Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for May 10, 2016

Husband and I are both Type IIs. While proper diet is important it is generally not enough to deal with Type II unless one is lucky. We are not fat, eat very low carbohydrte and and walk up to 10 miles a day. My sister is huge – we have the same parents and grandparents – if it was just a question of what one eats and weighs she would be the one with Diabetes and I would not.

Both of my grandmothers were Type II – one was what people expect – overweight and a poor eater, the other weighed under 100 pounds and ate chicken and low carb green vegetables and lived on the 5th floor of a walk up apartment building so she got lots of exercise.

I think that they when they finally figure it out they will find out 1 – Type I, Type II, MODY and gestational Diabetes are totally separate diseases with similar results. They will also find that Type 2 is genetic and it also needs something to set it off – ie. it is “caught” from someone with it. (I won’t go into why this last point, but doctors say there is no such thing as a coincidence and I have several of them of chains of unrelated people who work together becoming Type II one after the other – if it is not a coincidence, than it is being passed one to the other.

I take Diabetes medication. My husband takes 2 medications and basal insulin.

I also take medication for low thyroid. I never felt ill until I got my blood glucose and thyroid in line – now I feel sick nearly every day.