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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 2017141" data-attributes="member: 196898">Not essential IMO.  I am confident I will be able to control now esp when I get home.  Recently I have been pushing the boundaries, and not frightened myself with the exception on the two occasions I ate vegan food,  My levels did drop significantly even when I was off all my meds quite naturally, and so that and the fact that exogenous insulin did nada for my bgl when I was in crisis shows I really do not need external insulin.  Since Glic was the med in question, then this acts by boosting internal insulin production, so it would not work at all if I was insulin deficient.  I am sure I have a working pancreas, and it was IR that was my problem.Edit to add:  Just to underline my post above:  Last night I had a bgl reading of 11.6 but it was taken by the nurse at bedtime, and was only 1 hour after eating supper (which included mashed potato, and a large blackberry crumble with custard) and was half an hour after a nightcap of drinking chocolate. So I am not entirely surprised at this.  However my morning fbg was 5.7.  I am only on Metformin (reduced dose) and that drop is far greater than could possibly be attributed to the Metformin.   It can only be from my own insulin.In answer to [USER=196960]@ickihun[/USER] , I actually stopped my Glic over a month ago, with a two day re-instatement before the doc stopped it again 2 weeks ago,  The half life of Glic is 6 hours, and it does not need to build up like Metformin to take effect.</blockquote>

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