[MelodyL]

About two weeks ago, I stopped using Splenda after my morning coffee. I only use it when I go out for breakfast and I have two cups of coffee.

Boy did I get a reaction. My sugar dropped down to 80 one morning. I couldn't believe it. I've been using Splenda for years. I was baking with it. Making sugar free mixes with it. Putting it in my beverages. I should have googled "Splenda raises my blood sugar" and BOY WOULD I HAVE LEARNED SOMETHING.

I use a product called True Lemonade with Raspberry (sweetened with Stevia) that I get from Truelemon.com.

That's the only beverage I drink. You just add it to water. I make it by the pitcher. There's no artificial anything in this drink. I think it was the artificialness of the splenda that did me in. Everything I eat is natural, nothing processed. Been doing this for about 2 years now. Lost weight, but my sugar was still high in the morning and NOTHING I DID changed this.

Eating before I went to bed, not eating before I went to bed, giving myself the Lantus before retiring (instead of when I got up), nothing changed my blood sugar in the morning. I thought it was Dawn Effect that I had read about.

When I stopped using Splenda in the afternoon and in my baking mixes, and I started eating fresh fruit (a little but it's fresh), WELL!!! you could knock me over with a feather.

My morning sugar is between 80 and 120 (this morning it was 111). Can you believe this? I still can't.

This happened EXACTLY when I stopped using any Splenda after my breakfast. No more baking with it, putting it in drinks, whatever!!

And slowly but surely, I am going down on the Lantus. Last month I was on 20 units.

As of this morning, 11 units. AND NO OTHER DIABETES MEDS.

Amazing.

Hey, I just might have a shot at getting off of insulin. I hope I an achieve this and do it by diet alone. That's my goal. Initially I had been on metformin, or glipizide, never took Januvia, but went on Lantus 5 years ago, along with metformin. Slowly I got off the oral meds, but I never saw a connection between Splenda and my blood sugar. It's splenda, it's NOT supposed to raise blood sugar.

So if any of you have tried everything and nothing works, and you are using Splenda, give it up for a few days and see what happens.

All the best,

Melody