UPDATE:
Kept my promise to see Internist last week. Put on Victoza and Metformin for now, with a follow-up visit in 3 weeks. Scheduled for 1st endo visit at end of March; will confirm T2 or other. Testing, testing, testing.
LABS (hold on to your socks!):
BG: 561
A1C: 15
Ketones: 3+
Cholesterol: 249 (HDL 50 / LDL 157)
BP: 121/91
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Soooo... a bit of history.
52 y/o, and was diagnosed over a year ago after realizing I'd lost 30lbs in one month. Terrified of meds prescribed (Victoza?), as I'm not on any other meds at all, so decided I could control with diet and exercise.
Told no family other than my hubby. Ashamed I think. Stopped testing BG after about 2 months; it was always in the high 200-300s. Figured until I take meds there's no point.
Began Vitamixing green smoothies daily for a year (kale, cucumber, brocolli, beet, 1 banana, water). Cut out white bread, rice, potatoes, sodas, chips, junk like that. Well sorta. Still have periodic (monthly-ish) binges on pizza, or chocolate cake, or sweet tea. I've been calling it Suicide by Food. But I do things like I don't eat the bun on burgers, eat more salads, salmon, etc.
Despite my efforts, still have tons of foamy urine. Thirsty all the time, 4-5 trips at night to the bathroom. And as of late, just exhausted no matter how much sleep I get. Have lost a total of 72 lbs, but last 4-5 months have stayed at same weight.
Now coming out of denial, mostly brought on by my aunt's open heart surgery last week. Horrified. She's been diabetic for years, amputated her toe last year, she's had 11 surgeries and now they've cracked open her chest... so now I'm more afraid of THAT in my future than I'm afraid of the side effects of diabetes meds.
So I'm making the doctor appointment, and have found TuDiabetes to be an invaluable resource for me understanding that I'm not alone, it's not a death sentence, and that I can probably be in even better health.
Just wondering if anyone else has had similar side effects to those in the title?
(1) Nausea after water?
In the morning I make sure to have water as soon as I wake up. But as soon as I do I'm sick to my stomach. Wondering if the 8 hours without food at night is.. I don't know, causing my blood sugar to be too low and the water... does .. .something? (Try not to laugh, lol)
(2) Bladder?
Not to be detailed, but let's just say I **NEVER** make it from my desk to the ladies at the office. I'm fine when sitting, but as soon as I stand it feels like, er, the muscles there don't... clinch like they should. (Not the kegel muscles, those are fine).
(3) Lost weight, not fat
Despite the weight loss I still have globs of fat hanging on. Is it common to loose muscle not fat? That makes me worry about my HEART muscle getting too small. Again, I'm still learning all of this, but am perplexed that all of this weight loss seems to still leave tons of fat on me.
Ok - I know this is a long post but, as you can imagine, I'm full of questions and everyone here seems to really have a good handle on things.