Thanks @mickj for opening up this discussion. I wonder why doctors do not tell patients that diabetes can be reversed. I've never seen a book that is How to Reverse Diabetes. The books are about controlling it and what all you have to do. If every person who was pre-diabetic and diabetic stopped all the medicines and dieted to the right weight and exercised, then many doctors would be out of a job, and many pharmacies would not make the big bucks on medicines. I can't wait to ask my endo and see what his answer is.
It seems that people who have had a transplant of liver or pancreas are the ones who found it worked. I guess if the old organs couldn't work, then the donor organs took over and worked correctly again; thus, the reversal. This just fascinates me because I have had no fun fighting this disease and I have changed my lifestyle completely. Some people have had diabetes for decades and are still battling it. If everyone could erase diabetes from the medical books, we'd all be a lot happier.
Carol

@mickj If you were to eat a relatively high amount of carbs would your own insulin still handle as it does with a person who has never been diabetic? I try to limit my carbs but it would be great if that wasn’t necessary. My treat is often a piece of very dark chocolate and that is fairly low carb. My diabetes is minimal enough that I have been I told that I do not need to test more than a couple of times a week, after eating. It might be interesting to cheat and then test my blood sugar. I too lost a great deal of weight, and of course have a new liver. I do know that after my transplant, when I was on a higher dose of prednisone I had to use insulin for a few weeks.
JK