Jan, you have to realise that ALL drugs are toxic to the body and will add toxic load. Sometimes they are a necessary evil but the less of them we can manage with the better. Toxins can contribute to weight gain too, because the liver hives toxins off into the fat cells to be dealt with 'at a later date' - which of course never comes because we are constantly adding to the toxin store every day.
I had a run in with my Hospital based Diabetic Specialist. He put me on to Byetta which mucked up my digestion big-time (some seem to cope ok with it). I did lose weight on it but the sacrifice wasn't worth it because I was in so much pain.
As they could find nothing apparently wrong with me (not that they looked very hard!), it was down to my own efforts that I found a link to gluten-intolerance and dropped all gluten foods (and dairy as I knew I was intolerant of that anyway). Within a few hours the pain had gone and the diarrohea had stopped.
It has taken me the last 18 months to claw my digestion back - it's still not right but heaps better than it was, but when I saw him again last October (a year after he had taken me off the Byetta) I had barely got in the door when he was pushing me to take Statins.
I told him I wouldn't take them. He asked why. I told him I thought they were rubbish. He said that I should take them because I am Diabetic. I asked him what my Cholesterol level was to which he said '3.8'. 3.8?!!!!! If it was any lower I'd be on the flippin' floor! For goodness sake.
You know that apparently Doctors get a bonus for every Statin prescription they issue??
Knowledge is power. The more you learn about it all the more you will have the strength to stand up to them. Research gives you a lot of understanding. Don't believe everything you read though - if you absorb a lot of information you are then able to draw out of it what makes the most sense. The Medical Profession nowhere near has all the answers - sometimes they can come from least expected sources. Most mainstream Medical people are dragging their heels in knowledge. They get sent at least 10,000 pieces of information a year - do you think they actually read much of it???
Opinions change from one minute to the next. Most of the time Medical 'knowledge' is purely one opinion pitted against another. It is up to you to decide which one (if indeed any of them) is right for you. We load way too much responsibility for our own health on to the shoulders of other people and wash our own hands of it all. I have learned to my cost that that is the worst thing you can do.
Try to learn and understand how YOUR body reacts to different foods - not just the blood sugars and diabetes, but also other health issues and symptoms, because our food as well as all the chemical loading we get from it and our environment is the key to many of our health problems.
EVERYBODY eats way too much carbs and processed foods. Actually we all eat way too much food - period. The more nutritious your food is, the less your body actually needs. It will only really demand food if it is not getting what it needs nutritionally, either from our food itself, or because of the damage the food has caused us. The high-carb, high-sugar Western diet forces the body into a very unnatural way of eating and it can take a little while to adjust. We were never designed to eat this way. Those cultures in this World who are still relatively healthy eat pure natural foods and do not follow the Western Diet. Those that change to the Western Diet get sick. That's proof enough for me.
Try not to eat anything processed or adulterated. Try and stick to god wholesome foods and eat Organic where you can - I know it is more expensive (which is criminal) but it has to be better for us all - and the more that demand it the more the food producers will be forced to change their practices. See if you feel better off of dairy products for a while too - it's worth experimenting. Most dairy is devoid of the life-giving enzymes that are destroyed in the pasteurisation, and homogenisation of cows milk also is an unknown damage entity (they just can't leave anything alone - can they!). You can get plenty of calcium from fruit and veg - there is as much calcium in a portion of broccoli as in a glass of milk.
I feel your pain. I have been well on the way to where you are now but fortunately I never did believe all the guff that the Diabetic 'Specialists' told me so have managed to keep my body going relatively well and by finally realising that more damage has been done to me by the Medical Profession than anything I have ever done to myself!
I'm not saying don't touch drugs, as I recognise that in certain cases they may be necessary, well, at least until a certain amount of healing has taken place (I was able to drop my blood pressure tablets within a few weeks of going gluten free), I am still taking 2 Metformin (which I would hope to be able to drop eventually) and Insulin although I have now been able to cut that down to one injection a day (12 - 14 units), but the less we need to take of these imposed toxic burdens the better.