I am going to honestly admit I did try it.   I was laid up from a car accident and without exercising or merely doing my daily work around the house I gained 11 lbs.   I hated it.  I am chubby enough as it is and of course gaining weight does not help control the bg.  So I cut back and felt okay until the third day and I was terribly sick with nausea etc.  I will never try that again.  It was awful and what I had to do was to eat 300 less calories a day.  But I still have the 10-11 lbs and finally now I can exercise some it is coming back off slowly though.

 

It is tempting because Humalog will put the weight on but it is because all the calories are being utilized now and doc said I had to eat a bit less as my body needed less and was utilizing it better.

 

Seems like we gain if we have strict control and lose if we don't and hard to find the right number of calories that we actually need.

 

Don't do it.

hello

 

i am over weight and my doc gave me metformin to take along side my insulin to help with the weight loss. it does work and helps my control too.

 

what ever you do, do not stop the insulin. i had DKA a few yrs back, i have since had max laser in both eyes, have kidney problems and neuropathy.

 

the DKA was induced by very bad care i received in hospital a few yrs ago, the stupid doc thought a diabetic needed a glucose drip not insulin following surgery!

 

ask ur doc about metformin.

 

take care

 

kate

Metformin is glucophage. My endocrinologist said that it was the glucophage that caused my pancreas to burn out turning me from a type two diabetic to a type one!

You might want to talk to your doctor about this.

 

 

You can not go from a type 2 to a type 1 unless you were misdiagnosed. You may be a LADA or 1.5 but only certain blood tests will tell you this.

The other option your type 2 has progressed and you need insulin.

 

Best wishes

SarahQ

No, glucophage/metformin has absolutely nothing to do with the pancreas. It works on the liver, keeping it from dumping glucose into the system. It will not cause the pancreas to burn out.

 

Some doctors are so stupid, but not their fault entirely. They should be required to update just like teachers do. They just do not have time to read the latest developments.

 

I too am on Lantus and Metformin! As long as I take the meds as Rx'd I am in tight control, but must eat to match the amount of Lantus the doctor said to inject! Thus gaining weight!! I am approaching the Blimp Stage again! Cannot exercise enough to keep the weight off. Start going hypo mid afternoon - 40 (2) - and that isn't fun either!

 

Try to change base insulins to the Levemire! or change the amount needed to very minimum.

 

No, type 2 is glucose impaired and type 1 is no activity from pancreas at all. Two very different diseases even if they carry the same name. And one doesn't change from type 1 to type 2, ever! There is a type inbetween that is a combo of the others, and is treated more like type 1.

Sorry, but that isn't true. I'm a living example.  I was diagnosed as a borderline diabetic when I was 20. Then about 10 years ago I had to start taking the pills to help with sugar levels. When they no longer did the trick, I sought help from an endrocrinologist. He ran some tests and said I was a type one. I could/didn't believe it and he showed me the test results. It was then that he explained that my pancreas no longer was working and that I had developed antibodies against the pancreas which made me now a type 1.

 

Type 1 diabetics are diagnosed from childhood...as I understand it.

 

Teacherlady55

 

Now, back to the original subject...

Yeah, go ahead and stop taking insulin if loosing weight is more important to you than your eyesight or your feet and legs or your liver or just about any other organ in your body that is being slowly destroyed by high BG levels. Is having a heart attack more appealing than a few extra pounds? Oh, and of course there is that pesky little problem of having a stroke possibly and loosing the use of your arm or one side of your body and not ot mention the control of one side of your face... yeah, that's atractive... WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?????? Weigh the risk and if you think it is worth it go right ahead but don't say you weren't warned. By the way... you won't necessarily know it is happening to you until it is too late!

Thinking that only children get type 1 almost killed me.  I was 28 years old, they insisted I had to have type 2 even though I was down to 88 pounds.  My neighbor's brother developed type 1 at age 52.  And no, you cannot go from type 2 to type 1.

Type 1 can be diagnosed at any age.  Of course the younger it is diagnosed the more complications and these complications come sooner.  The little ones are the saddest for me to see.

 

Insulin especially Humalog will put weight on but honestly I think the weight comes because when the bg is high a lot of the calories are sent out in the urine.  The hard part is adjusting our intake to a lower calorie amount when we get strict control.  We are not use to eating less and now we are using the food calories to our cells where before we were not.  So is it the insulin or is it our diet that is at fault in weight gain.  Insulin does put on water weight gain.

 

At times I have to lower in insulin intake for awhile in order to get my body to readjust again.  When I then go back to the amount of insulin I need it works better.  Many type 1 diabetes know this and do readjust for 3-4 days.  If not the units needed would steadily rise.  This is of course with type one diabetics on insulin who have had it for many many years.  Not for those new to management.

 

Katy

 

I stopped taking my NPH back in the day because a buddy of mine said it would help me lose weight.  I'm not super big, but a few pounds, now that was the ticket.  A ticket right into the ICU for severe Ketoacidosis.  WOuldn't recommend it!