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Hi everyone. I have been a type 2 diabetic for a little over a year now. My one year anniversary was on April 5th. In the beginning I did everything my doctor asked me to and I took care of myself. My doctor first put me on glipizide er and about 6 months ago she put me on actos. I lost about 30 pounds with the glipizide er but once she put me on actos I gained all the weight back and now I find it hard to lose weight. My sugars are under control now and are in the normal range I do watch what I eat I am only allowed to have 45 grams of carbs at each big meal and a 15 grams of carbs for snacks. Now I find it hard to take care of myself. I don't have enough time in the day to always test myself I know I should but I know my sugars are fine. I know I should join a gym and I did for a couple of months but I never had the time to go so I stopped paying for it. I am almost 20 years old and I teach pre-k full time and go to college full time. I get up at 6:30 every morning and don't return home until around 10 every night and then endless hours of studying. I guess I need some motivation on getting back on track. I don't want diabetes to control my life but I feel as though it does. I hate having to take 3 pills a day and test 4 times a day. I get really upset when I see people eating horrible food they shouldn't be but yet they aren't diabetic even when they don't take care of themselves and yes I know its genetic but it still upsets me because I always took care of myself. I am so tired of being diabetic. Is anyone else? I have no one around me that is diabetic also so I have no one to talk to about everything that can really understand. A lot of people that aren't diabetics just don't get how much is involved in this disease. I am almost engaged and I have always wanted 4 children. My mother does not want me to have any she has seen Steel Magnolis too many times and thinks I am going to die. But now I don't know if I want children. I know they will have a big chance of being diabetic themselves and I don't want to give it to them. Is that silly? Anyways any replys will be greatly appreciated. I know I sound like a whiner but take into consideration that I have held a lot of this in for a year with no one to talk to that really understands. :(

Welcome Shoe! I haven't posted here either. I'll try to tell you a bit about my expirience with diabetes. I have type I. I was diagnossed in 1968, many years before the neat meters were avalible. I'm now 47 and a grandfather.When I was a kid all I had to test BS was urine and that's not real acurate. I have problems now. Aftter 37 years I've lost my right leg but it could have been prevented. If I would have gone to a doctor with it earlier, they would have put in a stent and gotten the circulation back. That's my fault. Testing your BS is about the most important thing I can think of at this point in your life or mine. I check mine 3 or 4 times a day. I take 3 shots a day. My kids are fine.They might want a bit too much from me from time to time but they're fine. After a while you get used to the diet and you don't even want the junk other people eat, other people start to wish they could eat like you! My parents are trying to change thier diet now to meet mine after seeing the weight I'm at and looking at thiers. I guess the most imortant things are really not to smoke eat right and check your BS's and try to keep it under control. You will live to be a mean old person. I wish you all the luck with geting along and adapting to life. You will be in my prayers tonight. Jeff

Thank you for your replies. Its refreshing to know that people care. I talk to my boyfriend about this stuff but he isn't diabetic so he doesn't really understand. I still live at home so its really hard living with three nondiabetics because they eat whatever they want whenever the want and they've tried to change what they eat but its harder for them since they don't really have to. I've stopped eating fast food which I used to do all the time for lunch for work and I have boughten like tv dinner type things that are low carb like the healthy choice type things. I don't smoke as someone had mentioned and I don't drink or do drugs either. My sister and I just went and bought a tredmill so I figured that was step in the right direction into losing weight and to helping my sugars stay low and my doctor has said that once I start excercising and losing weight we can talk about slowly taking me of my medications. I understand that it is important to test yourself but I mean when I test myself if its high, I am not on insulin so I can't do anything to lower it besides exercise and if I am at work or in class then I can't go do that so right now I have in the mind set whats the point. I know I shouldn't but I do. Thanks for all the support.

When you test and the BS is high, move, squirm, wiggle, or whatever it takes to move muscles, it will help!! If BS is too high after a meal that is telling you to make wiser choices of food and smaller portions. You may need to eat a light snack between meals but keep them very low, maybe lower than 15 carbs.

Eating lean meat and green veggies will go a long ways in controlling diabetes. Starches are guilty of raising BS too high for many of us. Losing weight if overweight will help the insulin resistance to improve. Many type 2 diabetics are insulin resistance, that is does not allow the insulin work like it should.