TL;DR After being worried about diabetes my entire adult life, this past year I made positive lifestyle changes, and NOW I get the diagnosis.
So nearly all of the older women on one side of my family have Type 2, and I've kind of felt like it was a ticking time bomb. (I'm 38F.) I've been very overweight my whole life, and a couple of years ago I decided for lots of reasons to make positive lifestyle changes, and though I've yo-yo-ed a bit, I've lost weight such that I'm at my lowest since college. (NOT to suggest I'm at a healthy weight yet - I'm currently about 20 pounds away from being "overweight" rather than "obese.")
Last year around this time I had my annual bloodwork and was in pre-diabetes range, 6.5. Well, I thought, I'm doing the right things so this will be okay!
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I start noticing some suspicious symptoms. I thought I might just be being paranoid, but those are symptoms I've always been on the lookout for, so I bought a blood glucose meter... 260. :(
Anyway, got bloodwork and now I'm at 8.5. My doctor was so confused, since I'm healthier than I was last year. That said, my diet was NOT low carb, just generally healthy. I am a bit fan of oatmeal and rice, for example, and hadn't cut out sugar if it was within my calorie range.
I find myself... disappointed and a little scared, but optimistic. Just started on metformin and am on day 3 of a low carb diet. Which I am finding very challenging, but I've noticed a small drop (hovering today around 215 as opposed to 260). I'm just crossing my fingers that between that and the metformin I can get it under control.
My grandmother, who (and I'm barely exaggerating about this) ate nothing but ice cream and cornbread, lived to be 86 though had very bad neuropathy. I have decided I'm NOT going to be her.
Mostly I just wanted to tell this story to someone who would understand!
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