Insulin resistent diabetes

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Good luck!

I'm sorry to hear about your sister. If you go to mayoclinic.org and search, there are numerous articles on diabetes. I hope you find them helpful.

My daughter had very high blood glucose readings. She was diagnosed with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. She has the antibodies for type 1 but is highly insulin resistant, is overweight and did not respond well to the usual medications for insulin resistance, like Metformin and Avandia.

We tried multiple insulin formulations and medications. She would have extreme highs and lows. Very scary and frustrating.

Last summer, she was hospitalized for a septic infection. During that time, a nurse practitioner put her on Novolog 100 units/mL in her insulin pump. Her last A1C was 6.1 and she has very good control of her blood glucose now. She loves the pump. Has your sister considered trying one?

Walk, walk, walk and when you're done then walk some more. Even walking just 15 minutes after each and every meal can really help reverse insulin resistance. Also try going off any other medications you are on, just to check to see if they are making the problem worse. Work with your doctor to do this, phasing out your medications one at a time. I did this and found that a pantaprozele a PPI was causing me to be extremely insulin resistant.

If a 60 yr old person was diagnosed with T2DM and used insulin for less than 6 months while regularly exercising, losing weight, and changing to plant based diet now finds out he no longer needs insulin to control glucose ( insulin was preferred to avoid all oral pills or non insulin injectables) and now A1C is less than 6, but still has mild glucose intolerance with ppbs 160-180, would you consider that person to have been cured of T2DM?
Is it ever possible to CURE T2 DM?

@helmuthfranz I’m a 66yr old with a looooong history of diabetes (type 1, pancreas transplant, now type 2). I’m also a Christian Believer. I don’t think ANYTHING can be completely cured this side of eternity in this fallen world. But we can learn about our ailments, make good lifestyle choices, make use of treatments & medications etc to take the best care of ourselves that we can. It sounds like you are doing a good job of this.

Cheryl, thanks for sharing Your wholesome realistic Christian perspective. So refreshing!