don't know who to trust

winnie, I'm not sure I understand this.  Are you saying that your endo has prescribed two diabetes meds and your cardiologist has also prescribed meds for your diabetes?  Why are two different doctors doing this?  If this is true, I don't think this is good.  Do the doctors know that another doctor is treating you for diabetes?  (Also, I don't believe you should be eating anything you want just because you're on all those meds.  It's like the reason you're on the meds is so you can eat anything you want.  That doesn't make sense.)  Can you explain more of what you wrote?

I'm confused about what you are asking, too. Do different doctors prescribe different meds? Yes. Is it up to you to inform your doctors about what other doctors are prescribing? Yes.

When it comes to your diabetes, it is your endo who calls the shots. If you don't have a primary doctor, then maybe your endo should become it. He should be advised on all other doctors reports, tests, meds, etc. One of them has to have the full picture of your medical history at all times. (Sometimes this can even be your pharmacist).

Don't be afraid of insulin injections, if that's the way you have to go. Seriously, they hurt less than the finger sticks do. The needles are so short and thin nowadays that its like poking yourself with a hair. Trust me on this, I inject 5-8 times/day

Its possible that modifying your diet/lifestyle could see you avoiding or deterring insulin or extra meds. Maybe you want to try the "nothing white but cottage cheese and cauliflower" diet (no potatoes, rice, breads, pasta, etc.) for a while and see if watching your carbs and starches is enough to keep your BGLs normal.

Your A1C and average BGLs sound pretty good but, are they at this level with eating anything you want and being on meds?

I certainly didn't want to take shots! I was happy taking all my oral meds but, the problem for me is that they weren't working.

I was around 35 when first diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and put on oral meds. Turned out that I am actually a Type 1 (just took a couple of years for my beta cells to die off completely) and started on insulin the very day I dragged my sorry self to my Endo after losing 10 lbs in 3 days.

I was without question a Type 1 and started my new life by being handed a bunch of needles and insulin and told to give myself my first shot that night (no more meds). Talk about scared! I think it took me about 45 minutes to do the first one (I'd never seen it done and only had my "how to inject" guidebook as my companion). By the of the first week it was already routine.

It does get easier to inject. What's a whole lot harder is modifying lifestyle (diet, exercise). For a lot of Type 2 diabetics, this is enough to avoid/postpone/reduce meds.

Cheers,
Kris

winnie, the problem I see is not that you don't want to take shots.  The problem is you have two different doctors prescribing diabetes medication to you.  Frankly, I don't understand why the cardiologist is prescribing for you if you already have an endocrinologist.  This is not right.  It's the endo who should be the one treating you for diabetes, not the heart doctor.  As far as taking shots, talk to your endo and get this duplication of meds solved first.  That is what should make you concerned, not whether or not you have to have shots.  How old are you?

An endocrinologist treats problems of organs that produce hormones, like thyroid, pancreas, etc., so this is the specialist that a diabetic would go to.  If the family doctor (or GP, general practitioner) feels that the diabetes case is beyond his knowledge, then he'd refer the patient to the "endo".  The puzzle here is why winnie's heart doctor is prescribing diabetes medication if she's also going to an endo.  Something is not right here because doctors wouldn't do this and specialists always work with and send reports to the GP.  So, this is strange.  (There's nothing wrong with your English! )

You need to take control of your care...one doctor to treat the diabetes and if you are having heart issues, then he/she must treat the heart, these two doctors must begin to talk with each other. Having diabetes is nothing to play with, and when you develop diabetes, you are liable to end up with a team of doctors. When one wants to add meds you need to ask what is it for? who decides this new med, have you discussed with other doctor?

And the fact you can eat whatever you want because you are on all this medication for diabetes is also not good.