Sorry to hear about your friend.I truly believe that lc is her only chance.High carbing with lots of medication is going to burn out her pancreatic cells and besides those levels are enough to give her complications. I URGE her to get a copy of Dr Bernstein's book. Right away. For me, it has been easy, but if its more complicated, you can get his glucograf charts and figure out systematically what foods do what for how long. And it would be nice if she could find a Dr who understands and believes in LC. A friend of my wife started Atkins, then discovered that she is diabetic. Amazingly, her Dr did NOT try to get her to eat more starches and s--- that the ADA recommends. He just said, go with your Atkins. So there are a few out there. Bill