I am Type II. For about ten years I was on medication but couldn’t handle the side effects. I lost weight and cut way back on carbs. I thought I had beaten diabetes. I went from high blood sugar levels to low levels. I even passed out a few times from low blood levels.
About a month ago I moved in with my daughter, Their dietary pattern was different from mine. I still maintained my levels by eating very small potions. My blood sugar ran in the 130 to 150 range. That changed on Thanksgiving. After eating my sugar was at 220! I had not beaten it but was controlling it.
Thanx. I binged on Thanksgiving and then breads. Today is a new start.
Over time the oral medications that stimulate the pancreas to produce more and more insulin to reduce glucose or blood sugar levels becomes les and less effective, and the overworked pancreas begins to become less and less capable of producing that insulin. After a number of years the fattened pancreas can no longer produce enough insulin to reduce the blood sugar levels even with the oral medications. At that point the physicians prescribe exogenous insulin be used by the diabetic patient to reduce those blood sugar levels. Again, over time the insulin level becomes less and less effective. The symptoms associated with diabetes become worse. The spiral ends in premature death.
The high insulin levels cause the regulatory hormones to store unburned glucose as fat instead of burning fat. Some of the fat gets stored in the liver and the pancreas. When oral diabetic medications squeeze more insulin out of the pancreas and exogenous insulin is injected, the additional insulin causes even more fats into the liver and the pancreas making their conditions even more worse despite lowering the blood sugars for awhile.
Breaking the vicious cycle requires removing the glucose to lower the insulin, begin burning fat instead of storing fat, reduce the fat in the liver and pancreas back to normal levels, which restores the normal or near normal functioning of the liver and pancreas, which lowers blood sugars to normal levels, which reduces weight indefinitely so long as the diet no longer includes excessive amounts of carbohydrates and/or protein. Its a nutritional problem which requires extraordinary measures to reverse and restore normal metabolic functions.