Sorry to hear that Sid. My wife is a type 1, but she got it as an adult, not as a child. She's had if since 1999 and she's made major efforts in her life to get it under control. She's doing very well, she takes a quarterly test to measure how well she is doing and she's been in the 6.0-6.9 range for a long time now, and anything under 7.0 is doing well.

So if you exercise and eat right, it will come down, type 2 is not typically chronic like type 1 is (type 1, your body basically stops producing any insulin at all and you are insulin-dependent).