I am a 30 YO guy who is recently diagnosed with T2 diabetes. I've been overweight most of my life so I've been monitoring my blood glucose and I knew I was prediabetic starting 3~4 years ago. I was on keto diet for couple months at a time, on and off, as I was trying to reduce my insulin resistance but since December last year, I had some other issue personal issue that made me gain 20 lb or so since November and now I am finally diagnosed with T2 as my A1c was 7.2 and fasting glucose was in 140s.
My physician prescribed 500 mg Metformin twice a day with a meal but it doesn't seem like it's working. I'm 3 weeks into taking it and I don't regularly check my blood glucose but I check every other day, 4~5 after a meal and it doesn't seem like my blood glucose goes down. I've randomly checked my blood glucose several dozen times in the past 3 weeks and it was never below 100 except once.
Just last month, when I wasn't taking Metformin, my fasting was in the average of 140~150 and close to 200 after a meal (and stay up there 180~190) for several hours. The reason why I went to see my doctor was that I saw a significant delay in blood glucose reduction; I'd have a meal at like 3 PM and check my glucose level at like 10 PM and it'd still be like 170 to 180ish and in the morning, it'd be like 140. So I got scared and went to see my doctor.
My primary concerns are, it seems like Metformin isn't effective even at double dosage (I've tried like 3 times by doubling up my dosage) AND my diabetes seems to be progressing fast. I just checked my blood glucose 3 hours after a meal and it was in 220 (which I've never seen previously).
I know I'm rambling here, but I'm just scared.
I wonder if staying home all day and being sedentary is making my D2 progress very fast...
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