[RJS1950]

What a bunch of morons! There are different types of type 2 and one of them is insulin resistant. My body produces insulin but the body fails to efficiently use it. Insulin will do nothing for insulin resistance. Monitoring is important because without it you don’t know if diet and exercise is working and even for those who take insulin you can’t always tell if the insulin dose is effective. Monitoring blood sugar is how I knew that diet and exercise were no longer working well and that I needed to start taking Metformin to regulate blood sugar through liver function. This is what you get when you let bureaucrats run things.

[Domandred]

You are in the same boat as my wife. She was(is) type 2 insulin resistant. She had her A1C down to 4.9 at one point two years ago. She had stopped monitoring her blood glucose because she was doing so well and her doctor (worthless doctor I might add, but that's a different story) said she didn't need to monitor anymore, just do the A1C ONCE A YEAR!?

Now it's back up to 7 on the same diet and exercise and she's kicking herself that she wasn't monitoring her glucose levels. Even once a day would have clued her in there might have been a problem.