What meds are you taking for your Type 2 diabetes.

I have had Type 2 for almost 20 years. I was first put on diabeta, then some other pill thing, then glucophage, then glucvance, then avandia.
My sugar (of course I was obese at the time and that didn't help) never went below 265.

I actually (and this was about 13 years ago) had a doctor tell me "Well, maybe your sugar is not supposed to go under 265, maybe that's what your body is supposed to read". Since I was really clueless at the time, I figured, "hey, she's a doctor, she went to medical school, if she says my sugar reading might be okay at 265, well who am I to question her".

Thank God, I eventually found my former primary care doc (Dr. V. Goldbetter) who took one look at me and said "Listen to me, you are on dangerous territory here" He upped my Glucophage and gave it to me straight about my diet. Did I listen? well, yes and know.

BUT!!!! I finally did a lot better and my sugar was slowly reaching the 180 (I actually thought I was doing great at that number). One cold day, I went out to shovel snow, I felt great, came back in the house, took my sugar and it read 400. Now I don't have to tell you how that nearly gave me a heart attack. I immediately ran to my doctor who said to me "Melody, exactly what did you eat?" I said "who the hell ate anything?" I shoveled snow". He looked like a lightbulb went off in his head and he said "OH, that's it, You shoveled snow,". (PLease don't ask why shoveling snow makes your sugar go up, they've explained it me many times, I still don't get it because I exercise every day and that doesn't make my sugar go up who why should shoveling snow do it??"

Anyway, here's the moment that changed my diabetes life for good. My doctor told me "I'm getting you off all of this oral crap and putting you on Lantus". Of course I never heard of Lantus. I said "what's that" and he takes out a vial and a syringe and I thought my chest would come out of my body. I said "You want me to take injections, are you crazy?" He said This is different, this is a once a day basal insulin." He taught me how to give myself an injection and in about a week I could do it in my sleep.

So I went from 8 oral pills a day to one injection in the morning of the Lantus.
And the best news is that I started in the ACCORD program At Cornell Weill Medical Center in NYC and I get all meds and all testing strips and all everything for free.

I developed PN about a year ago (but I only have the numbness). In the tops of my toes. I would never even know I had it if my doctor didn't do the tuning fork thing and touch my toes and asked me "tell me when it stops vibratin? " and I responded "when is it going to start?"

I've lost tons of weight. They have had to lower my insulin because over the last 2 years my A1c has gone from 9.5 to 6. ANd that's a good thing.

Two days ago, they called me and said "Melody, we want you to go down from 34 of the Lantus to 30. I was amazed. I might beat this thing yet.

So my question to you is "exactly what kind of insulin are you on?" Are you on the novalog, humalog, (the ones you take before you eat?) or are you on the same kind I'm on, (The Lantus).

And how many units?

Take care,
Melody