Sounds like the only person that can answer this for you is your
doctor.  What did he say when he prescribed it?  

Best,
Kurt

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It could be that your doctor suspects a misclassification of your diabetes.

Jenny posted in a thread titled "MODY not Type 1 was Re: 'Miracle'
Unfolds for Diabetic Girl" addresses a situation where a person with
MODY was misdiagnosed as type 1 - http://tinyurl.com/zhta5.

A scholar.google.com search for the terms A.T.+Hattersley+MODY+HNF4 -
http://tinyurl.com/g298c.

Frank

As the other poster said...  Only your Dr. could answer this.  Either you're
not really a type 1, your Dr. is mistaken, or there's some other reason.

Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are two different metabolic disorders
(sharing a symptom of elevated blood sugar). If you've been T1 for
40-years, you're hitting the age at which insulin resistance starts to
be a problem for non-T1s. A little googling on the mechanism by which
Glipizide works suggests that, even though it's a sulfonylurea, it may
act by reducing insulin resistance.

This is just a WAG (and all I read was a few abstracts). You might want
to quiz your doctor before you take a new med, though, just to make sure
you're not dealing with a new doctor who, instead of reading your file,
sees a slightly pudgy middle-aged diabetic and ASSUMES type 2!

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    If you're a Type 1,  then you are injecting insulin several times a day
and have done so for "almost 40 years now".     If you are not using an
insulin pump,  those shots include two types of insulin,   a fast insulin
for meals and a slow insulin for your basal metabolism  (basal/bolus
regime).   If you miss a single shot,   your sugars skyrocket.

If all of the above are not true,  then I doubt that you are Type 1.

When you were younger,  you injected about 0.5 units/(day-kg body weight).
Now that you are older,  you are injecting somewhere between 0.5 (non-obese,
physically active)  and 0.7 units/(day-kg body weight).    (putting on some
weight,  doing more sitting)

If the above are not true,  more doubts arise though there's a lot of YMMV
in the daily dose levels.

Umm. . .my boring metformin rant follows:

My reading of the medical sites suggests that the commonly prescribed blood
sugar control med metformin  (Glucophage,  Glucophage XL) has strong
anti-heart attack effects in most diabetics and probably has weak to medium
anti-heart attack effects for the remainder.   If your doc wants to use
pills at this stage,  metformin should be the leading candidate.

Regards
 Old Al