I am a type2 diabetic on insulin. If I stop taking my insulin what will be the effect? How long can I survive without insulin? Appreciate some answers
Seeing as you're on insulin then I assume that you are monitoring your BG levels. If you stop taking your insulin then you will probably see your BG levels steadily creep up over a number of days. Just how high they go will depend on how bad your diabetes currently is, but obviously, letting your BG levels remain high over a long period is very bad for your health.
Instead of stopping your insulin you should be looking at what dietary changes, and (if possible) what exercise regimes, can allow you to lower your insulin intake without leading to BGL rises. For example, after I started a LCHF diet I was able to half my insulin intake while retaining as good or better BGL control. On days when I have a fairly high exercise level I can sometimes even halve that again. To put actual figures to that, I was on 20 units of novamix 30 (10 twice per day), cut that back to 10 to 12 units (5 to 6 twice a day after starting LCHF), and some days if I do a lot of exercise I can skip one of the two injections.
So yes, there may well be strategies you can take to reduce you insulin requirements, and I'd encourage you to do so. However simply stopping your insulin without taking any other measures seems like a silly idea to be honest.