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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
The question also works in reverse.
As a T2 would you decide to inject insulin so that you could eat (more or less) anything on the menu?
I know at least one T2 who made that decision on diagnosis.
Test BG, calculate carbs in meal, inject.
No requirement to change lifestyle apart from insulin calculations.
I wouldn't because i hate needles and also am aware that hypos could affect my ability to drive.
However it does seem a valid choice.
Always assuming that you are not over producing insulin already, in which case I think it would make things worse not better.
The OP possibly made that decision.
However, not for me!
Isn’t that what the nhs has historically told type 2 to do? Eat as normal and when that causes high blood sugars (ultimately) take insulin?
And don’t the vast majority of type 2 over produce insulin already (at least in the earlier years til their exhausted, poor hardworking pancreas runs dry)? So it will be making those people worse......