Dear Skinto,
Love your nickname, don't understand your avatar. Love caviar, all kinds, even fresh, and yet what does sausage have to do with caviar? Are you putting caviar in a sausage or are you making the caviar of sausages?
Anyway, I've gotta believe that a lot of what happens to us in blood sugars spiking land is genetic and that diet and other environmental factors are only a piece of the puzzle because I, unlike a lot of folks, actually had quite a number of fasting glucose tests over the years, because my maternal uncle had died blind of complications of diabetes, so I was aiming to see if I followed suit since I had a lot of other ancestral gifts along with getting nuked and other life happenings. I made it a long while and then, like you, whammo, I was Type 2 like you. There are a lot of variations on the themes of diabetes and some of them are variations on type two or 1 1/2 or 3 or whatever. Sometimes other co-morbidities complicate and sometimes some other change. It's a puzzle withoiut only one fix, I think, so it is nice we have this forum to talk about what we are going through on an ongoing basis while we attempt to do our best, given whatever new research.