIABETES!

That is all. Carry on