What Sorcery is This?

Okay, I am not sure what is going on here, but whatever it is, I LOVE it....


Let me preface this by saying, probably AGAIN, I am diabetic...insulin dependent. I take roughly 4-6 shots/day of both long-acting and fast-acting insulin. I am also on Xigduo, which is a medication that helps with insulin resistance. Yes, Virginia, you can be insulin dependant and STILL be insulin resistant. That is a tough one to manage.

Anyway, I have been on insulin about 2 years now, roughly 30 units at night for the basal dose, and anywhere from 10-25 units per meal for the bolus, depending on what I eat.

So yeah, I can be a bad girl. The less insulin you use the better this is a great indication that you are eating right. So, using 25 units at a meal is really not a good, healthy meal for a diabetic. But, you only live once, yes?

So. since coming to terms with my memory issues, I have been hell-bent on finding ways of eating, supplements and vitamins that will help me get back to at least a semi-healthy brain. I have added the following:

Krill oil
Curcumin w/peperine (Basically turmeric, cuz turmeric is the new wonder supplement)
a probiotic
vit B-Complex

I also take a yeast control supplement because the Xigduo works by forcing your kidneys to excrete excess sugar through urination, so with all that sugar, the bacteria in the nether-regions goes wild.

Well, knock me over with a feather... the last 3 mornings my fasting numbers have been 85-88. Numbers through the day have rarely gone over 110!

This coming from a girl who usually wakes up with a 140-180 reading and after eating it can go as high as 500. Ugh. Not good.

I have also not taken my fast-acting insulin in over a day, even when eating since my numbers are not exploding. True my appetite has pretty much taken a hike and I am eating very little. What I do eat is very VERY low carb which is another good thing for diabetics, and as it happens it is good for brain health as well.

Sooooooo. What the heck is going on??

I was originally diagnosed as a T-2 diabetic, then after insulin started, I was reclassed as a T-1.5, which is essentially a T-2 who has become insulin dependent.

I had a doctor once, incidentally the endo who put me on insulin, tell me that maybe if we give your pancreas a break, after a while it will kick back in and you won't need to inject insulin anymore. I sort of dismissed this comment thinking that she likely tells that to all her T-2s who she has to put on insulin to sort of soften the blow. Having to start injecting insulin is like the Gates of Hell to a T-2. We want to avoid it at just about all cost. Personally, I thinking insulin gets a bad rap, but regardless..

So now it seems that something in addition to the medications is helping to keep my numbers in a more stable and safe zone.

I am afraid that this might be like a honeymoon type of thing that diabetics hear about. Usually, it happens after you have drastically changed your diet to a low or no carb. There is a period of time when the body sort of has a party and lets you off the hook for being so good to it and it allows you to go without your insulin. But that usually ends after a few days or weeks.

Could this be some sort of honeymoon period? Damn, I sure hope not.