Hello! I’ve been struggling over the last couple of months with high sugar and just realized Reddit could be a great resource for me.
A little background: I’m a 38 yo woman and was diagnosed with T2 in March of 2018 after having thrush and a yeast infection in the same week. I basically self-diagnosed via google because I knew something had to be wrong with me — sure enough when I had my A1C done at the clinic it was 12. I’d had basically no symptoms in the time leading up to this and I was 6’, 175 lbs - a size 10. I was put on metformin, xigduo, went to diabetes education and learned about carb counting. After rapidly losing weight, they took me off the xigduo and put me on januvia. A few months ago my A1C was 6.3, the best it’s ever been. In the meantime, my sugar (monitored by a CGM) has started to rise. I’m talking AM fasting numbers of 160+ some days, rising to 200 or more before I even eat, and huge spikes sometimes when I eat, for example, a handful of Chex mix. As far as exercise goes, I try to go on walks a few times a day but recently started working full time so haven’t been doing other forms of working out. Walking for 20 min will generally burn my sugar down to an acceptable level (140 or below).
I feel like my meds aren’t working as well as they used to. I have to seriously limit my carbs (less than 20 per meal) to keep from seeing big spikes and this wasn’t the case a year ago when I could eat 45 per meal and be okay. My endo says she’s limited to what drugs she can give me because so many of the T2 meds are made to help you lose weight and she doesn’t want me to lose any more. (I’m now 150 lbs). She’s also given me a script for glimperide and I take it as needed — in the AM if my sugar is high when I wake up, for example. Lots of days I am pretty much trying to eat as little as possible and just get through the day because I get so tired of the same low carb foods.
Does anyone have any similar experiences? Can anyone tell me what other drugs I should research and ask her about? The last time I saw her she prescribed me Actos to take at night to avoid the high morning reading I was seeing, but I didn’t even pick it up after I saw the ties to bladder cancer. I HATE taking so many drugs but I feel like my pancreas is fucking hopelessly broken.
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