newly diagnosed

Hi guys! following your advice, I started the LCHF diet, am still feeling my way around. so far so good, its been 1 week since I started. My blood sugar levels are always below 7.0 and its amazing! the only thing is that I sleep quite late and sometimes I get hungry at night, is there anything...

Just told I was insulin resistant...very nominal but with cardio and vascular issues doc wants me to start metformin at 500 mg x 2 daily then move up to 800 mg. It is kind of funny, but he would not give me a script for a monitor stating I don't need one. Fortunately, I have one even though I'm...

Hi, I am Cindy and I am 54 years old. For years I have had some symptoms of diabetes, but didn't associate my symptoms to the disease. I am 5 feet 5 and weigh 133 pounds. I didn't think I was a candidate for D. However, it does run rampant in my family so I should have been smarter than I...

Hi All! My Name is Kevin. I went to my physical (relativly out of the blue it had been 2.5 years) and my dr called and said that there was sugar in the "fluid" sample I left and that it looks like I have Diabeties I should see a specialist since my A1C was 9.6 (around 10th of July.) Made appt...

Hi all, my name is Katey and I am a recently diagnosed type 2 diabetic. My journey with diabetes started in 2007 when I was pregnant with my first child and I developed gestational diabetes. After that pregnancy I went back to normal blood glucose values. Fast forward to 2012 and my second...

Hi, my name is Cindy. I am 48, live in Florida with my wonderful family. I have a great, but stressful life. I was diagnosed with type 2 earlier in April. My ac1 was 12.9. Very very high. I was started on Kombiglyze 1000/1.25 twice a day. I've been on that and really watching what I'm...

Hi I would like to indroduce myself. My name is Nikki. I'm a newly diagnosed (April 2012) type 2. I have a very complicated health situation- I had a MVA 5 & 1/2 years ago and broke my femur in many places, broke my spine and most of my ribs. I was told I woul never walk again. Then after many...

I have a question that I'm hoping you folks might be able to help with. I don't have diabetes, but my Dad just got diagnosed last week with type 2. I'm trying to help him figure out a meal plan, and we are both relatively unfamiliar with Diabetes. At the moment, I'm looking for suggestions on...

Physically, my wife seems to be adjusting to diabetes well. (She was diagnosed with type 1 in early January.) She sometimes experiences highs (200-250 or so) and lows (65-70 or so) although her blood sugar control seems to be quite good most of the time. Not being a diabetic myself, I don’t...

Just wondering…is it common for adult-diagnosed insulin-dependent diabetics to take a while to get blood sugar under control, even when doing a good job counting carb choices and insulin units? Like, can one still expect something of a roller coaster the first week, which subsides with time...