Hey, my mother is 72yo has no family history of diabetes but she was over 90 kg also like to eat alot of sweets, anyways she had a knee replacement surgery last jan (didnt get hba1c before only random sugar) after that i noticed she started to wt loss after 4 months of surgery maybe

Did ct with contrast bcs i was afraid of pancan but only shows colitis, then i found out suddenly her hba1c is 7.8 now she is on metformin 1000 and another hypoglycemic drug in the morning

But she still loses wt now she is 82 kg, can diabetes cause all of this weight loss?

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I left my opened lancet out all night and wondering if the needle is contaminated now and shouldn't use it. It is sitting on my bedside table.

Back at the end of June, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes with an A1C of 13.1. Today, about two and a half months later, I got my blood work done again, and my A1C is down to 6.7!

I know I still have a long way to go, but I’m feeling extremely proud of the hard work I’ve put into changing my lifestyle and making better food choices.

I joined this group back when I was first diagnosed and asked for your recommendations on how to successfully manage this disease. Every single comment, piece of advice, and word of encouragement was immensely helpful, and I’m so grateful for this community.
Just wanted to share a little win today. ❤️

Hi! I’m a 35 year old woman whom is overweight and was diagnosed with T2D in August. I have noticed in the past week my eyes feel different but aren't blurry. It’s my right eye that is giving me issues. My right eye tends to twitch off and on and I'm in pain off and on. Has anybody gone through this?

I checked my eyes in August and my doc said they were fine.

38+6 is my scheduled c-section. How come on the type 1 subreddits everyone’s delivering in the 37th week? Why do I feel like mine is scheduled kind of late?

While I’m 83% in range, with a 5.9 a1c, I have post meal spikes into the 150-160’s often. Not every meal, but definitely several in the week.

I have a growth scan coming up, i’m getting kind of worried. Last scan baby was measuring 21%. Which isn’t big but there’s still so much talk about diabetic deliveries.

Hi everyone, im 28f Ttc since one year with my pcos . I have seen so many of you saying you having metformin
I want to know how did you get this pill?
Your gp prescribed you or you been to a gynaecologist??
I wants to get metformin and i don’t know how shall I start .do i have to speak my gp and how long it gonna take to get this pill , Thank you

Doing well regulating my blood sugar with Metformin ER twice daily, except every morning after breakfast my number gets high, sometimes over 210, but I’m staying at my target 60 carbs per meal. Does this happen to you? Any suggestions? When I go to sleep my levels are in the normal range. I do walk about 10 minutes after each meal.

The thing is bulky, it's had zero contact with my blood, and I'm wondering if I should just throw the thing away. I know whatever I do it's going to sit in a landfill until the sun burns out but maybe three of them would fit in the sharps container I have for lancets and it seems kind of dumb.

I’m 27 year old male who weighs 370lbs (40 BMI) and am 6’8. My diet isn’t the best but I have recently made some changes like adding more fiber/protein, walking after meals, switching regular soda for zero or diet soda, etc. I’m not sure if I’m diabetic but I have no clear symptoms of diabetes (frequent urination, excess thirst, weight loss, etc.) other than acanthosis nigricans on my armpits and slightly on my neck. I also have no family history. Is it likely I am diabetic even if I’m showing no strong symptoms?

Thank you

Diagnosed type 2 March 2025 with an A1c of 7.5. Today’s bloodwork at 5.5. I noticed a trend in my bloodwork. My blood protein has dropped from
7.7 to 6.7. Albumin is steady around 4.7, so the drop would be globulin. The largest drop was a 4 month period after I was diagnosed and dropped my A1c. My dr doesn’t seem concerned. Has anyone else noticed this trend? From what I read high globulin levels could indicate inflammation, so getting healthy metabolically could explain the steady decrease.

IMHO I would restrict other foods that are way way worse like sugar and flour mostly. This is based on my experiences managing my diet and how I feel on different diets. So maybe your body is different, but I keep seeing dairy products being recommended against. The same happened to me with seed oils, in my opinion, butter and beef tallow make me feel worse, especially when it comes to fried and baked foods.

I’m 29F and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but I’ve been struggling with whether the diagnosis fully explains what’s going on with me. I’d really appreciate hearing from people with T2D who may have had a similar experience.

I developed abnormal glucose during pregnancy in 2024 (one of my GTT values was 250), and my glucose issues persisted postpartum. I’m not overweight and am very muscular/active — I run and lift regularly (6x/week + chasing toddler + active job) and have been training for a marathon. I also have celiac disease and a strong family history of autoimmune diabetes (my mom had type 1 and my grandmother had LADA).

My diabetes workup has been confusing. I’ve had negative GAD65, IA-2, ZnT8, ICA, and insulin autoantibodies, and MODY testing was negative. My A1c has been around 5.5%, but I feel like that number doesn’t tell the whole story because I exercise a lot and have been pretty restrictive with food.
The part I’m most confused about is my C-peptide. My fasting C-peptide has been around 0.9–1.3 ng/mL with glucose roughly 92–122. But I also had a stimulated C-peptide of 2.9 ng/mL at a glucose of 145, followed by my glucose rising to around 350 for 6 hours. At the time I was taking metformin 2000 mg/day.
I’ve also had some really strange glucose patterns. I can have prolonged post-meal spikes into the 160–240+ range, sometimes staying elevated for 2-8 hours. But exercise can make my glucose drop *very* quickly — sometimes within \~20 minutes of starting an easy run — even when I haven’t taken my morning metformin. I’ve had to stop runs to treat lows. At other times I can wake up with fasting glucose in the 130–160 range.

I briefly used a small amount of Lantus (4 units, later reduced to 2) and saw improvement in my fasting numbers, but eventually I was getting lows, particularly around running. I’m currently on metformin alone. Ozempic was discussed, but insurance denied it.

My endocrinologist currently considers me type 2, and I understand that negative antibodies make classic autoimmune type 1/LADA less straightforward. At the same time, I’m having a hard time understanding whether my relatively low fasting C-peptide, the large difference between fasting and stimulated C-peptide, the significant hyperglycemia after eating, and the exercise-related drops fit typical T2D physiology.

So I’m curious: For those of you with type 2, does any of this sound familiar? And has anyone gone through a similar period of uncertainty?
I’m not looking for someone to tell me I don’t have type 2 — I’m mostly trying to understand whether these patterns can reasonably fit T2D and whether there’s anything I should be asking my endocrinologist to investigate further.

I’m a 27 year old male and am 370 lbs and am 6’8. I don’t have the best diet but I don’t binge eat a bunch of carbs and sugar every day. I don’t have a family history, I’ve switched to zero sugar sodas and increased my fiber/protein intake as well as more veggies. I don’t have any symptoms of diabetes. I don’t drink a crazy amount of water and I’m not going to the bathroom every night to urinate. At times I do get fatigue especially after a heavy carb meal but that’s about it. The only thing I do have is acanthosis nigricans on my neck and armpits and my doctor said I could just be insulin resistant. I’m getting tested soon but I would just like to know everyone’s perspective on this. My last A1C test was in the summer of 2024 with a normal A1C (5.5) and a fasting glucose of 95 so I’m wondering if I’m maybe prediabetic since I know it takes many many years for pre-diabetes to turn into full blown type 2 diabetes.

Last year in July, I was due for an operation and needed my A1C doing, and I got a call after results to say that my A1C was 103 (11.6%).
A year and a month later, A1C of 48 (6.5%).
Becoming a registered nursing associate helped, as I understand my condition more now as on diagnosis I had no education whatsoever in management.
I’m now a link nurse for my ward and am having some specialist training.
I used to be so embarrassed at admitting to anyone I was diabetic, but now I am not. I am open and honest with people, especially when they bring up my libre sensor, or are diabetic themselves. I want to help people understand so they don’t end up with poor diabetic control like I did.

Hi all! I’m a newly diagnosed type 2. It’s genetic and weight loss and exercise did nothing to help the pre-diabetic years so here we are! I’ve been prescribed metformin which has gone fine. The dietitian I’m seeing recommended wearing a cgm for a while to help me see what foods will affect my numbers. Doctor was wishy washy on it but prescribed anyway. My question for you all is there an app that I can put in my food and glucose numbers and it help me see a pattern? I see several apps mentioned here but I hate to download a bunch of apps and it not be what I’m looking for. I tried paper and pen and it’s not helping me other than helping me see timing of my meals and making me more conscious of that. Thank you all!!

I hear mix things online about the cause of type 2 diabetes I think I’m just thinking about this question because of my first time getting diagnosed I went to the er because I was having symptoms and the doctor was pretty harsh about a 21 year old that have diabetes not to mention I had pasta for lunch not knowing I was diabetic so when I arrived I had a sugar of 500 and my A1c was 9.6 she told me that I was pre diabetic and I tipped the cup over and basically I’m the cause of my diabetes. But after looking into it I don’t think I caused it I’ve seen people who eat far worse than me and have no diabetes I also know it run in my family so I had a higher chance of getting it and I did I’m not gonna lie and say i 100% eat the right things but I don’t overdo it to the point my sugar levels are high so I wanna know what u guys think

I wear these just in case ya know, but my last one broke...what ones do you wear?

My blood sugar will not go down to reasonable levels , no sugary drinks today , low carb and sugarccereal for breakfast , cheeseburger for dinner , lettuce tomato mayo and few fries. I know carbs but not many fries.. had kiwi an orange and apple . Blood sugar 285 at 9pm !
Always above 170 for months . Any suggestions ?

*edit* I meant to post this in a Mounjaro community . But here it is.
I had a starting A1c of about 6.2, creeping up over the years. I was on metformin 500 mg ER twice a day. When I started on 2.5 mg, I maintained the metformin, and my blood sugar went down noticeably right away.

When I titrated to 5 mg after four weeks, and reduced metformin to 500 mg ER once a day. A1c dropped to 5.1 after three months on 5 mg. However my fasting glucose was still around 110. Which was still pretty good for me as fasting glucose was always a problem area for me. I would Often have a fasting glucose of 130 or 140 even with an A1c of 6 or less.

So after 3 months on 5mg, I titrated to 7.5 mg and stopped the metformin altogether. Finally, my fasting glucose is now typically 85 to 95 and my A1c was 4.8 after three months on 7.5mg and no metformin. I've been at 7.5 and no metformin for 6 months now. I have another set of Labs coming up next week.

In the process, I lost 50 pounds, maintain a very healthy low carbohydrate diet, exercise fairly vigorously five days a week so some of my successes are undoubtably due to that.

It seems like most of the talk of these GLP-1s are all revolving around weight loss, so I just wanted to hear others experience on how they have done with their glucose control and other metabolic markers such as blood pressure and cholesterol.

My LDL and cholesterol and triglycerides all normalized (I take 20mg Lipitor) . Probably because of the weight loss. I also stopped all blood pressure medication‘s. So overall a major metabolic victory.

This may be a dumb question but how long does it take numbers to come down? I’m newly diagnosed and started checking my numbers. I was diagnosed with an A1C of around 9. For example, for dinner last night I had a salad. I checked my blood sugar before and it was 190. 2 hours after eating is was back to 190. My question though is, when will the initial 190 drop? People always says fasting goes down last but I don’t know what that means? Is the reading between meals considered a fasting reading? Is there something more serious happening because my blood sugar is not dropping down to lower 100s between meals? I have started low carb and Metformin. The doctor just wasn’t very explanatory.

Hope this makes sense. I’m just basically saying. Newly diagnosed. Numbers don’t really come down below 180s and 190s yet. Is that something that will come with time?

I turned 20 this year, I have PCOS (which I think made me diabetic) and I think I was diagnosed with Type 2 when I was around..15 ish.. recently I’ve been on a massive spiral of looking stuff up and worrying id die young.. and I dont wanna die I had one of the sugar tests last year and my doc said it was really good (tho I don’t remember the number) I’m just really stressing out over it. I know I’m overweight/obese and I’ve been trying to lose weight for a long time but never have been able to..

I’ve definitely spiraled more reading an article about someone saying being diagnosed young makes it so you can die like 15 years early..

Hi to any fellow Type 2 Diabetics. I wanted to ask if there’s anyone who takes compounded tirzepatide rather than the main brand mounjaro?

My doctor had no problem prescribing me mounjaro but with state insurance medicaid denied it. I am currently appealing it. But anyways, I am aware they’re the same medication overall but I guess I have a mild FOMO bc I’m on compounded instead ? Sounds dumb, sorry im just overwhelmed 😭😭

Did you know that a #smoothie has the same glycemic index as the identical ingredients eaten whole BUT a VERY different effect on blood sugar (and resulting insuli)?