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Hi @Cherokee and welcome to the forum.

If the G.P. is concerned about your cardiac and kidney issues then that does limit the medication that is available to you. I expect that is why you had to stop using Metformin?
What are your reservations about using insulin? There are Type2s here who use insulin and I hope they will post their experiences.

Hello. I hope you find out more from the forum. I've posted to bring your post to the top again.

Morning Cherakee I am stage 3 Kidney desease and have a pacemaker I was taken off.metformin for a while but I am obese so my doctor put me back on it.At the moment things are settled.

Cherokee said:

Been T2 for 14 years and reasonably well controlled. Came off Metformin last year and put on to sitagliptin. Levels now around 13/14 . GP says nothing else left to try due to my cardiac and kidney issues. He says insulin is all that's left, is this true?

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http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/reversal.htm

The page of Professor Roy Taylor at newcastle university.

He belives that everybody has this personal fat threshold, and if you lose enough weight compared to your personal fat threshold, you can reverse your diabetes.

Read the study

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/events/public-lectures/item.php?roy-taylor-diabetes

http://www.fend-lectures.org/index.php?menu=view&id=94

Above are two lecture by him, explaining his theory and showing pictures and stories of people being sucessful having done it.

Michael Mosley is just out with a book, based on Roy Taylors research, he has also written the foreword for the book.
Here is a link to the 8 week blood sugar diet.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-8-Week-Blood-Sugar-Diet/dp/1780722400

Here is the thread of somebody doing the diet, and he has updated his sugars for each day. Look at the numbers, he got undiabetic numbers from day 6 on the diet!

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/hello-uk-newcastle-diet-from-texas-progress-thread.90455/