Type 2 Diabetes:If You Need Insulin

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Type 2 Diabetes

  1. Start Here
  2. Risks, Symptoms, and Tests
  3. After Your Diagnosis
  4. Doctors and Other Health-Care Support
  5. Monitoring Your Blood Sugar
  6. Eating Healthy
  7. Weight Loss and Exercise
  8. Living With Diabetes
  9. Non-Insulin Drugs
  10. If You Need Insulin
  11. Complications of Diabetes

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There's a Potential You Can Come Off Insulin

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If patients make lifestyle changes, it may be possible to stop insulin (1:10)
William Bornstein, MD, explains that people with type 2 diabetes who are on insulin aren't insulin-dependent.

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Did you reduce your need for insulin by losing weight?
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If you have to use insulin to control your blood sugar, it may or may not be permanent. Losing weight and exercising more can lower your insulin resistance; this in turn can reduce or eliminate the need for insulin.