For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my blood sugar struggles. Like many adults in their late forties who have not yet received a diabetes diagnosis but know something is metabolically wrong, I had been managing a constellation…
I treat patients with hypertension daily. I write prescriptions for ACE inhibitors and ARBs and beta-blockers as routinely as I write referrals. I understand the pharmacology of antihypertensive medication at the molecular level. And for the last three years, I…
My name is Dr. Patricia Okoye. I am forty-eight years old and I am a board-certified family medicine physician in a group practice in Ohio. Approximately forty percent of my patient load involves management of type 2 diabetes or prediabetes…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my blood sugar struggles. Like many adults in their mid-forties who have not yet received a formal diabetes diagnosis but recognize something is metabolically wrong, I had been quietly living with…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my blood sugar struggles. Like many adults in their mid-forties with a family history of type 2 diabetes, I had been watching my fasting glucose numbers creep upward year by year…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my fluctuating energy levels and lack of physical confidence. Like many people, I brushed off the afternoon crashes, the persistent brain fog, and the constant feeling that my metabolism had lost…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my fluctuating energy levels and the lack of physical confidence they caused. Like many people, I brushed off the afternoon crashes, the persistent brain fog, and the constant feeling that my…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my fluctuating blood sugar levels and the lack of physical confidence they caused. Like many people, I brushed off the afternoon energy crashes, the constant thirst, and the nagging feeling that…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my fluctuating energy levels and lack of physical confidence. Like many people, I brushed off the afternoon crashes, the persistent brain fog, and the constant feeling that my metabolism had lost…
I am a forty-eight-year-old internal medicine physician who has spent nineteen years telling patients what uncontrolled blood sugar does to the body. I know the A1C trajectories. I know the microvascular damage timelines. I know what chronically elevated postprandial glucose…