help tooth deal with recent diabetes diagnosis

Hi friends, this is a very difficult thing for me to write and I have been hesitant to do it for some time but on the suggestion of some friends I'm going to, as it seems it is time to look for options to help a hard situation. In August I had an unexpected health scare that sent me to the emergency room one night, after a few months of what had been some troubling on-and-off-again pains in my chest, circulation issues, and occasional trouble breathing. It was all scary as hell and I hadn't been sure what had been causing it, but my mind went to all the worst and darkest places. My anxiety had gotten pretty bad recently due to some compounded upheavals of this year including a still intense grief hanging over me and a substantial physical fatigue from, to be painfully and embarrassingly honest, not being able to afford to eat much (or do much of anything else) over the entire summer due to an extreme financial precarity I'd been in since May when all my previous gig work I had been scraping by on to sustain myself had suddenly dried up. I don't have any kind of safety net to rely on, so these gaps between jobs quickly became a hole that has been increasingly hard to get out of. I mention this because at the time I went to the emergency room, I couldn't discount that I may have been having a panic attack or that the malnourishment and fatigue I had been going through had somehow exacerbated some underlying physical condition previously unknown to me. What I eventually learned after a night in the emergency room and a battery of tests was that the latter was likely partly true. Much to my relief on one hand, nothing seemed to be wrong with my heart or lungs but on the other, alarmingly, my blood sugar was abnormally very high and it seemed all those symptoms were the result of my body tensing up in a diabetic reaction. I ended up leaving with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, which in itself is a whole new world I have to learn how to navigate now.

This is something that runs in my family and I had fears might eventually arise but I believe it may have indeed been triggered recently by all the aforementioned situations and the physical toll it's taken on me. I can't be certain how much, but at the very least I know it hasn't helped! Needless to say it's a major wakeup call and since then I have been on diabetes medication and gone through a lot of life shifts including completely rigorously reworking my diet, quitting drinking, exercising more, and many other needed transformations. There have been very positive changes in my health since but one major hurtle I still have to contend with is that the costs of some of these changes have been financially untenable for me in my currently precarious situation that I have been attempting to scrape by on for far too long. While I have some things in the works that will drastically change and stabilize this in the near future, there is a rough patch between here and there that it pains me to admit, I really need to find help on bridging. This most urgently pertains to the stronger commitment I need to make towards having funds to regularly eat on a new radically restrictive diet (diabetic diet + the gluten intolerance i already have) which is unsustainable in the ways I had previously been acquiring food (mostly from mutual aid/free food fridges and the occasional dumpster, etc). On top of this there are going to be some numerous medical costs incoming eventually that I am gearing up for. I don't quite know the scope of things I will need going forward but a few have become apparent for now. I have started this gofundme as an attempt at coming to terms with the financial toll of the coming changes but don't currently know how much it will require. After ongoing visits with my doctor this will be determined soon but for now I am setting the financial goal at an arbitrary amount that I don't exactly even expect to reach. Really at this point anything helps and I would deeply, deeply appreciate it. It still honestly feels weird and embarrassing to me to share this and to ask this, but I also need to be real about the state of things if I am going to make the necessary life changes that this requires. I can't just survive on the bare minimum I have been for so long and pretend it's ok, because more is at stake now. Just trying find a way to bridge the rough parts right now towards more stable ground, which I do in fact see on the horizon. Thanks for reading this overly long message and again, I am deeply thankful for any help any one could spare.