I would forget to take my meds before meals too - who knows 30 minutes before you're going to eat?? - so I would take my glucophage WITH or right after my meal. I don't know if that was a good idea or not, one of my sugar meds started to show bad results in my kidneys, that might have been why. but I figured better late than never. Do you have high blood pressure at all? my GP said the ingredients in one of my blood pressure meds "cured" my diabetes. I looked up lisinopril and wikipedia said it was made from snake venom. I don't know if this was it or what, sometime it's hard to get a straight answer from him, but i'm sure he feels the same way about me. it's not the dying from diabetes that is scary, it's living with the neuropathy pain that cannot be alleviated, and blindness and amputations and carp like that. do we have a social group or thread for this? because any kind of not being able to take care of yourself, isn't this a form of self-injury? your doctor called it sui, why question his judgment? do we think he's being inaccurate or dramatic? what can we do here (on PC) and now to help each other?