About year ago I moved across the country. My former PCP had diagnosed me with Type 2 diabetes back in like 2018 and put me on medication (metformin) to control it. She wanted to put me on insulin too, but I was hesitant. I wanted to see what I could accomplish with diet and exercise, which seemed kooky to her because my whole family was diagnosed Type 2 and had begun medicating for it before my age.
So the move brought a lot of changes, including my primary care, but I had been being more circumspect at meal time and doing OMAD/time restricted eating for maybe 4 months when I moved (one year ago). it took me about 6 months to get myself set up with the new employer’s insurance and a new provider.
New provider intakes me and because capitalism, my records take forever to follow me despite multiple requests. New PCP tells me my labs are all normal, not diabetic. Also my lipids are great (cholesterol etc). She wants to step me off medicating for diabetes and run labs every 90 days
I have been off meds for 6 months with repeatedly “normal” labs, so new PCP is officially withdrawing the Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis today.
Great job! That is not an easy thing to accomplish.
That is amazing, congratulations!!
Hell yeah- pancreatic BETA cells? Nahh you got ALPHA cells
Oh wait fuck I googled it and you literally do have alpha cells too lol.
keeping the joke thoughDo you think they just started with “cell type 2”? Or do you think the guys who first pointed at microscope at a pancreas genuinely thought that the cell looked like a total beta? Because either one is possible in medicine.
Closest thing to a meme I found:
Oh no theres pancreas memes. Just go to medical student social media. Or rather dont do that because none of the memes are funny
Lmao. Had a med student friend crash in our apartment for a while - funniest thing he did was bring over bed bugs lol
Rather that than the memes tbh
True - there’s no archive.org for bedbugs lol
Unless they write for the NYT :p
[my pancreas] 
Stronk!!
Woop woop!! Congrats. Great news.
Even if you did have T2DM weird for them to want to start insulin that’s like 5th line Therapy at this point
there were a few things the former APRN (it’s all APRNs now, isn’t it? doctors are for rich people or something.) prescribed me that when i looked them up… i felt like i was just another profit center in a medication distribution system. without getting too detailed, my former PCP worked for the same organization as I did, at a clinic that was only for employees of the organization. i only went there because it was very convenient and didn’t interfere with work. total coincidence that it was the way that it was, i’m sure.
my new employer is like a whole different deal. there’s a union, it has power. i picked my provider and it feels more like we’re having a conversation. and it was an unfamiliar thing to get used to, but they listen to me when i talk. freaked me out at first, because it was so novel of an experience in a clinical setting where it feels like what they’re really doing is parsing your answers for information they think is relevant, ignoring the rest, and following some administrative flow chart… so advocating for oneself without making an emotional scene involves some like meta-conversation where you try to use the keywords they are attuned to.
anyway, the new place i can just be some guy, speculate and have opinions like a human right on the fly.
Hell yeah! Awesome job!
This is amazing!
