Well damn, I've just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes as well.
So far they haven't mentioned diet, only to take Metformin. They also said my blood pressure and cholesterol were the high end of normal so because of the diabetes diagnosis I've got drugs for those as well.
But this is literally all within the last few weeks, so they still have time to add something about food.
Hopefully everything stabilises out nicely for you, and I, and a new stasis level comes around soon.
Ha, got high cholesterol and blood pressure was borderline too. They offered me statins, but was of the view that restricted diet + Metformin + statins was too much at once. They gave the impression, statins were up to me, as my readings weren't that bad.
Metformin has been a ball ache as I have a long commute and find I am half way to work before I realise I haven't taken it, but am getting better at remembering.
Going to see how my cholesterol is after the diet and take it from there. With a bit of luck I won't need any of the drugs in 6 months. If cholesterol is still high, will probably take the statins.
Weird question, but how much do you test your blood? Turns out one of the other blokes at work was also diagnosed recently. He has been told to test his blood twice a day; me once a week. His sounds more extreme though. Reading around, different sources say entirely different things, so might just do twice a week or something not too extreme.
I had a blood pressure and blood test, a month later I had another one - that confirmed the diabetes diagnosis and was when they said to start on the Metformin
2 weeks after that they had a blood pressure follow up and that's when they suggested the bp medicine and Statins - but they suggested to delay starting the Statins for a couple of weeks afterwards
That is about now - and I have another bloods appointment today
So, I think, that means they're still in the process of deciding what the appropriate framework should be and there's no immediate crisis likely (maybe?).
I use a recurring alarm on my phone to tell me to take the drugs, but also my wife checks at least 4 times a day that I'm going to take the one's coming up and have taken the one's just gone 😄