Amazing good things have been happening daily as I've had the good fortune to be accepted for a clinical trial of capsule
based, nanotech directed insulin. 12 caps a day, along with mandatory METFORMIN (I can only handle 500mg daily) cut up in small sections. The Glypizide, had to be allowed to leach out of my system for 2 months, before starting the test program. I have been on the medication for about 40 days. In the very beginning, I was shocked by the stratospheric numbers I was getting after eating my normal diet. In one case I went into the mid 400s after macaronic & cheese, washed down with a lot of sugared Cola! I'm testing with minimal invasive meter/lance,kit sometimes 4, and now three times daily. During this 40 day interval, I have cleaned up my bad eating habits. Instead of mac and cheese goo, lots of eggs, sour dough white bread with peanut butter, moderate beer and too much soda, I'm now living on two
small meals. generic Cheerios, with minute amount of fruit, a little low fat cottage cheese...with coffee... for late breakfast, then after fasting on water for 10 hours, I eatmy larger meal, that is a salad, with extra-virgin olive oil,and lots of very green leafy ingrediants, and a small serving of cooked veggies with a tiny serving of chicken breast. No
bread, a little red wine in seltzer water, or distilled water with fresh lime, and a tiny dusting of Splenda. During the day, I drink only distilled water. My fasting blood is down to 89 to 100. My highest readings, two hours after a meal are 104 to 114. I have lost, so far, 28 pounds in 40 days. My foot nueropathy is greatly reduced, ankle swelling gone. My fingers
are free of any numbness now. The "snow blindness" effect I was experiencing in my right eye, is controlled by sunglasses, and mostly gone without the glasses! I can now walk twice as fast and ten times a far each day. I can feel pebbles under my shoes. I don't need the special shoe, to enclose my swollen left foot. I was urinating every 40 minutes..or else, with a 2 minute warning! Now I can go 3 to 5 hours during the day.
No more maple sugar odor in my urine! My A1C was 7.1 prior to the test program, I hope it will be much better when they test me next week, but I don't see the results, unless my regular internist sets up a test. I read that internal viseral fat around the portal vein entering the liver, is the core seat oftype 2 diabetes. I'm walking two miles a day fast, to burn thatinternal mess away, as diet doesn't necessarily reach it !
I'm only going to on this test, a few months more, then I'll have to go back to Metformin and Glipizide, or maybe I'll have to start injecting until the drug is approved. I feel so much better, that I'm hoping to control the whole problem with a 40 lb. permanent weight reduction, and lots of walking. I also have Atrial fibrilation, and a partial blockage of just one of my coronary arteries. They want to stent it, but I'm hoping the new eating habits, and angioplasty, will clear it. I amtaking L-Argenine, Niacin, and Simvatstatin, along with Warfrin, and Blood presure drugs. And I no longer eat salty food, ice-cream, candy or any of the obvious culprits... and will never do so again! I'm male, 68, 6'2", and now weigh just over 200 pounds..I'd be delighted to hear from my fellow diabetes sufferers, and I'd say that this oral insulin is looking very good to me so far!
