Hi Sophie
Has your doctor put you on any medications or suggested that you use a glucose monitor at all? I am pre-diabetic and getting very little advice from my doctor. I am curious about your situation.
Irene

Oh your profile pic with you cat is so cute. For a second, before I came to your Home Page to check out the full sized version of your cat - I thought it was a Scottish Fold - but it looks like a regular fun loving fur ball (like mine - they are all strays that happened to knock on my back door - and decided they liked the place and the maid service they get from myself and my hubby).

Hi Sophie! Thanks for the add! Great a1c - keep it up!

Sophie you usually do not have to pinch up skin, but if you're bruising you might want to try it. I have to most of the time too.

Yes, I was in "denial" about my T2 diagnosis, and went through a brief phase about "maybe they switched my blood sample by mistake" but after testing my postprandial levels, I knew I wasn't normal. Plus 3 years ago my family doc told me I was glucose intolerant after an oral glucose test (pre-diabetes). Sometimes with a meal of pasta or rice, I can go up as high as 183 one hour after. My 1st insulin phase is definitely impaired. Plus my father who has a BMI of 20 is also T2 and my older sister who is very skinny is also glucose-intolerant. It just runs in my family. Blasted family genes!! So I get mad when people say stuff like being T2 is one's own fault. I don't think anyone with a chronic disease "deserves" to be labeled as such.

Thanks for adding me as a friend, Sophie! Nice to see another T2 with good A1C. After I use up my Advocate meter & Accu-Chek strips, I'm moving on to FreeStyle Lite. Has your experience been positive with it? It's pretty accurate, right? Because I've had weird results with Advocate & Accu-Chek Compact, one is really "off".

Thanks for the response on the metformin. I wanted to get off of it because it seems to be throwing off my hormones. I do see 10-20 point BG improvement on it though, both fasting & post-prandial. Why did you switch to Byetta?

Hi Sophie, welcome to TuDiabetes. I was reading your blog about "borderline" type 2 with interest -- How long have you been on Metformin? I am taking Metformin currently, but am trying to wean myself off of it eventually.

We are all in the same boat of "what if's". I can tell you deniel is your worse enemy. Get a book and make a column of + and - of how you feel and what you eat. I go more on how I feel....if I eat fat.....wow do I feel like crap. I got to run but will check in later to talk with you. Be Well.... Pam