Nothing seems to work

The correct diet can be a godsend-spend some time reading the forum. Lots of people on the forum have reduced their carbs and controlled weight and diabetes, some have been able to reduce medication-some require no medication-T2 only. All the answers are on the forum.

FB

It is always possible that your body reacts to insulin, but you don't make any mention of diet. If you are not already controlling your carb then you must do this as a normal diet with diabetes and insulin may well cause weight gain. Go for something like 150gm/day max and adjust the insulin units to have a morning fasting level of around 6 mmol but have enough of course to avoid hypos. You must see the GP if you have a reaction to the insulin or need further guidance. I'm guessing you may be overweight and insulin resistant in which case you can get into a vicious circle with insulin. Carb reduction will break that circle but give it time to work.

An all too common problem with drugs and glucose level control. I recently was becoming very disappointed with my efforts to reduce my blood glucose level with diet and exercise. Fortunately for me I am not on medication.
I have just found a good book and diet plan based on low glycaemic loading AND IT WORKS.
Google DIABETES DEFEATED AGORA HEALTH LTD and find the facts for yourself. I am coming to the end of my second week on the diet and my blood tests at 5.7 mml now and I've lost about 3lbs!! Brilliant.
Good luck with it and hope it can work for you.
Les

£26.95 to find the facts for yourself, i think i will stick to the free method of trying to lower my Levels thanks

Stillo

Nothing better than accepting "moderation for life' - with a few big treats occasionally... Far better than wasting money on special diets thT cost money.

Once you have diabetes. It is coming to terms with the fact that this is a lifestyle change and NOT a diet!!!

Hi, Sorry to read of your problems but I do believe I can help. I've been diagnosed T2 for 15 years now and have been through the stage that you have described.
The measures that I have taken to reduce sugar levels ( apart from Metformin and Lantus -which by themselves were largely ineffective ) were as follows:
a) Absolutely NO chocolate or any comfort food containing sugar eg. biscuits,cake.
b) Absolutely NO potatoes.
c) Plenty of GREEN vegetables.
d) Moderate exercise to begin with eg. housework,walking - here it helps if you have a dog! After noticing a reduction in
sugar levels I was able to increase the amount of excercise but here I found it IMPORTANT to monitor MY sugar level closely in order to check that it dIdn't go too low ( for me it's below 4 ). I did not reach this sort of sugar level UNTIL I had been sticking to the above regime for some weeks.
e) I made sure that daily meals were taken at regular times and IMPORTANTLY I always checked my sugar level IMMEDIATELY BEFORE each meal.

To begin with I did find the above regime a chore but it was surprising just how quickly I became used to it - the health benefit I gained was enormous.
if you do decide to follow the above regime you may find that the keeping of sugar level records using available software may be of help.