Long story but I have had type 2 diabetes for years. I took meds with bad side affects till I gave up on taking the drugs for over a year. About 2 years ago I switched doctors and this Dr actually listened to me. I expected to come from the 1st visit with a bunch of prescriptions. He understood the side affect problem and would only prescribe 1 drug at a time. He mentioned me doing daily shots and I didn’t want to do that so we started with pills. Tried several pill versions but side affects every time. Finally agreed to try the once a day shot Basaglar and well made progress and blood sugar was going down. After a few months still needed to go lower so started Trulicity shot once a week. Numbers dropped to where they should be than a couple months later the car accident and TBI hospitization. The hospital did not do what had been working and was finger pricking me every 1-2 hours and drastic shots spiking my sugar up and down. 3 weeks later when I checked out they had me on 13 different drugs but luckily I had a appointment with my listening Dr the next day. He looked at all the prescriptions and dropped down to 4 meds. He even said you do not have high blood pressure why why do they have you on a high blood pressure med? It’s been over a year and last visit he said my blood sugar numbers were a little low and to start cutting back.
Now things get interesting.
My wife had a DR suggest she watch a documentary called Magic Pill (think it was on Netflix) about eating Keto. We are getting close to 2 months eating 100% keto. Zero sugar, corn starch, pasta, bread, grains, potatoes so extremely low carbs and under 30 carbs in a while day not Eating “normal” Hitting 30-50 carbs in 1 meal. Keto is known to cause diabetics to STOP needing to take meds!
Since we started keto I have been doing lots of bloood sugar tests and until now I had never had a sugar test under 80 before so keto is working. When you stop eating what turns to sugar in your body the numbers drop.
I started dropping bosaglar dosage from 35 in 5 increments and am now am down to 15 once a day so 2 weeks ago I cut taking 2 metformin a day to taking 1/2 a pill 2 times a day and 5 days ago stopped taking metformin completely. Blood sugar numbers are still dropping! Next week I am going to stop taking the once a week injection of trulicity. My fall safe routine is to keep taking daily shots of basaglar as needed.
My wife is lowering her meds too!