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Hi and welcome. Are you T2? What medication are you on?

Welcome to the forum @Nigel1956
Why do you want to use insulin? Are you struggling to manage your diabetes?
If you want to tell us a bit more about yourself, the wonderful forum members maybe able to assist and, maybe, provide alternative suggestions.

@Nigel1956 we need a bit more informatin in order to help you.

Nigel1956 said:

Yes. I'm struggling to manage my diabetes.so wish to call my doctor and ask for insulin

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If you are not deficient in insulin it wouldn't help very much to start to inject more.
If you are a type two it might be that you are simply eating more carbohydrate than you can cope with even with the medication.
Have you been told that you are not making insulin?

Nigel1956 said:

Hello all diabetics.im taking 3 types of medicine for diabetes. Question I would like to ask is can I ask my doctor to put me on insulin ?

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Hi Nigel I’m a t2 also and am taking 4 types of meds and my sugar readings are bad at all times for today after fasting since 7pm yesterday and eating very low carbs my reading was 9.1 mmol what are your readings?

Welcome to the forum @Sammy99
If you give us a little more information about your medication and what your diet usually looks like we might be able to come up with some useful suggestions

What are you eating?

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Welcome to the forum @Sammy99
If you give us a little more information about your medication and what your diet usually looks like we might be able to come up with some useful suggestions

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Thanks I posted a new thread with as much info as I could think of as I didn’t want to hijack this persons thread

Hello and welcome to the forum

As people have said it would be helpful to have more information. There are a number of types of diabetes and also a number of ways people approach it.

For example- I am a type 2 diabetic. I am in my 50s and overweight. Those factors pretty much indicate type 2. As a type 2 my body produces insulin but I have become insulin resistant which means my body isn't using the insulin as well as it should. The approach I took was to go very low carb. I took this action as I want to avoid becoming more insulin resistant and aiming to become less resistant. By going low carb I have reduced the insulin needed. That is the approach I took. There are other approaches that people take.

I was able to take my approach as I wasn't on any medication so there was no risk to me going low carb- that's why people are interested in whether you are on any medication. They need to know so that they don't suggest anything that could be harmful.

I am assuming you are a type 2 if you are not already on insulin but I can't make that assumption before making suggestions.

Secondly people want to look at what you have already tried. I have gone very low carb and if that stops being sufficient I may need to go on insulin. People are interested in what you are trying and what challenges you face.

The forum has a lot of people willing to help and give advice and many of them suffer with other medical conditions and so may be able to suggest things you haven't thought of.

Anyway- welcome to the forum and I hope that we can help you deal with your condition in a way that is helpful to you.