Another q please.

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If the doc would have left me on the 10 mg of glipiside and 1000 mg of met

Forman twice a day, do you think my sugars would have come down this fast? he

said the choice was up to me to go on the insulin or stay on the meds, but his

opinion was my triglycerides of 1400 wouldn't come down with out insulin as I'm

doing now. I have heard some nurses say that you should stay off insulin as long

as you can. they will tell you that insulin by the needle will also kill organs

over time. I have always heard both sides of this issue over the past ten years

that I have been a diabetic. I have also known of some T 2's that go on insulin

to bring there numbers under better control and then go off of it and back to

just pills. do you guys think this is wise? I would think once a T 2 starts

taking insulin by the needle, then they should stay on it from then on to be

sure there numbers stay where they should be. I don't know very many guys here

in OKC who only take pills that have a good A1C if they have been a T 2 for ten

years or longer. I know of many who still take no pills of any kind and there

A1C is still in the safe range, all though they eat like they wish to be on

insulin to morrow. with the way we Americans and the rest of the world now eat,

I wouldn't be surprised if there is 2 times more people right now running around

who are now a T 2 and just don't know it yet. I bet in a few years teenagers

will become a T 2 because of the American diet with fast food. I have noticed by

having people read the labels for me in the grocery store that what the label

says is low fat, actually has all most as many carbs and calories as the real

thing with all the fat! but yet you will watch people throw piles of this junk

in there basket thinking it is ok to eat if you are a diabetic or over weight.

labels are so miss leading. then you go up to the web site of the A D A who are

suppose to have the diabetics best interest at heart and you will be in all

kinds of bad shape if you eat as me carbs as they say to eat in a day. I'm

beginning to think that the drug companies and the A D A are in bed together and

making a pile of money off all the meds they are passing out to cover up the

problem instead of talking to us about life style changes, like eating less

carbs and more exercise. all they want to do is give us more pills and then soon

we take insulin by needle and more pills. then we all keep eating like nothing

is wrong and never do we exercise. my regular doc never ask me about eating less

carbs or how much did I exercise a day and what kind of exercise was I doing?

now I been reading that a lot of thin people are now finding out they got

something that some are saying is maybe a T 3 type of diabetes. kind of like

reactive hypoglo and can't spell the rest. these people don't have a weight

problem at all, but yet they are finding out that there A1C may be around 5, but

there fasting sugar is high. I've heard that they go check it out and drink that

real sweet junk and sit around for a few hours and they watch you and check your

sugar every half hour. so now these thin folks now are finding out they have a

problem as well with spiking sugar and dropping real fast. I know this fellow

who said his sugar can go from as low as 50 to over 160 in a few seconds! this

sounds like it would be harder to treat then T 1 or T 2. so the bottom line it

all falls to refined carbs that people eat these days and not the good carbs.

they say by 2050, one out of every 2 people in the world will be a diabetic!

this is to crazy!