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85. Everyone's diabetes is different

I became diabetic due to prescribed steroids. My highest numbers are my overnight (fasting) BG; my liver dumps glucose at night.

Metformin is nephrotoxic. Due to pre-existing non-diabetic kidney disease, I was never put on it. I was on an old sulfonylurea - until there was a nationwide shortage last year and it was unattainable. A substitute gave me pancreatitis so I was switched to Lantus, a long-acting insulin with no peak action.

I'm not advocating a high carbohydrate diet for anyone - I never ate that way, even when I was "normal" and after, I was appalled at the 'diabetic' all-bread meals I got in the hospital - but diabetes is a complicated, sucky disease that fucks with each individual in its own special way. I don't process white rice in a helpful way, yet can eat reasonable amounts of brown rice and all the wild rice I can afford as an example.