Diabetes: Are you at your normal weight and quite active?

>Are you at your normal weight and quite active?<

Not nearly as active as I've been in the past (I WISH I could be; I'm the sort who can only get into workout mindset in a gym, and I abandoned my gym membership a year ago after needing to seriously cut corners; but when I worked out, I worked out in an intense way), but I've never been more overweight than 5 or 10 pounds. I wasn't overweight at diagnosis, and I'm not overweight now. I've been normal weight most of my life. When I'm *not*, it's due to my own choices and I know exactly where I went wrong, and I get the weight back off. So likely no problem with insulin resistance, even from the start, but I'm most definitely not a T1. I DO use more insulin than my T1 friend, so I'm not using the absolute bare amounts necessary for most of the world, but I don't use a great deal either.

>You and I are both type 2s, but I'll wager that if you sat us down side by side we'd both look very different and have extremely different ways of managing our supposedly "identical" condition.<

I'd wager the same thing based on what you've shared here about your own struggles, and your own insulin requirements. Type 2 is very complex; I would bet that there are many different underlying causes that on their own or in some combination cause the onset of the condition. Which I think is why finding a "cure" remains so very difficult. There's no standard set of symptoms and underlying dysfunctions; it could be many, many things. How do you identify them so that you're able to treat them and insure that "this is going to fix it"? You can't.