Just diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes.

I was just diagnosed with diabetes. This is all new and pretty scary to me. My dad has diabetes. But he doesn’t manage it well at all. I want to be able to manage my diabetes and have a happy healthy life.

On Sunday I care across a box of stuff I had. I went through it and found my moms old test kit (it’s six years old). I decided to test my blood glucose. It was 422. Not knowing if that was bad. I decided to look it up. I was very shocked at how high it was. Trying not to panic, I went to bed. In the morning I decided to test it again. It was 355. I was very scared. I called my brother who is a nurse and talked to him. He told me to go to urgent care, and that when test kits get old they can give wrong readings. So I went there. They did a test there and it was 298. They gave me a prescription for met-forman and sent me on my way. I started the meds that evening. One that night and two on Tuesday.

I had to wait until Wednesday to be seen by my doctor. I went to my appointment and they did an A1C test on me. I was informed that my A1C was 9.8 and that I had diabetes. He gave me two new prescriptions that I will start on Saturday because the pharmacy was out of one of them (met-formin has been a nightmare. Constant diarrhea and stomach pain). I’m hoping the new meds won’t be as bad.

This whole ordeal has me very scared and confused. If there is any advice I can get from this group. I would greatly appreciate it.

I know it’s not the end of the world or even close to the worst on this group. But I know diabetes causes kidney damage and I already have oxalate kidney stones. So that is also a major concern.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.