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- Type of diabetes
- I reversed my Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
I really don't want to start the downward spiral of more and more drugs. I take metformin and statins and was put on another drug after a couple of months. However, being a scientist I had to research it when I had the time and once I did I took myself off it the same day and made an appointment to see my DN. She was unaware of the research paper I took to show her so I gave it to her; she didn't try to persuade me to restart taking it; in fact she said she she would bring it up at her next diabetic meeting. Hence why, despite being underweight since I cut the carbs (I was a healthy weight before then) I want to do the ND so that I can hopefully start to eat more normally without my BG going way too high with all the side effects that will give me.
Sadly my husband will not modify his diet in any way; I wish he would as his diet is appalling, I would not eat a lot of it even if I wasn't diabetic! He worked away until recently but now he is home he will only eat what he wants to and refuses to eat more healthily and drink less.
My only comment to you would be to ask you to consider how you could feel about living your life even lighter and thinner than you are now? If you have not yet reached your PFT, then how low is it (rhetorical question)? But, at least as importantly, it is my understanding that regaining weight lost is likely to lead to a rediagnosis, and all that effort would have been to no avail.
Perhaps your pancreatic/beta cell functionality are quite impaired?
Although I have stated that if it ever became necessary I would accept taking medication in order to continue my quality of like. There are definitely a couple of drugs I would really rather not take, but if I was in that corner maybe they would be the lesser of the available evils. Curiously, one of our friends overseas' daughter is a medical research scientist who did work on some popular, and successful diabetes medications. I didn't know this until quite a while after diagnosis, when her mother asked what meds I was taking, because she was hoping it wasn't what she had worked on, because of some of the longer term potentials.
But, for each of us, these are decisions based on more than scientific papers, often.