Newly diagnosed, round 2.

Hi There,
I am a 61 yo male in Seattle, Firstly, I apologize if this post is too long or too much info. I have been finding lately that my health providers seem a bit impatient with me and my questions about what's going on for me. Very frustrating.
I had been diagnosed back in 2011 with T2 and A1C of 11.2. I was immediately started on MET ER 500 2x a day. I was determined to "beat" this and within 18 months I went from 240 to 185 and brought A1C to 5.6. I was taken off MET and maintained for a while but numbers crept back up from time to time, so I just watched my weight and that helped. When covid started, I was not able to play ice hockey 2-3 times a week and started biking and jogging almost every day. This was last summer. I was excited to go to the doc to see my a1c drop, but it was UP to 7.0! from 6.1. I didn't understand. I was discouraged. I did gain some weight through covid and thought that was it. I dropped from 191 back to 184 and went in for another a1c and got it back to 6.7 within a month or so. This is where it gets messed up. Taking my am bg readings, I was hovering around 107 to 120 in the mornings during this time of weight loss and playing hockey again. I figured that seeking a naturopath might help as well and we took lots of blood for testing and found that my bit d level was at 16 and my b6 and 12 were low too. She put me on vit d and methyl b's to bring those numbers up. But ever since we connected, my am bg are at 160 and holding. ***? Not only that, I had a "freak out" last Friday the 4th and my bg went from 185 to 205 within an hour as I was freaking out. I had the MET prescription in the cabinet and started taking it Friday last and have been on er 500 1x for 10 days.
I was at 184ish on that date and have since dropped down to 176 and it's scaring me. I am eating more than I did last weekend but cant seem to gain the weight back and it also seems that if I stopped eating, I would lose weight even faster. This is troublesome considering that for years, it was always a struggle to even lose a pound or two and keep it off.
I don't know what to do or think. I am afraid to eat, I am afraid to excersize, I am afraid to take the MET, I am afraid to test my fasting BG.
Right now, it sucks to be me.
Any feedback from this community would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for taking the time.
ChimDale

Goonergal said:

Hi @Chimdale and welcome

Sorry to hear you’re struggling. Forgive me responding with questions, but I want to be sure that I’m understanding correctly.


So one of the concerns is that your blood sugars have increased since starting on the supplements? Any ‘dodgy’ ingredients in the supplements?

None. The Vit D is Costco. The B's are direct from naturopath. Nothing else different from what I have taken for years in the past.

Is it the increase worrying you? That doesn’t sound like a huge increase - about 1 mmol in the units used in the UK. Allowing for meter inaccuracies (+/- 15%) it might not even have been a change.

Yes. To be steady at 110-120 for months and to then go up to 160ish seems odd to me. For no other reason than going to a naturopath.

Again, that’s a small drop and the numbers are not particularly low. That’s assuming they’re blood glucose readings, or are you referring to weight loss? That would be quite a drop in 10 days and if you’re not trying to lose weight, would be worthy of investigation.

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It is my weight. Hovered around 182-185 for years. Started MET again and within 4 days dropped to 176 and staying there as long as I eat.