Have not posted here for a while. Still injecting fast acting insulin but would like to eliminate all diabetes drugs. I've injected Byetta, then Victoza, and now humalog insulin. Injecting with a pen in your stomach is no big deal and after doing it 3-4 times a day, you become really good at it. I'm starting a program to get off all diabetes drugs through a medical office, using just nutrition and extensive medical tests. The new doctor thought I might be 1.5 LADA rather than type 2, but the tests showed I'm not a 1.5 afterall. They are using a nutrition protocol, but seem confused about inflammatory foods vs. high allergen type foods in the first phase of elimination diet. So I continued taking me insulin but had to restrict my diet initially to no grains, dairy, soy, only low glycemic fruits at midday, and lots of almond milk, nuts seeds, etc. So a very low glycemic diet. My blood sugars started coming down gradually but at one point I had gained 11 pounds probably from being more diligent with my insulin injections, and their requirement that I eat animal protein every 2.5 hours. Probably anyone would gain weight doing this. So what I've found is I'm the only one who seems to know anything about nutrition for diabetes, period. I just read an article in Diabetes Forecast magazine that showed a graph on average HbA1C for type 1 diabetics, by age, for 26,000 patients. Not a single average HbA1C by age was under 7.0%. This shocked me as I thought type1s would have better control than this as damage to your retina and kidneys starts at the low 6%. We learn something new every day when it comes to diabetes.