What's your Type 2 Diabetes story? Let's share!

Hi everyone - it's nice to have found this forum and thanks for sharing all of your stories, it is comforting to read about people who have gone through similar experiences.

I learned I had type 2 diabetes in 2018. I had just earned a masters degree and a career transition - from web development to occupational therapy. I began working in a hospital setting, very high stress, very chaotic schedule (and eating). After about a year I began losing a ton of weight, my vision became blurry, and my back was in so much pain that I couldn't transfer patients anymore. I went to the doctor for my back pain, but after urine and blood tests learned that my blood sugar was in the high 600s and then I spent two days in the hospital. I had to leave the job I had just gotten and reverted back to my old career temporarily, due to the difficulty I had managing my diet, stress levels, and routine. 

Flash forward to 2021, I was doing well with everything - doing my web development job full time, and OT on the side, and having managed my blood sugar so well over the past couple of years with metformin / glipizide / healthy eating and exercise that I stopped checking my blood sugar. BIG mistake. I went back to the doctor a few weeks ago due to frequent urination. Another blood test, and boom - 11.5 A1C. Crushing to find out because I was already being so healthy and felt so good. I'm slowly getting back on track again, but I guess it just speaks to the constant vigilance required to manage it.

Hi! I was recently diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes in August. I felt completely helpless. I was searching online when I discovered D2Goal method and it has helped me tremendously! I wanted to share in case anyone else is feeling the same way. It has made a huge impact on my life.

Hello. My name is Stephen. I was diagnosed last October(21). My physician had been checking my A1C which was between 9&10. He never followed up, except to prescribe Metformin which I cannot take. Then Glimperide. After ending up in the emergency room with numbers pushing 500, It hit home. I am now taking Lantas and it is not working. Rarely am I under 200. I am disabled and have a variety of health conditions to boot. Really tired of feeling like crap and doctor will not refer to a specialist. Time for a new MD. Ty. This morning sugar was 258, last night 230. No idea what is causing these spikes.

I just joined this community as someone who was recently diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and a professional Community Manager. It’s nice to have a space to open up. I’m still less than a month since I was diagnosed and it’s been a real emotional journey. I’m still getting used to new routines, new diet, new medications and not getting to upset with myself if my counts are off. I feel like such a burden sometimes and I’m trying really really hard. I was told recently that Diabetes isn’t a destination but a journey. I hope this doesn’t upset anyone here but I just wish I could feel “normal” again. Thank you for hearing my raw emotions.

Hello! I was diagnosed rather out of the blue two weeks ago, and it has just now all kind of come crashing down on me. So I thought hey, this is probably what support groups are for. I’d had no symptoms aside from increased thirst, and as I’m still in my early 30s, I did not immediately suspect chronic disease. I only found out after getting a blood work up at a routine gyno visit; she called the next day insisting I go to urgent care and tell them my a1c was 12.1. I didn’t even know what that meant, just did as she said. They said “yep, it’s diabetes alright” and referred me to a specialist and gave me metformin—which has been the absolute worst by the way.

Anyway, whoever else is very newly diagnosed or who remembers the emotional turmoil surrounding that initial diagnosis, it sucks right? I try to stay positive, but it’s like there’s a million little inconveniences, discomforts, daunting prospects, and disappointments that get piled on until you realize you’re weeping into your soup. My appointment with the specialist is next week, and probably he’ll be able to address a lot of my questions and concerns, but still. I’m getting married next April, will I be able to eat my own wedding cake? Will the CGM, if I have one, be a giant wedding accessory I never planned on? How much of a disruption will my new diet be when we hang out with friends? I know it’s early still, but food now is just universally disappointing. Is this really my existence for the rest of my life? Little, inconsequential things, I know. But all at once, it’s just been a lot. Anyway. Sorry for the rant.

I was recently (about 1.5 months ago) diagnosed as T2D. Barely. We're talking a 6.5 A1C and fasting blood sugar of 127. I'm mad at myself - I knew I was prediabetic 3 years ago, and I futzed around and didn't fix the problem when I could have fixed it. Unfortunately, now I'm flipping between beating myself up (which does no good, although at least I'm owning it as "I did this to myself") and blaming everyone else ("My wife knew I was prediabetic when I knew, and we never changed the foods we fixed until now.", "My kids kept eating the healthier foods I would buy", "My kids were causing my wife stress so she was fixing quicker dinners instead of healthier dinners...you get the idea.

Well, I've got 6 kids, the youngest is almost 7, 2 are 8, one is 11, and the other 2 are 17 and 19. So I want to be around for a LONG time (I'm almost 48). So I've done a pretty drastic diet flip (WAY below 45 carbs per meal, virtually 0 sugar, no sodas anymore, fish and chicken most of the time, etc, to try and drop my weight and get my A1C back down. Doc says I should be able to do this without meds, at least for a while, so that's my current goal - see how long I can stay off of insulin and other meds.

So yeah - the Scot-Irish ancestry in me is coming out, and I'm fighting like there's no tomorrow.

Hi my name is Jamie. I was diagnosed in February 2024. Maybe earlier than that I don't remember. I'm trying to eat right but it's so expensive and I really don't know what I can eat.

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes while in the hospital for four months with Pancreatitis. The first few years it was fairly controlled. I weighed 210 at the time BTW. But in 2018 I caught what we now think was Covid and was intubated for ten days. Consequently, I ended up losing a LOT of weight, a little over 100 lbs!

I expected that the diabetes would be even easier to keep in check. But instead, it became harder to control! It's now wildly unstable. I can't seem to keep my sugars in a decent range at all. They are either way too high or way too low. It doesn't matter what I eat either.

I'm hoping this group will be able to give me some support.

Diagnosed in 2008. Participated in MANAGING the condition for the next few years, until the Medical and Dietary science evolved to make it possible to REVERSE the condition. That is how I am interacting with the T2D nowadays. Once Dr Fung (and his contemporaries) crystallized the issue as not treating the SYMPTOMS of the condition, but instead addressing the INSULIN RESISTANCE, as the key to reversal, in tandem with reading the many testimonials of folks who succeeded with their own remissions....I more motivated and hopeful of my own return to optimal health.

I have been a type 2 diabetic for over 14 years now. I am the first person in my family to be diagnosed with diabetes. The doctor that admitted me to the hospital was angry that I did not tell them I was a diabetic. I told him that I didn't know I had diabetes. My doctors told me that I would be put on oral medication. My doctors came back and told me that they made a mistake and that because of my Congestive Heart failure that I would have to be on insulin. I was on Lantus and Humalog. I started working hard and I changed my eating habits. I only eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. I don't eat anything between meals and I don't eat anything after dinner,. Thanks to my hard work I am now off of insulin and I am on ozempic and Farciga. I weigh now what I weighed in College.

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