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Message: <blockquote data-quote="graj0" data-source="post: 961063">It's usually the husbands who resist. Other forum members have mentioned it already and as your wife is already ignoring medical advice about going on to insulin, is she ignoring their advice about eating loads of carbs? Eating loads of carbs like they advise is a very bad idea.I was at the point where my GP wanted me to start taking insulin and I wasn't against the idea but at the same time I was also trying to lose weight and fed up with eating less, exercising more and getting nowhere (partially down to a ******** up metabolism and not totally unconnected to the meds I was taking). I was advised by a nutritional therapist to avoid carbs which was totally against what my GP had been saying in the past. My new GP wasn't against (or for) the plan but warned me of falling BG readings which is exactly what happened. To the extent that I was able to throw away the Gliclazide, the Januvia and the statin and have never needed to think about insulin, in fact after I paid for a c-peptide test, and I know my pancreas actually produces normal amounts of insulin without encouragement from Gliclazide or Januvia.So, I'd say "CUT THE CARBS" if she hasn't done so already.You mention that she tried insulin 15 years ago, did they have the Insulin Epipen then? My father is type II on insulin (he eats like they tell him on the "Eatwell Plate") and so scared of needles that I can't even say the word without him going a strange colour. Even he manages to use the Epipen.Sadly, and I feel for you, you've either got to read the riot act. I remember visiting my father in hospital for six weeks because of a toe infection (and amputation). I was becoming more and more ill myself because of the traveling. M40, M25, A3M was just too much on a daily basis, I had to read the riot act, I had to say "no more visits, I can't do it". He takes his condition a little more seriously these days. All the best</blockquote>

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