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There's a reason that this part of the forum is dead, despite most Type 2 patients eventually needing insulin - it's because we are constantly inundated with admonitions to avoid insulin because it will supposedly worsen our disease, and constant pushing of a diet which is not the solution for...

There's a new version coming out soon which will automatically send data periodically to your phone, etc. So the current 3rd party products which add that functionality to the current version probably aren't worth the cost anymore - or will be on sale soon :)

Please provide a link to the peer-reviewed, published research which indicates that insulin ever causes insulin resistance. Otherwise, it's just scare-mongering which can be extremely harmful in making people avoid a medication when they need it.

No, additional insulin does not make the situation worse - insulin resistance merely means that more insulin is needed to have the same impact as it would in someone without insulin resistance.

This is not true. Most Type 2 diabetics eventually need insulin. If you feel that a different diet changes this, please point me to the published, peer-reviewed research. I'm not interested in a book some guy is selling. This is also not true. Insulin resistance is caused by many factors...

I just started on insulin myself a few weeks ago, so have been reading up a lot. Basically it's helpful to start on insulin as soon as it's clear that other meds and lifestyle changes aren't sufficient. Research shows that most Type 2's will need insulin eventually, though it might take over a...

"Drivers" doesn't mean that that they only cause HF, and not vice versa. It also means that they interact with each other to exacerbate the entire situation: "Thus, epidemiological evidence implies a bidirectional association between HF and T2DM (Figure 1), with one increasing the incidence and...

I don't eat particularly low carb for medical reasons, but I do skip on carbs in the morning since I'm always high when I wake up and it takes hours for my blood sugar to go down to a reasonable level, even with meds. My fiance is Type 1 and has also switched from cereal to bacon & eggs in the...

This article is a review of treatments forthe combination of Diabetes and Chronic Heart Failure: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/39/48/4243/5123540 It looks at the evidence of outcomes for various diabetes meds used in patients with heart failure, as well as the likely impact...

This is pretty good, usually considered borderline diabetic or well-controlled. Urea and electrolytes in blood, basically checking kidney function. It looks like normal is <5, so that seems to be very elevated. It's the most common cause of Type 1 diabetes This should be around 15 or lower...

It's a short flexible cannula which is inserted in the arm, not a needle. A needle is only used during the insertion process, then it comes right back out again and is thrown away with the rest of the application device. More generally, the instructions my fiance got said that they can walk...

Metformin can cause lactic acidosis symptoms in people who are susceptible. And the mitochondrial dysfunction which can cause susceptibility to lactic acidosis can also cause diabetes, though it's very rare compared to Type 1 and Type 2. If metformin's making you feel bad, talk to your doctor...

I've gone cyborg :-)

It's not uncommon for fasting blood sugar to be higher than it should in diabetics who otherwise have excellent control, and it's often not really a problem. It's just how some bodies react to waking up. Pre-meal readings before lunch and dinner, when I haven't eaten for several hours, have...

Sounds like they're trying to reduce expenses by killing off their patients. So just the usual, pretty much :-P

Thank you for the info. I spoke to my GP on Friday on the phone (I can't sit up long enough for a visit), and she seemed pretty clueless about constant hyperglycemia being a somewhat urgent problem, especially combined with my other illness. Her first suggestion was to get me tested for...

My fiance and I both use it, and he has Type 1 as well (I don't). It measures glucose in interstitial fluid instead of blood, so measurements from the Libre can be substantially different at times, as well as delayed. Eg, it will frequently say he's low, but he feels fine and his finger...

Background Info: I'm not type I, but had an extreme adverse reaction to metformin, lactic acidosis. 1.8mg daily Victoza injection worked well for about a year, then levels started rising with no changes in my diet. Gliclazide was added at 30mg then 60mg per day, but had a very sporadic effect...

Interesting, when I went in to look at my settings, it was checked to "show day and month of birth" and "show year of birth." Definitely good if even showing it in profiles is disabled, but better to disable it by default in new profiles as well in case visibility in profiles changes at some...

That's good to hear. However, you might want to default to hiding birthday data of new accounts, instead of showing it publicly as a default, especially since it is mandatory to enter when registering.