Damn, FReepers, I just typed out a recent experience this Type 2 had recently and then hit the wrong button and couldn't get it back, so I will try to abbreviate this time because it truly worked for me!
Nine months ago, readings were 10.1 (Hba1c) Protein in urine was 294. Doc said I was headed for dialysis in about five years.
Started taking two 150mg, morning and evening, of a vitamin I read amazing reports on, on the internet. Called Benfotiamine. It's a derivative of Thiamine. Also walked about 16 miles a week and took 1 tablet of cinnamon (500mg, from Walmart) after all three meals.
Three months later: Hba1c down to 8.1. Amazingly, protein reading down to 175!
Next three months busy with new house. No walking. Started eating all the wrong foods, especially sweets.
I did, however, increase my Benfotiamine to three 150mg capsules after morning and evening meal and upped cinnamon to three capsules a day, after each meal
Went back to doc a couple of weeks ago, expecting numbers to be way back up and a severe chewing out.
Doctor amazed again. Hba1c had gone down again--to 6.8!!
Almost normal.
Certainly not a cure, and I know everyone's situation and body responses are different, but thought I would pass it along.
P.S. Numbness if feet is around 50 to 75% gone and hair returning to my legs (big time) after losing it around three years ago, allowing for summer growth.
Numbness IN FEET.
Will look into these two items further...even tho' my family member is a Type 1...maybe one or both would help to control blood sugars?
Cinnamon is good for 50 points. Following a strict diet of meat and fat (with a little bit of fiber of course), you should be able to stay within 100 and 160 almost all the time and end up with an A1C reading of 6.2
Thank you for sharing your experience with Benfotiamine. My kid has been taking it for over a year. He's a brittle diabetic with no complications (so far). I've read that there are no studies to support the A1C drop, but his went form 12.7 to 7.0 with no major changes in BG.