What this has actually been like, and everything that goes with it.
A free pharmacy screening picked it up in 2015. I've had type 2 ever since — about ten years now.
People ask me for my numbers. I don't put blood results in public — not mine, not anyone's — and I'll never ask you to show me yours. Numbers are between you and your doctor, and a page like this is the wrong place for them.
What I will tell you is that there were six years in there of running and lifting and doing everything I'd been told, and nothing much moved. That's the part of this I'd want you to hear if you only heard one part.
I was on prescription medication that whole time, and I still am. It hasn't changed.
My own doctor has been in charge of my treatment throughout, and yours stays in charge of yours.
That's my personal experience over about ten years. It isn't typical, it isn't what I'm offering you, and it isn't a plan.