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what medication were you put on? The meds should start bringing your glucose numbers down within a few weeks. Make sure you eat properly during the first few weeks and call your endocrinologist if anything doesn't feel right. While you are on vacation start making changes in your eating - order a salad instead of fries, take the bun or bread and throw it away - you will learn quickly how small changes make a huge difference.

I was afraid when I was first diagnosed but soon realized there are so many Type 2 diabetics in the world that we are truly lucky now - there are meds other than insulin shots for us to take, low carb eating is much more widely accepted and this is a part of your life that you will really have to take control of to make things better for you.

Don't use it as an excuse because the way you have been eating have lead up to this point. My mother was diagnosed last March, I was in July and my husband was sitting at his cardiologist office in October and said he was feeling "funny" so I took his blood sugar (don't ask why I'd never done it before but something told me to) - it was 455 - the cardiologist said we should probably go to Emergency - instead I called my endocrinologist and got him in within a half hour. When we got home we knew his A1C reading, he had been briefed on diabetes and had a prescription for glyb/metformin. Of the 3 of us with diabetes I am the only one following Atkins - my mother's endocrinologist isn't strict with her because of her age....my husband and I have the same endocrinologist but because he's a heart patient "they" don't believe Atkins is good for him...that's all he needed as the excuse not to get healthy. I believe in the plan and am living by it - you can to.

Good luck -