Hello everyone this is my first post here honestly i don’t even know where to begin so please forgive my boring post.
Some stuff about me:
19 yrs old male
104 kilograms
174 cm
Well what got me to get tested for diabetes is quite funny i think. all started with my first time having a sexual intercourse last october when i was 18. I had a hard time maintaining my erection. But i thought it was something psychological so i didn’t mind it at all. But after 3 more unsuccessfull attempts (january, april, august respectively) i realized that something was not right and decided to get a diabetes test because i was around 110 kilograms at that time and i immediately suspected diabetes.
At 02.sept.15 i recieved my blood test results and was diagnosed with pre-diabetes. Here are the results;
Insulin resistance : 4.43
Insulin (when hungry) ; 21.1
Glucose : 84 mg/dl
Doctor said the normal level for insulin resistance should be below 2.7 and perscribed me with a medicine called Glucophage . She recommended losing some weight by exercise and diet. To be honest’ i completely ignored the exercise part but I used this medicine along with a healthy diet and lost 7 kilograms. After around 2 months i finished all the glucophage pills i had by early november ( took 2 pills per day) and i didn’t use it for two weeks. After two weeks i got tested again to see if i made any progress and apparently it only got worse.
After losing 7 kilograms and using glucophage for 2 months i have
5.73 insulin resistance
24,41 insulin (when hungry)
94 mgdl glucose
And 5,54 HBA1C (dont know what this is)
These results are from 21.11.15
Note that the results above are tested after 2 weeks of no glucophage.
So yeah…ive lost all my hope. Ive read it online that i can reverse prediabetes but so far my efforts have all failed/made it even worse. My questions are;
1-What am i doing wrong? How can my insulin resistance greatly increase despite taking meds and losing weight?
2- can these levels of sugar cause erectile dysfunction? Its not a full dysfunction but im like 80 percent hard of what i used to be. And i lose that during sex.(sorry if this is out of topic)
3- in january 2015 a large vein appeared on my penis and it’s been there ever since, could this mean that the veins are damaged by prediabetes? (this is probably out of topic aswell but im really desperate you guys)
And most importantly, can i actually reverse this or its just a myth? I mean after 2 months of diet and meds and losing weight i just feel completely desperate right now and this already ruined my relationship with 2 girls. Some people say these sugar levels are too low to cause erectile dysfunction but online sites say prediabetes can cause ed.
What is going on with me people? I feel like im losing my mind. Im scared of my prediabetes developing into type 2 and i want to do something about it before its too late.
Please forgive my use of language as im not a native speaker.
Thank you for taking your time.