@Sage04 wrote:
@Trinity11 wrote:
@FranandZoe wrote:
Insulin is the best choice for Type 2s. When I was first diagnosed with diabetes I was against taking it but now there are types of insulin that you take once daily - even twice - without having to check your glucose numbers and adjust your carbs/protein.
Insulin is rarely the best choice for Type 2 diabetics as it is a fat building hormone and the last thing most Type 2 diabetics need is to gain weight. Only when all other choices have been exhausted should a Type 2 diabetic incorporate insulin into their treatment plan. You are talking about background insulin BASAL insulin that is usually taken once per day, sometimes twice. You always need to check your blood glucose levels because you can go too low (hypoglycemia) resulting in coma or death if not immediately corrected. All diabetics Type 1 and Type 2 who use insulin need to adjust their insulin to their food intake. Not testing and not making sure that food intake matches insulin useage is a recipe for disaster.
Signed,
A Type 1 diabetic for more than fifty years.
@Trinity11 I have a question for you. What if your blood glucose level is a little too high, what could be done? I don't mean daily. Just in case you ate something that affect it then. If this has happened to you, what did you do?
Do you mean if you perhaps ordered a Diet Coke and the waiter brought you Coke instead @Sage04 ? When an unexpected high comes from a dietary mishap, it is dependent upon how high. After a real Coke, I can immediately jump to a 400 blood sugar that I would need to treat with insulin. Every hour I would check, thereafter for about 3 hours trying not to overtreat. If I ate pizza and went to 250, I would take a few units extra to bring it down. A few points beyond target blood sugars, I would leave alone rather than risking hypoglycemia. I hope that helps...😊