Ah, Mr. Pining and I feel your pain. We are both diabetic or borderline. I would not take the drugs for type 2 diabetes. They lower blood sugar, but that has not proven to do anything other than treat the numbers. In fact, it gives people a false sense of assurance that things are OK. No study has shown that hypoglycemic drugs reduce long-term outcomes.
Ditto for statins.
As for what you experience in the morning, it could be what is known as the “dawn effect”. There are forums at the ADA website and there is a lot of info there. Unfortunately, the folks there have bought into the current prescription to test blood sugar frequently ( a boon to strip makers) and are gung ho on oral meds.
The sad thing is, that if people develop complications after several years, doctors are convinced the patient was non-compliant rather than questioning if all the testing and “treating the numbers” is really effective.
I do test often, though not as often as the doctor suggests. The weird thing about that is that I can test and get one result, test immediately and get another result that is as much as 10 points one way or the other. Given that 10 points is enough to merit a label of diabetic or not diabetic, how can anybody be sure of anything?
My A1C has never been over the top so, the whole thing drives me nuts.