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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
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Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
Some time back (beginning of February) I was diagnosed with a growth in my bladder which turned out to be bladder cancer.
At that point I decided that LCHF/Keto was part of a strategy to stay healthy over the long term and that I would be really "unhappy" if I spent my last 6 months to a year living on handfuls of gravel and scummy rainwater.
[Well, not literally but you get the idea.]
I dived off the wagon and proceeded to explore what I had been missing.
Some was ecstasy and some was decidedly "meh" which was interesting in itself.
I had cystoscopy followed by TURBT and 6 weeks of chemotherapy (directly into the bladder through a catheter).
After the TURBT I was told that I was low grade and slow growing which I found very insulting until I was told that this was a good thing.
Anyway I have a letter saying that I am cured (for selected values of cured) and I am now on monitoring.
3 months, 3 months, 6 months, then annually for 4 years.
5 years in total.
The upside is that I may last a little longer.
The downside is that bladder cancer can reoccur.
However so far so good.
Having come to the end of my chemotherapy I now have to get back on the wagon.
I am house sitting for a couple of weeks as a break from all the stress, and aiming to slowly get back on the wagon.
Brought a Libre 2 with me and guess what?
For the first time ever I have a duff sensor but I didn't bring a spare so there will be a delay before I start monitoring.
Because I didn't bring my finger prick tester.
As a side issue I have been troubled with constipation since my TURBT.
I think it is due to my intestinal flora being wiped out by the antibiotics needed to cure the UTI following a lot of things being poked up my urethra.
[You have very little personal dignity left after bladder investigations.]
However correlation does not imply causation.
If I had these symptoms without having the TURBT I would be wondering about problems within the bowel.
So I'm scheduled for a sigmoidoscopy just to double check.
Meanwhile I am eating All Bran for roughage because that seems to help. However sugar.
And eating loads of prebiotics and probiotics to get my guts back into proper action. However bananas and prunes.
Anyway hopefully all will be sorted by the end of the month.
Take this as a lesson that Diabetes can sometimes turn out to be slightly less important and all consuming as we sometimes think.
Then again perhaps not.
At that point I decided that LCHF/Keto was part of a strategy to stay healthy over the long term and that I would be really "unhappy" if I spent my last 6 months to a year living on handfuls of gravel and scummy rainwater.
[Well, not literally but you get the idea.]
I dived off the wagon and proceeded to explore what I had been missing.
Some was ecstasy and some was decidedly "meh" which was interesting in itself.
I had cystoscopy followed by TURBT and 6 weeks of chemotherapy (directly into the bladder through a catheter).
After the TURBT I was told that I was low grade and slow growing which I found very insulting until I was told that this was a good thing.
Anyway I have a letter saying that I am cured (for selected values of cured) and I am now on monitoring.
3 months, 3 months, 6 months, then annually for 4 years.
5 years in total.
The upside is that I may last a little longer.
The downside is that bladder cancer can reoccur.
However so far so good.
Having come to the end of my chemotherapy I now have to get back on the wagon.
I am house sitting for a couple of weeks as a break from all the stress, and aiming to slowly get back on the wagon.
Brought a Libre 2 with me and guess what?
For the first time ever I have a duff sensor but I didn't bring a spare so there will be a delay before I start monitoring.
Because I didn't bring my finger prick tester.
As a side issue I have been troubled with constipation since my TURBT.
I think it is due to my intestinal flora being wiped out by the antibiotics needed to cure the UTI following a lot of things being poked up my urethra.
[You have very little personal dignity left after bladder investigations.]
However correlation does not imply causation.
If I had these symptoms without having the TURBT I would be wondering about problems within the bowel.
So I'm scheduled for a sigmoidoscopy just to double check.
Meanwhile I am eating All Bran for roughage because that seems to help. However sugar.
And eating loads of prebiotics and probiotics to get my guts back into proper action. However bananas and prunes.
Anyway hopefully all will be sorted by the end of the month.
Take this as a lesson that Diabetes can sometimes turn out to be slightly less important and all consuming as we sometimes think.
Then again perhaps not.