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Hello
I am using the app on my iPad so please forgive me if this is all in the wrong place. The navigation doesn't seem intuitive but I should get there.
I'm not new to diabetes or Type II, having been diagnosed since 2006. I do have to admit to not taking care of myself in ways that I should.
(In 2012 I reduced my meds from 4 Metformin and one gliclazide to 1 Metformin daily by losing 40lbs - which I put back on again).
For the last month I have been injecting insulin each morning and have kind of levelled out between 16 and 18 units once a day.
I have been seeing what seems to work for me and what doesn't (my experience so far has been more about what doesn't work!). I spoke with my DN this morning because we are finding a BG meter that is right for me and she reminded me about our initial conversation, when she decided I needed to have insulin, when she told me that "my pancreas may need a bit of a rest".
Now, this has confused things for me slightly – okay a lot – because I have been reading about fasting, intermittent fasting and using diet.doctor.com and reading some of what Dr Jason Fung writes about.
If my pancreas is deficient then is the diabetes reversal, fasting and low-carb out of reach for me? Is current teaching and research saying that I am unlikely to succeed?
(It seems to me that medical professionals are not permitted to step outside of or promote ideas that are outside of NHS guidelines - this doesn't make a great deal of sense because for most of my life I've been told to eat carbs and not fats – and we are still, mostly, at the mercy of the sneaky supermarkets and food producers who seem to go to great lengths to conceal the carbohydrate content of their foods - which is making me really, really cross right now!)
Sorry that this post is so rambling waffly but in essence my question is about my pancreas and am I beyond redemption and can I still pursue the fasting, diabetes reversal goal?
Many thanks indeed for reading
Silver x
I am using the app on my iPad so please forgive me if this is all in the wrong place. The navigation doesn't seem intuitive but I should get there.
I'm not new to diabetes or Type II, having been diagnosed since 2006. I do have to admit to not taking care of myself in ways that I should.
(In 2012 I reduced my meds from 4 Metformin and one gliclazide to 1 Metformin daily by losing 40lbs - which I put back on again).
For the last month I have been injecting insulin each morning and have kind of levelled out between 16 and 18 units once a day.
I have been seeing what seems to work for me and what doesn't (my experience so far has been more about what doesn't work!). I spoke with my DN this morning because we are finding a BG meter that is right for me and she reminded me about our initial conversation, when she decided I needed to have insulin, when she told me that "my pancreas may need a bit of a rest".
Now, this has confused things for me slightly – okay a lot – because I have been reading about fasting, intermittent fasting and using diet.doctor.com and reading some of what Dr Jason Fung writes about.
If my pancreas is deficient then is the diabetes reversal, fasting and low-carb out of reach for me? Is current teaching and research saying that I am unlikely to succeed?
(It seems to me that medical professionals are not permitted to step outside of or promote ideas that are outside of NHS guidelines - this doesn't make a great deal of sense because for most of my life I've been told to eat carbs and not fats – and we are still, mostly, at the mercy of the sneaky supermarkets and food producers who seem to go to great lengths to conceal the carbohydrate content of their foods - which is making me really, really cross right now!)
Sorry that this post is so rambling waffly but in essence my question is about my pancreas and am I beyond redemption and can I still pursue the fasting, diabetes reversal goal?
Many thanks indeed for reading
Silver x