a few days ago doctor say i am diabetic.
i am not shocked, because my family are diabetic.
my mum was diabetic when pregnant with me. - is it true because of this my chances of being diabetic is higher?
doctor say my sugar is very high. like super high. now go down already but still in 11 to 14 range.

at first when he found out high sugar, first few days he keep on inject insulin when my sugar is higher than 14.
so now no more insulin because below 14. so he gave me 850mg metformin 2 times a day for 2 weeks. then 3 times a day for like 2 to 3 months.

i know what i am getting into and well aware what is going to happen.
but i want to understand what is going on with my body right now. i read here and there but i cannot understand a few issues.

i am supposed to be type 2 diabetis. the doctor didn't explain much. asked the diabetic nurse to coach me.
she say because i whacked too much sugar, so now my pancreas is damaged. cannot produce insulin. so need to cut sugar and eat medicine.

i don't understand, so now is my pancreas damaged and cannot produce as much insulin or am i insulin resistant like what they wrote in medical website?
or cannot determine whether my pancreas is doing fine or just that my cells becoming insulin resistant? you just can't tell?

why am i prescribed metformin? what does it really do? from what i can recall it is supposed to make my cells more sensitive towards insulin and make me produce less excess insulin into my blood stream? i need an answer.

why do they need to treat me like a chronic patient?
"unfortunately, you have to live with it now"
"there's no cure, it is a chronic disease, but you still can control it with healthy lifestyle"

now the problem now is, that metformin is giving me terrible diarrhea.
it happens for a few days already. yesterday no pass motion. i don't know why, but today..

i shit in my pants on my way to work. i cannot control my bowel movements at all. when i need to go, i cannot tahan.
i take public transport to work. i already reached office today but took a cab back home because i shit in my pants.

this week i shit in my pants for 5th time already. now i am having problem getting to work.
i am thinking to quit my job now due to long travelling distance in the morning.

before i take this metformin, i don't feel sick at all. i can run and jump. but this medicine is making me sick and taking a lot of MC this week.
please share your experience with me because i am getting depressed right now.

seriously considering quitting my job and wear adult diapers.

This post has been edited by JeweL_: Jan 20 2017, 12:30 PM

i am considering keto diet..

trying now but hard to find food outside. everything need to prepare myself.
not easy for working adult. and OT days..

why keep on ask me read about the bad parts?

its affecting me, i cant even get to work. like today. i shit in my pants in the taxi. give taxi uncle rm100 and run off.

chubby, can afford to lose 20kg. and i will. last check was 11.5
i stopped eating carbs and sugar.

the day i start is the day i laosai

he say maybe lower to 500mg but 3 times a day.
currently is 850mg 2 times a day.
1 more week later will be 850mg 3 times a day. --- this i am even more afraid.

you are not answering my questions but digging my info only.

i think you don't understand. i see him already. he only give me charcoal meds.
either i continue 850 x 2 or give me new 500 x 3.
i couldn't make a decision. and this is affecting my life.

at the beginning of the thread i wrote i was diagnosed as diabetic a few days ago. what did i wrote that make u think i have been taking metformin for weeks?
i have been taking for like the 5th day only. what is the obvious thing to do now? can just say?

i am repeating again. the next day after i started metformin i already saw him.
he say either 850mg x 2 or buy new 500mg x 3. or do i want to continue my 3 month stock 850mg now.
i said i continue first and see how.

are you guys telling me to take the 500mg option x 3? or should i load up my charcoal pill fix?

if i take the 500mg pills what do i do with the 3 months stock 850mg?

nvm, i wait for the right person to comment.

thanks for your help

raw?

hi, please leave my thread.

oh no, what happened?

it's making me laosai because i no eat carbs and sugar???

i havent touch the charcoal pills because the pharmacist said do not take with other pills. only take 2 hours after the other pill.
maybe i should eat that charcoal pill? i was deceived by yesterday because i take metformin as per normal but didn't shit whole day.

i thought i am constipated because no carbs. oh hell today diarrhea again. tomorrow i have to work too. i can shit at office, it's the journey to office that i am afraid of right now.

please understand my frustration towards this medicine, will i really get over this laosai period? when i up my dose will i laosai even more

the doctor say eat before meal
the nurse say during or after meal, dun listen to doctor
now u say eat after 30mins?

http://www.hovid.com/p/164/diabetmin-850mg-fc-tab

this one