The data in this paper though should make us appreciate the amount of damage that has been done by the time diabetes is diagnosed.
A New Paradigm for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Jenny details how to do your own post-meal blood sugar test here You can pick up a One Touch Ultra Easy blood glucose monitor from EBAY, the strips that come in the box may be nearly out of date but you can also sometimes find a bargain on Ebay. You may also find
Get a OneTouch® Meter at no charge :: OneTouch ]makers offer free monitors but I don't know if they would send them to someone who hasn't yet got an official diabetes diagnosis. There are similar offer in the UK for different meters.
My view is that if caught soon enough Type 2 diabetes may be controlled through diet/exercise/lifestyle and supplements to the point that there are no symptoms and no disease progression. But I think for people with the wrong cluster of genes the idea that there is a cure that will enable them to continue to eat modern refined carbohydrates their bodies/genes have not adapted to is unreasonable and unrealistic.
I will always have had polio as a child, the damage that caused will always be with me, the premature early aging that was progressively increasing my level of disability and is called Post Polio Syndrome is driven by inflammation and that can be cured, or at least stopped in it's tracks and to some extent the recent damage rectified, though I doubt I will ever regain control of my bladder.
A similar situation exists in diabetes, the damage to the beta cells and pancreatic function is well established by the time most diabetics are diagnosed and the question is Can the progressive deterioration be stopped? and can some of the most recent damage to pancreatic function be rectified.
I think the attitude I have found on most diabetes forums that insists on accentuating the fact that diabetes is incurable and progression is inevitable is dangerously misleading and counterproductive.
There are a wealth of approaches that MAY enable the body to control glucose metabolism and it should be possible on diabetes forums to provide details of how best and cheapest ways this may be done and provide links to the science that supports these supplementary approaches.
It's sad that most diabetics wish to bury their heads in the sand and make little or no effort to investigate the potential of correcting vitamin D, magnesium, zinc deficiencies etc and actively fight anyone who does seek to provide science based information.