r/diabetes_t2

Help, I'm starving. I'm 93% in the healthy zone -70-180 - but all I eat is meat and vegetables and a little dairy - Greek yogurt - and raspberries.

I've been on insulin for 1 1/2 years. And jardiance. I eat a hamburger patty and chicken or chicken vegetables soup every day. In the morning I eat eggs and ham and cheese. And a few sips of a protein milkshake.

What do you suggest I do?

(if you're insulin only like me how is it going? what do you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Are you regularly hungry? )

Hi, I was wanting to ask if y'all think it's okay to go to bed when my blood sugar is around 99 or 90? My A1C is at a 6, I'm taking 500 mg of Metformin twice a day. Do you guys go to bed when your sugar is at 90? I'm just scared of my blood sugar dropping and going into a coma.

What the title says. I got up from my desk to go to lunch, I had had a snack around 4 hours earlier (an apple). This is my usual mealtime schedule but I normally have that snack a bit later, so it's only 3 hours before a meal.

As I was reaching the cafeteria I started to feel like crappy. Like... REALLY crappy. I thought I was going to faint, I was hearing everything as if it was faraway, I was a bit disoriented, super dizzy, and I was DRENCHED in cold sweat. I fear it's hypoglycemia because I feel like I've had in the past when it's happened. Somebody called some paramedics and they laid me down, took my blood pressure (it was normal, as were the other vitals) and took my blood sugar. 240 mg/dL, they said.

I panicked. I haven't had a reading that high since I was diagnosed, when I was in the hospital with an intestinal perforation. My latests A1Cs have been 5.1 and 5.3 (this last one in mid-march). I don't measure my glucose levels everyday anymore, but when I do they're always within normal range for non diabetics.

I had some water, laid down, had a bit of the meat and lettuce I had been served for my lunch, and eventually I felt a bit better enough to walk back to my office (about 2 blocks) and my own glucometer, thinking I would go to the hospital because something must be VERY wrong if I'm having these high readings 4 hours after eating and specially when my highest reading after super carby meals have been 160mg/dL tops.

I get back to my office and I finger prick on my own monitor (which is very reliable, I check when I get my regular lab bloodwork and it's always about the same as the value the lab says). No more than 30-35 mins could have passed between that original reading and my own. It says 85 mg/dL. I measure again in 2 different fingers. 88 and 87 mg/dL. I've been retesting every 30 minutes (this was about 90 minutes ago) and it's been between 90 and 99 (I did eat more in between, a lowish carb pudding that is 10g of carbs per serving).

Is it possible that the paramedics' glucometer gave off a bad reading? It could be that my hand was dirty or something else weird happened, because honestly none of this makes sense, specially that I felt a bit better *After* eating even tho I didn't eat something high in carbs, but surely if I felt off because my blood glucose was well above the 200 mark I wouldn't have had a significant improvement after ingesting food.

I'm gonna try to make an appointment with my doctor ASAP and I reached out to my dietitian (with whom I have an open whatsapp communication, with my doctor I need an appointment) who says it sounds like the paramedics had a bad reading and because it didn't match my symptoms they should have re-tested. I'm just nervous and distrusting my own meters, and I'm not sure what to believe.

Hi - a brief back story, I was diagnosed as pre diabetic so long ago, I cannot even remember when! It was at least 18 years ago. Sadly I ignored this, continued eating absolute garbage constantly and of course it got worse and turned into full blown diabetes eventually. The last 14 or so months, I made a drastic change to my diet - I mean going from eating anything I wanted like donuts, pizza, fast food you name it, to watching my carbs and cutting out flour and sugar. I would say now I get no more than 75 grams of carbs per day. And I typically dont go over 25 grams in a meal. I also have one protein snack with a smaller amount of carbs between lunch and dinner. So my question is, has anyone drastically changed their diet and just felt funny at times? It almost feels like a low blood sugar but I have worn CGM in the past and always check my number with a finger poke, and it is not low sugar. The only answer I can come up with (doctor looks at me like I am crazy when I asked) is that after a lifetime of poor eating and heavy carbs, my body is taking a while to adjust to this new way of eating. I am getting plenty of calories, but not too many as I have been able to drop about 50 lbs so far. My A1C is now in the pre diabetes range again, close to normal. Would love to hear others experiences.

Hi there ive just been to my gum clinic and they checked my blood work and my HBA1C is 58 even though ive been going gym and in the past it was low around 41 they booked me in with my local gp would my local gp do another test to confirm diabetes and what can I expect? Im just scared

Im newly diagnosed for about a month, my sugars today have been between 95-110, i ate pho around 8pm, by 8:30 my sugar was at 217…i checked again at 10 (2hours post meal) and it went down to 118….is that normal? I take metformin 2000mg day , ive been consistently woking out and having a balanced diet

Been T2 for about 15yrs. Taking 1000mg of Metformin, 3g Linigliptin , plus Lansoprazole for IBS.

I have had tingling toes on and off for 2 yrs, maybe once a month at most but Saturday I woke up feeling "weird". My index and 2nd fingers on left hand were numb. Went out for drive and it hurt touching the wheel. I noticed my fingertips were very wrinkled like you get when they've been in water too long so assumed all this might be down to dehydration. Anyways yesterday woke up, fingers still sensitive but also was feeling a pain between the 2 fingers and when I pressed either the palm or the back of the palm it not only hurt but sent a shooting pain down to my elbow. Today symptoms are slightly improving but fingers still have a noticeable tingle and all fingers still looking wrinkled despite drinking more water for the last 3 days.

Searching online suggests it could be early signs of damage but also carpel tunnel or even trapped nerve in my neck.

Anyone had similar and got a proper diagnosis?

About a year ago I got sick and my numbers skyrocketed and didn't go back down. It was almost instant. I had been fairly well controlled then got sick and immediately sky high numbers and it just didn't get better. I recovered but the numbers didn't. Now, almost a year later something has shifted and my numbers are so much improved. In fact my numbers are suddenly so good that I may need to lower my medications because I keep waking with alarms going off due to glucose dropping at night - something that has NEVER happened to me.

I have made ZERO changes to my routine or medications. I have double checked and confirmed the improved numbers via finger sticks. It does not make sense and I do not understand. How is this happening? It's so weird.

Alright, I’ve been on this journey for about 7 months and through good meds (no insulin), good diet, and lots of exercise, I’ve taught my body how to process food better. However, my coffee with Fairlife milk and 2TBS maple syrup can still send my numbers high (155mg/dl) if I drink it on an empty stomach in the morning.

I’m wearing a CGM this week because of travel and vacation, and I watched my numbers climb after a couple sips of coffee. The arrow pointed up, and the numbers jumped swiftly. Headed from 80 to over 120 and on up.

So I did the thing that some folks swear by (but, as a powerlifter I stupidly scorned, thinking it wasn’t as effective as they said):

Calf raises.

I did a set of 30, then waited 5 minutes. Did 30 more and waited again. Numbers back in the low 100s, which seems wild.

Now, I understand that the CGM does a lot of fiddly estimating in the moment, so it’s not as reliable for hard numbers, but the turnaround in the arrow’s direction was pretty obvious.

So, here’s my musing/nerd curiosity: if my calves are not the largest muscle group by a long shot, why so effective? I’ve got spectacular leg muscles from genetics and training, but it still makes me chuckle. Is it a low-cortisol-inducing exercise, as opposed to something like running, which is also combating stress at the same time? Is this solution likely only temporary? Is this exercise less effective for skinny people, because they’re moving less body weight?

Fascinating stuff!

Hi! I (18F) was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes about two years ago and since then ive struggled with finding motivation to workout and improve it. I tend to focus more on my diet like little to no sugar beverages and food and high protein items in my meals. i just want to know any tips tnat have helped any of you with getting the will to work. Thanks!

Any Type 2 diabetics who lost 15 + kgs while managing diabetes. What are your key takeaways to help others?

I know I could search the sub, but I'm feeling very overwhelmed. Went for a physical Friday fully expecting them to tell me to make healthier choices, but I was NOT expecting a diabetes diagnosis and 8.6%.

I'm a 41M from the US with a wide, toddler, and 6 month old. I've been told I'll meet with a specialist and begin meds soon (mounjaro and something else I can't recall).

Curious your best tips, learnings, food substitutes, etc. I'll dive into the sub once I wrap my mind around this more fully. But for now - thanks so much in advance.

I’ve also decreased metformin down from 2000, then 1500 and then 1000 and my readings are better and better since decreasing the dose. Weird I know and my Endo has no idea why, but I’ll go with it bc I’m finally seeing results.

I’m at a loss of what to do. In mid January, my endo took me off my 7.5 mounjaro. That was the only medication I was taking at the time and I had a fasting glucose of 110. I was taken off because of the risk of pancreatitis and my history with it. When was first diagnosed, I found out because I went to the ER for pancreatitis, and the ER informed me I had diabetes with a 9.2 A1C at 21yo. A year later, my Endo’s NP put me on mounjaro and I went from 7.6-6.0 in about 4 months.

Fast forward to early January, I was taken off of it due to the associate risk. He put my on .5mg of Glimepiride (a sulfonylurea). It worked for about 1 month until my numbers started rising. I cut out more carbs to 15-25g per meal and walk 10k+ steps every day.

I have informed my endo office about this change multiple times. The first time, they increased it to 1mg and told me to check back in 3 weeks. The next time I called them, trying to get in earlier or to speak to a NP, but they tell me I have an appointment in 3 weeks.

My fasting is 180, medication doesn’t work, and I’m afraid of irreversible damage at 23.. I suppose I’m just frustrated of seeing these numbers and if I TRULY could get pancreatitis again from mounjaro? I’m not asking for medical advise, just wanting similar experiences others have had with this so young.

I have a weird experience with food , I realized that All purpose flour doesn’t affect that much my sugar , ofcorrse there is a spike but compared to whole wheat flour , rice flour it’s nothing , I can eat bread and pasta and still my numbers are under 200 but if I touch whole wheat flour or rice or rice flour , it crosses 300 . Do you guys also have this weird thing . I can’t make sense of it , I thought whole wheat flour or rice flour is better than all purpose flour .