u/Massive_Struggle_801

My (26F) Homa IR has gone down from 3.6 to 1.0 in the past 2 months. Last time I was at my doctor's appointment she was pushing me to go on Ozempic but I didn't want to because I'm already on metformin and I don't really like being on heavy drugs for prolonged periods. In those 2 months I lost about 3-4kg (used to be 80kg 2 months ago now I'm 76-77. Height 159cm), which isn't a lot but it's great progress. I will see my doctor soon, but I'm afraid she'll still push the idea of GLP1s.

Should I try going to a different doctor? I'm not saying that she's wrong but I really don't think I need to be on a GLP1 since my body is thankfully responding well to the lifestyle changes I've made.

My (26F) Homa IR has gone down from 3.6 to 1.0 in the past 2 months. Last time I was at my doctor’s appointment she was pushing me to go on Ozempic but I didn’t want to because I’m already on metformin and I don’t really like being on heavy drugs for prolonged periods. In those 2 months I lost about 3-4kg (used to be 80kg 2 months ago now I’m 76-77. Height 159cm), which isn’t a lot but it’s great progress. I will see my doctor soon, but I’m afraid she’ll still push the idea of GLP1s.

Should I try going to a different doctor? I’m not saying that she’s wrong but I really don’t think I need to be on a GLP1 since my body is thankfully responding well to the lifestyle changes I’ve made.

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I noticed that my hair has been getting thinner due to IR. My ferritin levels are low so my doctor prescribed lactoferrin, and I also take zinc, vitamin D and metformin 2000mg. I prioritize protein and fiber but my hair still seems to not be getting any better. Does anyone know any way that I can get my hair to reduce shedding?

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I got diagnosed with insulin resistance about 5-6 months ago. My Homa IR is 3.6. I’m consistently trying everything, and I mean everything, to lose weight and all I lost so far is 1.8kg. I'm currently on a calorie deficit, prioritizing protein and fiber, complete refined sugar cut, significant carb intake reduction, IF, no snacking, no cheat meals, no liquid calories, l walk 6-9k steps everyday even when I’m sick, I workout for about 2 hours everyday alternating between resistance and strength training, I'm on metformin 2000mg and I take inositol. It reached to a point where I don’t have time to do anything in my life besides exercising. I even sometimes have to put off work because I have to go walk, exercise or meal prep.

I don't know what more I can do. My calorie deficit might be too restrictive since I don't at all enjoy food anymore so I don't have an appetite most of the time, but I don't know if increasing my calorie intake will make any difference?

I'm open to taking GLP1s but unfortunately they're not accessible because of my medical insurance. I don't know what to do and I can't maintain this restrictive, strict diet and lifestyle for long because I'm tired of it.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I got diagnosed with insulin resistance about 5/6 months ago. My Homa IR is 3.6. I consistently tried everything, and I mean everything, to lose weight and all I lost is 1.8kg so far. I’m currently on a calorie deficit, prioritizing protein and fiber, complete refined sugar cut, significant carb intake reduction, IF, no snacking, no cheat meals, no liquid calories, I walk 6-8k steps everyday, I workout for about 2 hours everyday alternating between resistance and strength training, I’m on metformin 2000mg and I take inositol.

I don’t know what more I can do. My calorie deficit might be too restrictive since I don’t at all enjoy my current diet so I don’t have an appetite most of the time, but I don’t know if increasing my calorie intake will make any difference?

I’m open to taking GLP1s but unfortunately they’re not accessible because of my medical insurance. I don’t know what to do and I can’t maintain this restrictive, strict diet and lifestyle for long because I’m tired of it.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Recently I’ve noticed that I’ve become more forgetful than usual. I used to be able to remember small details of stories people told me, now I barely remember any stories my friends tell me. I also forget specific details names of neighborhoods, restaurants, etc. I used to ALWAYS remember people’s names but now my memory is not nearly as good.

Any advice on activities/hobbies that I can do to strengthen my memory a bit?
26F by the way.

I have one sibling, an older brother, and he’s the favorite kid. Not among my parents (my parents are great and very fair between me and him) but my extended family.

We are adults now, but this has been going on since we were kids and I didn’t even realize it until I got older. When I was younger I just thought that my relatives were not very nice people, but turns out they were not nice to ME. My brother and I are very different, and were raised very differently even though we grew up in the same household. He’s so much more social than I am, and I have always struggled with anxiety for so many reasons, one being how I was treated by my family.

Some things that were told/done to me were:

- my brother and I traveled to study abroad and we shared an apartment. During our studies we went back home for a short trip to finish some paperwork. We were visiting our grandma during that trip, and my brother traveled back earlier than me. My grandma was worried who would do my brother’s chores in my absence (she’s sexist and plays favorites even with her own children), completely disregarding the fact that I am not my brother’s maid, and that I’m studying and living abroad just like him

- while deciding to travel abroad to study, several family members tried to shame my mon for letting me, a girl, travel abroad alone and some tried to convince her to not let me travel. They didn’t say anything when my brother was sent to study abroad

- my paternal uncle, whom I hadn’t seen for like 5 years, came to visit me and my mom once. My dad and brother were abroad at the time. I was expressing to my uncle how much I’ve missed him and, I’m not exaggerating, all he talked about the entire time was how much he misses my brother and that the house doesn’t feel the same without him. He didn’t ask a single question about how I was doing

- my paternal aunt often calls and checks up on my brother and rarely calls me, and whenever she does call me the call doesn’t last over a minute

My maternal aunt is the only person who is nice to me and treats me equally, if not better, to my brother. Probably because she only has sons and no daughters so she sees me as a daughter.

My brother is completely blind to how differently me and him are treated. Whenever I talk about a traumatic childhood experience he gets so shocked, thinks I’m exaggerating and doesn’t believe me because to him our family is very kind and peaceful. I’m very grateful that my parents don’t differentiate in treatment between me and my brother, and honestly I don’t care what the other family members think of me, I’m not close to them anyway and probably never will be but I just dislike their judgment and sexism towards me.

I have one sibling, an older brother, and he’s the favorite kid. Not among my parents (my parents are incredible and very fair between me and him) but my extended family.

Wr are adults now, but this has been going on since we were kids and I didn’t even realize it until I got older. When I was younger I just thought that my relatives were not very nice people, but turns out they were not nice to ME. My brother and I are very different, and were raised very differently even though we grew up in the same household. He’s so much more social than I am, and I have always struggled with anxiety for so many reasons, one being how I was treated by my family.

Some things that were told and done to me were:

- my brother and I traveled to study abroad and we shared an apartment. During our studies we went back home for a short trip to finish some paperwork. We were visiting our grandma during that trip, and my brother traveled back earlier than me. My grandma was worried who would do my brother’s chores in my absence (she’s sexist and plays favorites even with her own children), completely disregarding the fact that I am not my brother’s maid, and that I’m studying and living abroad just like him

- while deciding to travel abroad to study, several family members tried to shame my mon for letting me, a girl, travel abroad alone and some tried to convince her to not let me travel

- my paternal uncle, whom I hadn’t seen for like 5 years, came to visit me and my mom once. My dad and brother were abroad at the time. I was expressing to my uncle how much I’ve missed him and, I’m not exaggerating, all he talked about the entire time was how much he misses my brother and that the house doesn’t feel the same without him. He didn’t ask a single question about how I was doing

- my paternal aunt often calls and checks up on my brother and rarely calls me, and whenever she does the call doesn’t last over a minute

My maternal aunt is the only person who is nice to me and treats me equally, if not better, to my brother. Probably because she only has sons and no daughters so she sees me as a daughter.

My brother is completely blind to how differently me and him are treated. Whenever I talk about a traumatic childhood experience he gets so shocked and doesn’t believe me because to him our family is very kind and peaceful. I’m very grateful that my parents don’t differentiate in treatment between me and my brother, and honestly I don’t care what the other family members think of me, I’m not close to them and probably never will be but I just dislike their judgment and sexism towards me.

I got diagnosed with IR with a 3.6 Homa IR and have since cut off refined sugar (and all artificial sweeteners because I hate the taste), almost completely cut off carbs, snacking, liquid calories, etc. This has resulted in me eating only grilled or boiled veggies, beef, grilled chicken and shrimp and I’m TIRED of this way of eating. I completely lost any joy in food, I now literally get sick at the thought of grilled or baked chicken to the point where I gag if I smell it, I also initially didn’t like beef so it’s annoying when I have to eat it now. I also live in a region where any food product marketed as “healthier” like greek yogurt, berries, salmon, anything sugar free, etc is at least 3x the price of its non-healthy counterpart. I want to get better and healthier but I’m genuinely tired and honestly disgusted by this diet. I don’t know what to do anymore. Does anyone have any suggestions or budget friendly recipes?

This is not recent. I used to have a friend and he cut me off and moved out of the country we lived in without letting me know. He was living in that country just for his college and this was during the last year of his studies, so I knew that he was eventually leaving. After his graduation we made some plans for that summer and we hung out a lot.

Everything was very normal and we hadn’t had any fight or anything like that. I hadn’t seen or heard from him in a while, and then one day I opened my instagram to see his sister (she’s also my friend but we’re not close) posting a story of her picking him up from the airport back home. I texted him to ask if he’s gone for a short visit or something, because there’s no way that he just moved out of the country without telling me, but he said that he’s moved out for good. I asked why he hasn’t let me know and he responded with “sorry, time was tight and I didn’t have time to say goodbye”. Mind you we lived in an extremely small city and our houses were like 10 minutes apart, he could have called me and I’d have been at his place in less than 30 minutes. Anyway, I didn’t respond because I couldn’t believe that he just moved and he made this stupid excuse as to why he didn’t tell me.

Ever since then we have only texted a couple times, mostly just me wishing him a happy birthday and he would always seem very uninterested whenever I texted him. It’s always me who texted first and he would always end the conversation, he never was the one who initiated the conversation. He hasn’t even ever wished me a happy birthday since then.

I don’t know why he did that and why he’s treating me like that, literally nothing happened between us for him to cut me off completely like that. Just recently it was his birthday and I sent him a happy birthday message and he responded with thank you and a GIF, I responded with a small comment on the GIF to try to make conversation and he just responded about a day later by liking my messages. I have no idea why he’s doing this.

I don’t have the guts to talk to him about it because I feel like it’s been a long time that we’ve been like this. Should I just let go?

This is not recent. I used to have a friend and he cut me off and moved out of the country we lived in without letting me know. He was living in that country just for his college and this was during the last year of his studies, so I knew that he was eventually leaving. After his graduation we made some plans for that summer and we hung out a lot. Everything was very normal and we hadn’t had any fight or anything like that. I hadn’t seen or heard from him in a while, and then one day I opened my instagram to see his sister (she’s also my friend but we’re not close) posting a story of her picking him up from the airport back home. I texted him to ask if he’s gone for a short visit or something, because there’s no way that he just moved out of the country without telling me, but he said that he’s moved out for good. I asked why he hasn’t let me know and he responded with “sorry, time was tight and I didn’t have time to say goodbye”. Mind you we lived in an extremely small city and our houses were like 10 minutes apart, he could have called me and I’d have been at his place in less than 30 minutes. Anyway, I didn’t respond because I couldn’t believe that he just moved and he made this stupid excuse as to why he didn’t tell me. Ever since then we have only texted a couple times, mostly just me wishing him a happy birthday and he would always seem very uninterested whenever I texted him. It’s always me who texted first and he would always end the conversation, he never was the one who initiated the conversation. He hasn’t even ever wished me a happy birthday since then. I don’t know why he did that and why he’s treating me like that. Literally nothing happened between us for him to cut me off completely like that. Just recently it was his birthday and I sent him a happy birthday message and he responded with thank you and a GIF, I responded with a small comment on the GIF to try to make conversation and he just responded about a day later by liking my message. I have no idea why he’s doing this. I don’t have the guts to confront him about it because I feel like it’s been a long time that we’ve been like this. Should I just let go?

It hasn’t been long, but I’m currently on metformin 2000mg, on a calorie deficit, cut out sugar and significantly reduced carbs, walk 6-8k steps everyday, and do resistance and strength exercises 6 days a week in hopes of losing some weight and reversing my 3.6 insulin resistance. I’ve been researching ways on how people lost weight with insulin resistance and I haven’t seen a single person who has successfully lost weight without GLP1s. So, realistically, will I actually be able to lose weight only through this lifestyle or should I seriously consider the addition of a GLP1?

My doctor put me on metformin 1000mg 3 months ago because my blood test showed homa IR of 2.2. I completed my dose and stopped for 10 days after the 3 months. Got my blood tested again to see if it’s gotten better, but it didn’t. It became 3.6. I stopped for these 10 days because my metformin dose was over and I could only book an appointment for my blood draw then. Even before starting metformin I was doing intermittent fasting and was on a low calorie intake, cut out on a lot of carbs, no snacking, almost completely cut off sugar, etc. Is this normal? How could it have gone this much worse and while on metformin? Could it really be those 10 days that I stopped? I also gained about 2kg. I don’t understand how this happened? I get to see my doctor in a few days but I want to know if anyone else has experienced something similar.