u/rmlosblancos

I’ve been living with the diagnosis for 2-3 weeks now. I started from almost crying every day, having breakdown by the tiniest food choice to feeling numb and exhausted lately. While I get to know my body a bit better, I’m still spiking here and there and I can’t explain it at all, which frustrated me a lot.

My fasting was a little higher than what my MFM wants (always >90, sometimes >100) so he put me on metformin. I was a bit skeptical at first but thought it would be a good middle ground between only diet control and injecting insulin so just went with it. The first day - fasting didn’t drop to the ideal level, but oh my god, throughout the day I have the calmest blood sugar fluctuation since diagnosis! I can’t be sure if it’s really the metformin, or my newly found food (sola bread haha) is working magically. But it feels great to have a working pancreas that can effectively tackle blood sugar again!!!! When I read people say getting on insulin or meds in general helped improve your mental health, IT TRULY DOES! Now I no longer dread for the upcoming insulin order.

Hi first time here! I was diagnosed last week (29w, FTM) and was put on cgm and asked to prick fingers 4x/daily. So far the numbers definitely have overwhelmed me so I may read into them too much.

My clinic uses the cutoff of 130 for 1-hour post-meal. I started to see my numbers in 125-135. I def broke 130 at 1-hour several times, and sometimes went above 120 at 2-hour. It was almost all under 140, but sometimes got very close to it. Is it still considered a spike that I should make adjustments to keep it well under the cutoff, or I can temporarily celebrate for one more safe meal and a narrow win? I only started tracking 3 days ago, so def there's still a lot of trial and error to do.