anyone here Diabetic

I was wondering who else is sufferring from the side affects of being Diabetic? I am a type II diabetic since 2000 and now I am on 3 kinds of insulin. I take 80 units of Lantus in the morning, I take 80 units of Humilin before bed at night and then i take way to much Novolog before each meal. Total i take over 300 units of insulin a day. but the good news is my A1C is now 6.7. the bad news is after keeping the weight off for months..... Now I am gaining.I think I started about 285 when I started insulin about 4 months ago. I stayed right around 290 pretty much until a couple weeks ago and now it feels like I am growing pounds every day. just this wek i have gone from 301 to 307 yesterday. I hit 300 last week and its really driving me nuts. A long time ago I weights over 340 pounds, I was given a new job assignement that involved me walking across the plant here (1.2 miles) 1 or more times a day. I stopped drinking pop and started to drink water (lots of water). I was drinking about 1/2 to 1 gallon a day. I thought is was from the need to get off the sugar water :pepsi: I had drinken since I was a kid. everyone kept asking if i was diabetic and i kept saying "no". I was wrong. My doctor put me on atkins and I was able to go from 340+ to the 220 pound range in about 3 years. I had not felt that good in so long. Then I got laid off and gained about 60 pounds back. I kept my self right arround the 280 range for a few years and now that I am creeping up at a faster pace than I walk at..... I need to do a little battle for control of my body again. so on to my questsions: who else has the diabetic thing going on? are you able to control it with diet and meds or have you moved on to insulin? Anyone using a combination of meds and Insulin like I do? Anyone taking huge amounts of insulin like me? if so are you having a hard time controlling the weight like I am currently experiencing? whats worked for you? what does not work? I know lots of questions - But I am a engineering type and i have been told I over analyze things sometimes. :toomuchinfo: so anyway - who else is here?

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