I posted a couple of months ago asking for prayers, my special needs son who is not obese was diagnosed type 1 diabetic. My second post about it was after blood testing the doctors were baffled he was not type 1, but type 2.
Happy to say he is off insulin now and numbers are staying low. He does take Metformin.
The point of this post is he has no reason to have type 2 diabetes. Except one, he has a complicated medical history and has some brain damage from it. During this time he had some anger issues. The doctors prescribed anti-depressant lexapro. We went along with it, was concerned with his anger.
We weened him off of this medication upon the news of type 2. From research into this drug I am convinced it caused his blood sugar issues. We will attempt to ween off metformin and see if he no longer has any issues after getting off lexapro.
Anti-depressants like lexapro are prescribed at extremely high levels in our society. Diabetes has increased along with it. This is just another example of big pharma and the cdc pushing treatments that are unnecessary and dangerous.
For background see this link
https://greatawakening.win/p/15IYCoKMxE/update--prayers-answered--thank-/
I am not ruling the meds out, not by any means. Big pharma never gets off the hook with me. I was asking about diet, because that could be causing more issues with the meds. It seems you are right on point with care and diet for your child. Have you tried Ketogenic diet? This has helped myself with diabetes, I was type 2. After a few weeks in Keto I never took a metformin again, and lost a ton of weight. Keto diet is more natural, and the brain responds better to esating fat as a primary food source. Rather than relying on fructose, and other sugars.
We have not tried keto, my brother has and it has helped him with weight as long as he stays on it.
I think it would be very hard on my son, with his mental condition. I dont think he would understand it If it were me I would try it, but I feel he would struggle with it.
We will see, going to try and ween off metformin soon. He may be ok with a moderate carb diet. I will say prior to his blood sugar issues he did eat too much carby snacks. I am sure that played into it as well.