I'm devastated guys.
I went into my endo today expecting the same feedback as usual; keep doing what you're doing, lose a little more weight, watch the cholesterol, etc. For the record, I was diagnosed with T2 back in 2012. It took me a couple years to come out of denial and another few years to get control over my A1C, but these days I am doing pretty well... or so I thought. With calorie counting, carb restriction, and daily exercise, I dropped 50 lbs in the past few months. Everyone on my healthcare team was expecting great improvement in my insulin resistance with so much weight loss, but it has stayed pretty much the same. My endo took one look at my new weight, diet, meds, and exercise regimen and said we need to test my antibodies. I had these tests done a few years back, but she wants to run them again. If they come back negative we will keep running them on a yearly basis until something shows, and then we adjust my med regimen.
I know I have a lot to be grateful for. My honeymoon phase has lasted well over a decade, and and this rate I can easily expect a couple more years of pancreatic function before I have to start insulin. I didn't have to go through DKA to learn about it, and thanks to this community I have an idea of what to expect. Of all the autoimmune disorders, I'll have one of the rare few where the symptoms are in my control (sort of). Honestly, I'm not that surprised since my diabetes has never "behaved" like T2 should, and it took months to find T2 medications that seemed to work. In some crazy sense, I even feel a bit glad that I will have a community of peers since it's quite lonely to be a T2 under 30. Nevertheless, I'm crushed. I thought I had everything under control after years of struggling. I thought that with enough work (aka diet and exercise) I could lessen the severity of my diabetes. Now my future will only get worse as my pancreas continues to die, and there isn't a thing I can do about it. Pardon my mellow-dramatic ranting, but I had to get this off my chest.
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