anyone here with type-2 diabetes?

[Don Flamenco]

Just wondering what it's like...the severity of your symptoms and all that.  I've had more than a couple people tell me, online and offline, that I should see a doctor after describing them my day and how I feel throughout it, so I'm considering it. 

it's usually like this:
--I get 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night
--wake up at 7:30, eat either cereal or a bagle with butter, some carrot sticks, orange juice, coffee or tea, maybe some slices of canadian bacon.  I leave for class around 9, class starts at 10.

--by 12, which is when I get out of my first class, I'm starting to get a headache and need food badly (yes, gauntlet joke.) I get quizno's or jimmy johns or chipotle...usually something pretty filling.  If I don't eat, I can't think, get dizzy.  I've never fainted...but I have that low blood sugar feeling by lunchtime, even after a decent breakfast.  I usually feel kinda disoriented and irritable.

--next class is at 2, gets out at 3:20, I get back to my apartment around 4:15, and I have to make dinner because I'm just about out of energy by this time.  I eat and usually end up lounging around for a good two hours because I'm completely out of it by this time.  I don't usually get back to my studies until 6 or 7...

it just seems bad that every day I'm completely exhausted by about 4pm.  On the other hand, the exercise I get is from walking around the city and climbing stairs...I don't do anything extra (i'm 5'9" and about 170.)   Even heavy smokers and lazy asses I know seem to have more energy and a higher resistance to not eating than me.  I'm sick of being exhausted all the time...the result is that I stay on top of my work/reading, but I don't have a lick of energy for anything else...even hanging with friends is usually limited by me being tired. 

and it seems lately that when I go out and am up till the wee hours of the morning (2 or 3), even if I've only had 2 or 3 beers, I'm useless the next day. 

[Fragamemnon]

You can go to the doctor and have them run some pretty standard blood tests, which may not be a terrible idea. You can double it up with an physical or even just a flu shot, just work it out with the receptionist.

Can you clean up your diet a bit for a couple of weeks (nothing drastic, just drop the alcohol and pack a lunch instead of eating out, and stick with whole grains/veggies and the usual 'clean eating' foods) and try to do some exercise three or four times a week for 45 minutes a day (even if it just a brisk walk around, enough to keep a somewhat elevated heart rate).

I'd say it's probably diet related, but given that you sound like you are young (college?) and your weight is not really bad the outright big 'beetus doesn't sound too likely. You might, however, have some other diet/exercise related symptoms that are worth looking into correcting.

One more thing if you're really worried is whether you pee a lot. That was always the warning that I've heard about type-2 beetus.

[Don Flamenco]

I don't pee a lot and I think I'm just doing the physical version of "I have aspergers"  

When I first moved out here, I walked about an hour a day and felt great, but have stopped doing that in the past few weeks.  I did it again today and I feel much better already. 

my diet isn't completely horrible, though I should probably eat more veggies.  just very protein heavy. 

[Dickie Dee]

Type 2 diabetes would give you high blood sugars, not low