Reducing insulin alongside this, under supervision

Started 22 January 2026 · 12 replies · 94 hearts · read 837 times

NorahDerry, NI · 22 January 2026

6 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Reducing insulin alongside this, under supervision

I have had this diagnosis for a long time and none of the general advice quite fits me.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

PriyaReading, UK

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

7me too 4

IkeChicago, IL

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

CassWakefield, UK

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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KaiVancouver, CA

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

JuniperMachynlleth, UK

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

SolomonManchester, UK

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

PosyChichester, UK

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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PrunellaBury St Edmunds, UK

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

SorrelMachynlleth, UK

#10

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

#11

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

RayBarnsley, UK

#12

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.