@pollensa type2s take insulin to control their high bgs.
Insulin is given in cases where no other med or diet/exercise has been effective. High bgs kill. Just like too much insulin, injected or naturally produced, without a very busy liver can cause hypos and in no insulin produced diabetics this can cause coma and in some cases death.
Hypers are treated with insulin in all diabetics. Natural insulin or injected/interviened insulin. Ketones are only are caused by no insulin or not enough insulin.
Insulin saves lives! For type2s too.
I often remind myself I'm currently an morbidly obese insulin taker but alive. I'm working on being... not overweight but still being alive. More alive, if possible. (Work in progress.) Awaiting bariatric surgery to stop my health deterioating faster than it should do, due to 40+yrs of diabetes symptoms. I'm wrigged with hormone discrepancies in my fat filled body.
My priory is getting rid of fat to help my diabetes management - and other hormonal problems. Managing an insulin regime additionally to that.
The older I'm getting the more my body reminds me I'm only human. My younger insulin filled body was extremely strong, stronger than some men's body building capacities. Sporty but very muscle filled with fat attached. I've jogged with professional footballers and swam with athletes but due to a nipped S1 in my lower back and excruciating scatica I'm sometimes painkiller resistant. Like insulin resistant and many meds.
I'm on my 3rd course of antibiotics, this year. Luckily all worked for different infections. Bacterial from a very very curious toddler minded 5yr old who has learning disadvantages.
Maybe due to less energy from Iron deficiency and uncontrollable diabetes our home wasn't has bacterial free from my normal constant spraying and wiping. I know his school has struggled with their scarlet fever outbreak before we court anything.
It was inevitable I'd get something.
Fast forward me a few years and I should be far less fat filled, hormonal and much more mobile.
Far less resistant !!!!
However, I've been told I may still need insulin. We'll see.
I'll do my very best to see what my body needs.. .. extra insulin wise.
For me taking insulin isn't a chore. Just like brushing teeth or combing hair. I've done for pregnancies and now so I don't rot away. I don't mind taking my triple strength insulin to keep me awake and functioning.