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That is not an argument. That's just you asserting that your doctor is wrong because she could be wrong.

I want nothing but the best for you. Other than advising you to monitor, I am not going to make any comments about what I think you ought to do. Whatever you chose to do, I hope it works.But according to the story you have told here, you never did trust or follow the established medical wisdom. The entire insulin sucking experience you described was your own dumb ass idea. Also, according to your own story, you did not seek out the advice of an endocrinologist; you instead got a doctor to go along with your own ideas.Since I don't know the dates on your story, I cannot tell you what the conventional wisdom was at the time you embarked on your plan, but I can tell you that folks today that are in the early/pre type 2 stage are not put on insulin initially. They are given some combination of dietary advice and Metformin to be accompanied with a monitoring scheme. Insulin is prescribed when that does not work or when you show that you cannot or will not keep your blood sugar under control. By your own admission, your A1C measurements were atrocious for most of that period. What do you think a doctor should have told you given that?I have no idea what gets prescribed for folks who have developed insulin resistance, but if you have gotten to that point, you did it to yourself. I don't see where conventional medical wisdom is implicated in what you did.