Currently taking Metformin...since I started on it I have very little appetite...not really interested in food...losing weight rapidly (not such a bad thing )... yesterday after what I thought were bad /high test results threw a real strop...I do eat in order to take the metformin having stupidly taken it on an empty stomach the day before...and suffered the full side effects of 'Metformin Revenge'...not sure if I am eating enough...don't know how to deal with that...
Reading your profile, it seems you were diagnosed in July? On that basis, your body has a lot to get used to (never mind your head). It takes time for changes to become the new normal, and sometimes the bit in the middle can get a bit bumpy.
One of the known benefits/side-effects of Metformin is it suppresses appetite and can, for some people, help quite significantly where the individual could, ideally, benefit from trimming up. On that basis, over the shorter term, I would be unconcerned about reduced appetite and trimming up. Many would say the medication is showing signs of working on you.
When you wonder if you are eating enough, nobody can really tell you that, without an understanding of both what you are now usually eating, how long you've been eating in that way, and an indication of how different that is to your pre-diagnosis way of eating. I appreciate that doesn't really answer your question.
One, very important thing I would say is that our bodies like to work with a routine. They are happiest when we're running "in the groove" and just ticking over. A diagnosis, such as ours (and I understand you've had a number of things crop up in recent times) gets our systems all a bit befuddled. Clearly, I can't make any comment on anything else you're currently handling, but when it comes to your diabetes, it is likely that your blood numbers have been elevated for a little while. If your HbA1c was elevated, that reflects the period of several weeks before diagnosis, so it's a relatively safe assumption. With T2, our levels have probably been creeping up for a while, and our bodies got used to that, until we had symptoms, or were diagnosed as a result of another condition/tests or whatever.
From that point on, we're trying to bring our bloods back into a lower range, and our bodies object. Sometimes they object a lot. It tries to hang onto those higher levels, by making "donations" to our blood sugars from our liver (which stores "spare" glucose for unexpected turns of events), and this can sometimes lead to those readings we just can't explain. We've haven't eaten much, and we've been good, yet the pesky reader insists on displaying a big number! However, over time, our body gets used to things, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it gets used to you producing the lower numbers (by virtue of your eating, meds and any exercise you are taking), and secondly it gets a bit bored of chucking glucose at something somewhat futile - in other words, it gets with the programme!
It strikes me, that you are in the bumpy part of that transition, but the message from this corner is be consistent. Keep being good. Don't give up. If we give up and go back to our old ways, the work we have done wouldn't exactly have been wasted, but it does mean we need to go through some of that bumpy trip again. It's a sort of withdrawal.
I don't know if that helps at all, but I hope it might just a bit.
