I wish that I wasn't posting this now! My name is Joanne and I am recently diagnosed insulin resistant. I had gestational diabetes when I was carrying my first child, and was retested because of a few symptoms some months ago. My HbA1c was 7.3.

I am coping right now with just diet management and hope to keep it that way for as long as possible. My recent HbA1c came back at 5.7 and so I got the go ahead to stay of meds for a while, at least until this progresses which I assume it eventually will.

It's nice to see this place anyway, because I am sure I will have a ton of questions in the near future.

Hi Joanne and welcome to the forum! There are lots of people willing to share their stories with you! There is lots of info, and feel free to ask anything!

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Welcome joann, I'm glad to see you here. I hope we get to conversate in the near future.

Thank you! I am seeing that there really is a ton of reading I need to do here already-after just a few days away there are two pages of new posts! I am really working hard on management through diet and exercise. It may be an impossible dream but if I can stay off meds for good, I would be a very, very happy person.