anyone diabetic type 2? Please Help!

There are a number of people on these boards who have worked their way off of medication.

My endocrinologist told me that for pregnancy you should really have an A1C of 7% or less to minimize complications. I have Type II diabetes. I had two children before being diagnosed and I had Gestational Diabetes through each pregnancy. You can have a very healthy pregnancy with diabetes but you need to keep tight control of your blood sugar.

If you want to start a family, it might be wise to begin seeing both an endocrinologist and an OBGYN to see what you need to do to prepare your body for pregnancy.

@1lexisva I know there are some here on MFP that have managed Type 2 with diet. One sub forum is found at:

community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group

With that being said at 186 with A1C of 11 you may expect brain to toe damage is already going on.

While you may be able to start moving your numbers in the next couple days/weeks by going off of grains and carbs cold turkey but having done that a year ago myself it was a hellish two weeks but I am nearly twice your age and did not have time to mess around due to the doctors wanted to start me on Enbrel injections for pain manage. Thankfully 30 days after my total diet change my pain was managed by diet only very well. I was not diabetic.

Again if you can not lose all grains and most all sugar sources like now I think you should rethink your doctor's medical advice. Later you can still make diet changes and see if you can start to back out of meds with diet change under the doctor's care. You do not want to lose good vision due to untreated diabetes or take a chance of increasing the odds of disease like Alzheimer's.

Please do some Googling on the subject. I just finished Wheat Belly Total Health (2014) by William Davis MD. He spells out how to treat diabetes with diet. The book is $10/$20 digital/hard back and I suggest you read it this weekend. Time is not on your side. Others out there may have numbers worse than yours but your numbers need attention now if you are thinking about having more children in my personal view.

well i am over 60 and on borderline for dibetes with sugar level around 7, and trying my best to stay off medication and control through food choices and exercise, usually its sedatory lifestyle and lots of food seem to be the problem, water fasting one a month seem to help

I disagree with a previous poster on here because I do think that at 11% you should be on medication. This can all change in the future. I'm on medication now. I hope to lessen my dose or maybe even get off of medication over the next 12 months as I lose weight.

And you can avoid permanent damage. Please don't be discouraged. You can avoid or prolong the onset of complications by doing something here and now.

With an A1C of 11% I am surprised your doctor told you that you "may" be diabetic. Guidelines are 6.5% or higher indicates diabetes. With that being said it is entirely possible to change your diet and come off of medications, I am a home care nurse and in the past 10 years I have seen it happen when people really want it to. I have to agree with above posts, it is more than just "not eating sugar". Your body turns carbs into sugar which causes your blood sugar to rise. Carb counting is essential to EVERY diabetic, if you want to keep your blood sugar under control you have to understand how the carbs you are eating are effecting your sugar, some diabetics can take having a sweet treat once in a while and it not effecting them where others have to stay completely away (every "body" is different). Diabetes is not something to play with, it can cause so much damage to a person's body if not controlled well and even causes damage when it is controlled.

My husband is, and if you have to take meds, you have to take meds, so if that's what your doctor says, you need to do that. You'll need to make sure you get a good idea of what and when you eat. This is a case where time of eating does actually matter! Your doctor should also help you with determining what your carb and sugar goals should be for each meal, or at the very least, refer you to a licensed nutritionist to help with that. As said above, it's not just avoiding foods with sugar, you have to also control the carbs you eat because that gets converted to sugar as well. And yes, if you've developed T2 from being overweight, losing the weight will probably correct that and you'll be able to eventually go off meds (though you will probably still have to be careful with your sugars afterwards still).

Best get it taken care of NOW before it causes permanent damage.

I am going to try and remember to update this once I get my next A1C to show you the progress I've made. I'm pretty sure mine will be much lower and I can go very soon to get my next work up.