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Welcome!! Don't be afraid.. this is a very manageable disease.. and an 8.5 is a warning shot across the bow but not as a bad as many of us started with.. But this is not the thread to get you started properly :).. this is a daily number report thread. Why don't you start a new thread in the...

I've been injecting insulin with the Flex Pens for 9 years and I just inject right through shirt sort of just under the table at a restaurant. No need to go to bathroom. If you use vials then harder to do in public though I've seen that too. The Flex Pens are super convenient but more expensive...

I take 46iu Levemir before bed and 6 more iu in am.. 3-5 iu of Novolog with meals. After met gave me nothing but stomach distress.. I went to insulin.. Never looked back.. BG's between 95-130 all day every day.. A1C 6.1 and holding. Happy!

An actually "sense" of humor is all about not needing someone to come right out and signal "joke coming!".. .

Well 30-60 days and 6.5 weeks are about the same according to my 6th grade math.. Lol.. Not sure why you questioned my numbers there.. But we agree. Met simply is intolerable to some/many of us.

Just start low. In units. And go up one unit a day.. until numbers start coming into alignment.. A low doesn't feel great - but just keep some orange juice on hand.. And some Glucose tabs on you (like sugar candy).. It'll take about 5 minutes for glucose to get into system and take away the...

Same here. Finger pricks are worse..

Well - the docs will tell you, as they did me, to tough it out with the gastric stuff - that your body will acclimate in 30-60 days.. Uggh.. Even that would feel like an eternity.. But I toughed it out for 6 months!!! And that daily - "I better not leave my house" did get better over time. But...

those "horse pills" we're very hard for me to swallow as well. But that wasn't the reason I stopped. It was the gastric distress with Metformin ER/Glucophage. I begged my doctor to go on injections and I never looked back. It's work perfectly for me for several years now. You gotta watch how...

Invokana definitely T2 only!

I use the same needle for DAYS! Until I start to feel the pin prick which means its getting dull. 4-6 days usually.

The suffix you meant to say is "vaSTATin" not "VASTin".. And all statins end in "-vastatin" or "-statin". All are made basically the same way and have the same list of potential side effects. No one is better than another at lowering LDL. They all do that effectively.. The issue is the inactive...

Well done, Libby!! And actually, LittleWolf, 3.8-4.9 is non-diabetic. 5.0-5.6 is pre-diabetic. 5.7 and above is diabetic.

Me too.. But all medical science now purports that "inflammation" is the reason any small dense particles stick to artery walls. People eager to avoid statins should be reading up on how to decrease inflammation in the body. Sadly - stress is one of the main causes of inflammation. Statins...

Agreed to the 'one size fits all' approach letting us ALL down. If Type 2 Diabetes were an 'easy sum up'.. Medical science would be able to cure it. They're having so much trouble finding out the 'triggers' of the disease. I have to agree with Sid Bonkers here that a 'better lifestyle' is just...

Be careful, folks, that we don't miss the forest for the trees in the issue of the Lipids profile. First - Viv -- I think it was you-- Trigs are 99% genetic in nature. Most all of the diabetics I've interviewed over the years - and Borofergie and you are great examples too - show clearly that...

Good to see you too, Borofoge! It's not that you'll have to apologize for anything. There's simply a profile you haven't had access to yet. And now you will. You'll know how 'ready' your heart is to deal with the lifestyle you're 'eating'. Hey - there's even a lot of research out there - that...

Yes, that's the real killer. We always have to look very closely at these studies. They will often monkey around with the 'fat' % number but the carb number stays constant or increases. The deadliest diet is the high carb/high fat - and, of course, any diet with HF as a centerpiece for a person...

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn Sure does. All humans have a built in 'correction mechanism' that releases glucose from the liver when we haven't eaten for long periods. Because T2's have poor 1st phase insulin response - and see this a lot in the am (almost all of...

Great to hear from you Sanober. I'm glad you got a solid diagnosis. That makes all the difference in the world. Knowing that you're 1.5 kinda pushes insulin into the picture no matter what. And let's face it - insulin just gives you more 'choices' period. You do have to watch how you eat. The...