anyone diabetic type 2? Need advice please Help!

Have you had any other tests done? Like the Hemoglobin A1C? I think that's also done to give you an indication of your average blood sugar over a few months. Has the Dr put you on an suggested eating plan? I'm not an expert on this, I'm not diabetic. Is your doctor a specialist or a GP? I would definitely seek nutritional guidance even if you go the medication route.

My blood sugars normalized after I lost about forty pounds and I am on no meds now. But some people end up type 2 regardless.

Btw - I didn't eat any special foods or eliminate anything. I definitely reduced some foods to lose weight but I eat everything - just in moderation and smaller portions. I stay within my calorie goal.

Yep! I've been a type 2 diabetic for probably 20 years but didn't know it for 10 of those years and ignored it for another 8 years until my toes became numb--then I got serious about fixing it. First I was put on Metformin (a pill, 2x/day) but that didn't do much for me, then the doctor added a slow-acting insulin (Levemir) injection at night, which helped a little but not enough, then he added fast-acting insulin (Humalog) injections with each meal (breakfast, lunch & dinner) and that really did the trick for getting my blood sugars down (from 300 in February2015, down to about 95 now).

I avoided doing anything about my diabetes for years because I just didn't think I could deal with giving myself injections but eventually I realized I had to go that route for the time being or risk even more complications than numb toes. Now, with MyFitnessPal and really watching my intake of food (& tracking) along with monitoring my blood sugars before & after meals, I've just about eliminated my insulin injections (from 25 units/meal in February2015 down to about 3-4 units/meal now) and hope to get to the point of needing no insulin in a few months. A pleasant "side effect" of getting my blood sugars under control was a decrease in cravings for carbs which always seemed to derail my dieting efforts.

Your 186 number is from a fasting glucose test which isn't really a good indicator for diabetes (my fasting glucose was fine for years because I typically ate one very big meal per day at lunch time and by the following morning my fasting glucose numbers were fine but my after-meal blood sugar numbers were awful {250-400 or more depending on the meal}). Like others here have recommended, I'd ask your doctor to order a hemoglobin A1C test (another blood test for the lab) as it's a much better indicator of diabetes and just how bad (or not so bad) it really is.

Yes, losing weight helps with improving blood sugar numbers so whatever you can do to make that happen would go a long way to getting your blood sugar numbers down. Exercise may help somewhat but you can't really out-exercise a bad diet so monitoring your food intake (amounts & types) can be far more helpful (& powerful) than exercise alone.

Get the A1C. It is a better test. If you are diagnosed as diabetic, you should be on the medication. Then lower your calories and lose weight.

Oh, and I didn't mention this because it's pretty much a "given" for anyone who is Insulin Resistant (IR) -- I stay away from SUGAR! This means no soda -- water is a much better beverage! Also, no sugar in my coffee and desserts only on occasion (such as a birthday & even then, only a "sliver" of the cake). I even switch out the very "sweet" or high-glycemic fruits for the lower-glycemic ones, such as instead of oranges, I'll have grapefruit and instead of regular apples, I'll have the green apples, etc. It takes a little getting used to, but it's really not a very big deal. It's automatic for me now and I don't even think about it. I just stay away from SUGAR.