>
> After 10 years of dealing with  the  effects of the disease, which
> slowly got worse, I began to experience heavy
> depression, and I have never really gotten "cured" of it.  My body
> resists insulin so strongly now that I take a daily
> dose so high that, if a "normal" person took it, his brain would be
> scrambled into a deep coma.


I can identify with that.. When I had pancreatitis, I went through a
resistant phase, and was pegging the meter on blood sugar (should be 80-100,
was 450+) and at the same time, using 350 units of insulin.
Once they put me on real food, everything snapped back to normal though.



I can no longer feel
> a pinprick in my feet, and my hands are following suit. I have a open
> wound in my foot that won't heal; it is 30%
> "healed" after 14 MONTHS of intense wound care. I can barely hold a
> soldering iron, and cannot feel 0805s through
> a tweezer. I am forming cataracts in both eyes, and the retinas are
> being slowly damaged by the high BG. No matter
> how much insulin I take, my BG readings are NEVER below 300 (80 is
> normal).


Ouch.

As a result of this and more, I am chronically, constantly depressed. I
> have taken Zoloft and everything else I know of,
> and nothing works.
>
> The only thing I have been able to control is the neuropathy, which I
> control completely with 6000mg of Evening Primrose
> Oil per day (4 gel tabs). But this "cure" is not sanctioned by doctors-
> they don't believe that it works- but it does.


As long as it dosen't hose up your other meds, then go with what works.
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