Originally Posted by cyccommute

As for my wife, yes she is a Type I. I said that. But Type I's food intake is much more critical than a Type II. You still produce a little insulin which is the case in almost all Type II diabetics. My wife produces no insulin. She is much, much more sensitive to blood glucose levels. A miscalculation in the amount of insulin or the amount of carbohydrate she takes in can be deadly. If she takes too much of the former and not enough of the latter, she can be in serious trouble. I've had to attend to her twice...thankfully only twice...because she had dropped her blood sugar levels to the point of going into convulsions. The treatment? Carbohydrates. Simple ones. Quickly.