I have spent my morning looking into CBD oil as I am willing to try anything to help me get my blood sugars down to my target. Has anyone tried it and if you have, did you notice a difference ?
Type 1 Diabetes is recognised as an auto-immune disease. Your own body attacks the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Cannabis extracts can indeed help to regulate your immune system. Whether or not it will help in your case is not clear, but I would suggest that, as CBD extracts (and full-spectrum Cannabis oil) are, for all practical purposes, non-toxic to humans, you have nothing to fear in trying them. Go for a high-strength extract not one from a well-known High Street retailer. There certainly are cases where T1D patients have reported been able to reduce their insulin doses after using Cannabis extracts, although those cases don't meet the "gold standard" of medical research as yet.
If you want to try a full-spectrum extract, that's not quite as simple as the government insists that it's a dangerous drug with no medical applications despite the fact that the US Government holds a patent (number 6630507) titled "Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants" issued on October 7, 2003. The British Government practices similar hypocracy in that British Sugar has a permit to grow 45 acres of Cannabis near King's Lynn that GW Pharmaceuticals uses to produce a full-spectrum extract, despite their claims that Sativex contains only CBD and THC. The UK is the world's largest exporter of Cannabis products, Cocaine, and Heroin, and it's all legal for the companies, but not for individuals.
You'll be told that "more research is needed". But how do you do double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, peer-reviewed research on a plant that is prohibited? Anyhow, there's plenty of research that does support the medical uses of Cannabis including using it as a treatment for Auto-Immune diseases that has been done in Israel and other places where Cannabis is legal, even if it's just scratching the surface of the possible applications for the plant.
You'll also be told that Cannabis extracts that contain THC have "side-effects". Yeah, THC makes you high, but the effect passes as you develop a tolerance for THC. Besides, what's so terrible about feeling mild euphoria? It's horrible having T1D and a "side-effect" of feeling good doesn't seem so bad to me. Of course, you'll avoid driving a vehicle or operating machinery while you are high. Common sense applies to Cannabis just the same as it does to the myriad of prescribed drugs that make you incapable of safely driving or operating machinery.
Edit
According to various reports, British Sugar is growing a low-THC (0.2% or lower) high-CBD strain at Wissington for use by GW Pharmaceuticals to make Epidiolex (or, as they put it, "Anti-seizure medicine for children"), so I got that wrong. I have read that the high-THC strain used to make Sativex is grown at the Porton Down government chemical weapons research facility.