Blood Sugar Downer

The change in Wal-Mart generic insulin manufacture has brought more frequent periods of discomfort with "low" sugar levels. I use quotes on "low" as acknowledgment that this is by feel, not by blood testing numbers.
Overall the sugar has felt lower with the Novolin than it had been with the Humulin formula. Since the toe problem that landed me in the hospital in the spring, I was making a concentrated effort for an overall lowering of the blood sugar. The change in insulin seems to have made a sharper change in that direction, unfortunately at a time when I was looking to slowly raise it again so I would feel overall better health.
People, including my GP, do not understand that last statement. Diabetics do. I do not feel as good when the sugars are lower. Diabetics who are good doobies and paint by numbers also report that they feel less well when their sugars are at better numbers. I’m still waiting for that lucky day when I meet a doctor who understands that how a patient feels is somewhat more important than what test numbers statistically say about their health. At least two of the three other diabetics with whom I have most recently spoken with in general terms report that they primary care givers and/or diabetic specialists have railed against missed target numbers without regard to how the patients were actually feeling, so I am not holding my breath on meeting the more compassionate and logical doctor. Both of those acquaintances were discouraged that no effort seems enough.
I have never recovered the feelings of wellness and functionality I possessed prior to "taking care of myself better." By the full chains of events, I would not be blind nor crippled by the collapsed ankle via Charcot foot if I had not started taking care of myself better. I My numbers had risen again and things got better, but never back to where they had been, even discounting the blind thing and the cripple thing.
I did make a renewed effort on my own after this spring’s hospitalization. The Charcot foot had nearly totally impeded circulation in the foot, allowing for the sudden infection and almost instantaneous gangrene and the collapse of the bone structure that has permanently impaired my ankle. My largest steps were to eliminate as much of the big (and hidden) source of sugar in my diet as possible, and letting my sugar levels stay at critically low feeling longer than I usually would.
I don’t need an A1C test to know I have succeeded. I don’t feel as well as I did prior to the hospitalization. Fatigue is constant. When the sugar hits a low feel level, the physical symptoms hit much sooner after the temperament issues than they used to. Those temperament issues are more severe and the "calm" times between are periods of severe depression that is biochemically impacted beyond the constant "useless gimp" feelings that are situational depression that anyone would feel in my situation. My thoughts are usually slower. I tire more easily. Stamina is gone. Neuropathy burns are more frequent. The depression had reached such an abyss that I found no choice other than to resume antidepressants.
Does this sound like healthier living?
It sure don’t feel like it.