You can do this !!! You got this !! You can have a normal life !! I too want the nightmare to end and plan on fighting my way through this every step of the way.....each day is a new day a new opportunity and a new way forward !!! You got this !!! Reach out to those around you......reach out to those here.....talk your way through this, your whole life is ahead of you and it will have tough times even the most blessed have tough times, but YOU will have fantastic adventures on a journey you get to dictate you have to control the narrative in your head and your emotional state.....honey you are so young...YOU ABSOLUTELY GOT THIS....right now you are vulnerable and hit with this diagnosis ( I am where you are...newly diagnosed) but there is no shame nor is there guilt AT ALL !! So there are skinny people with Type 2 diabetes.......I moved a herd of horses to a new farm I bought and the entire herd went IR within months and they are horses eating forage........there are studies that show propionate in low doses in animals causes IR and could lead to diabetes, propionate is in horse grains to preserve them...well fun fact...The foods most likely to contain propionate are breads, tortillas, pizza dough, pastries, breakfast cereals, pasta and noodles, dried and condensed milk, flavored milks, dairy-based spreads, cheese, some processed meats, certain processed fruit and vegetable products, and dairy, egg, and fat-based desserts....ITS NOT YOUR FAULT !!!! so for us humans to assume that the studies linking IR in animals to low doses of propionate it would be extremely naive to think humans do not have the same affect......In our evolution we have come up with ways to preserve food and propionate preserves food.....Hey so maybe you like food so do skinny people.....there is no guilt nor embarrassment if anyone judges you or thinks less of you they ARE NOT YOUR TRIBE FIND A NEW TRIBE but I think you will be surprised to find you are judging you, cut loose anyone else who judges you and stop judging yourself you will make it through this and thrive you drive the car of life ....be active....find adventures....watch the sunset and watch it rise......find a new normal.....find enjoyment in the simplest of things around you we live in an amazing world and it is sitting there for you to discover it any way you can.....Dream and chase your dreams....DIABETES does not define you it is only a small part of you....
So I am where you are very newly diagnosed, more ****** about it then anything it has been just 5 weeks of this for me......always had normal A1c and glucose levels, was not feeling well and had quit eating and was insanely thirsty for a week when suddenly grape juice became airborne.....I went to emergency room thinking I had a bug of some sort.....praying it was not Covid......DKA Diabetic ketoacidosis......Glucose at 820 and the search began for a critical care unit bed while an Ambulance waited for one to open in the 5 hospitals in the town to take me to it because our hospitals are full............I am 58 years old and have a BMI of 30 so delightfully chubby and yet super active. I left the hospital taking 60 units of insulin every 24 hours split across a 12 hour period......Everyone was surprised I made it to 58 without a diabetes diagnosis because they said I was a severe diabetic to have resulted in DKA and originally they told me DKA was a Type 1 problem,...but subsequent testing calls it type 2 and my peptides are normal too. The way I see it, I have a problem that I have to have a new normal and figure out because I plan on living life to the fullest the alternative sucks.....I plan on living and living well.....well is not defined by the food I consume but by the relationships I have, the relationships I make, the adventures I have, the ability to thrive, the joys of the simplest things, and the wonder of the universe, learning new things, trying new things........living a full life was never defined by food.......we need to fuel our bodies to live........you and I just have to adjust what we eat to fuel our bodies and get a little help from insulin or alterations to our diets..
While I am at it there are so many amazing foods that will fit within a Diabetic diet..you have to search for them and google...create some amazing recipes and share with your friends.....trust me on this one I like food you just have to alter ingredients a bit....
You got this !! It will be ok !!! There is an amazing world for you, you just have to chase after it !! Diabetes does not define you !!! There is a way forward and every day is a new day !!! Speak to people, have no shame and guilt make life happen and add new people to your tribe that know what you are dealing with !!! Talk to professionals when you feel defeated and isolated and vulnerable.......keep your mind healthy too.......find new adventures and find positives every day !!! You got this !!! Breathe and always move forward !!