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Because my daughter has a rare companion disease, I also know hundreds of others with UC or Crohns (both are IBDs, UC impacts the colon; Crohns the entire GI tract). Nutrition and diets are a hot topic at our annual conference (of ~200 people). What people swear keeps their IBD under control...

Not really. UC is an autoimmune disorder. Unless you have an allergy to carbs, low carb won't interupt the autoimmune response. (25 years of experience with a daughter with UC - and tons of her buddies with UC and her companion disease) " low carb," despite what anyone swears by.

Did they do a colonoscopy? That's the only way to diagnose UC. (My daughter has had it since she was 4. She's 29 now - and has been asymptomatic (aside from the active UC they can see in her annual colonoscopy) most of that time, as long as she stays on her maintenance meds, no discomfort...

At your age, mine would be 1% - but being 63 bumps it up quite a bit!

Not at the moment. After the wonderful numbers in my signature line, I was diagnosed with cancer, work exploded, and I stopped eating the way I should. My numbers were bad in November, but my risk for a cardiovascular event based on those number is still about 6.2% over the next 10 years...

I just did a bunch of research (I'm getting the same push from my doctor). The big risk for heart attacks come from sdLDL (small dense bits of cholesterol). Because these are hard to read directly, they use triglycerides as one of many stand-ins to estimate the likihood of elevated sdLDL. My...

I bet you'd be down to around 100 if you cut out the sweet potatoes. They are very carb-heavy. (Beans are too, but have more fiber. I can eat a small quantity of black beans - but almost no sweet potatoes.)

My carb intake ranges from 20 net to 60 net. (I was not going low carb to lose weight - I counted calories to lose weight. The low carb is purely for control of diabetes.) But in order to get an accurate reading on the OGTT, I spaced my meals so I consumed 100-120 net carbs for 3 days before...

My definitions: My diabetes is controlled because my bloood glucose is normal so long as I limit my carb intake. My diabetes will be in remission if my blood glucose remains normal regardless of what I eat. I'm not yet in remission, although I have moved from diabetic back to being prediabetic...

My targets are meal targets, not daily targets - and I determine them by very frequent (at the beginning) testing to see how my body reacts. I don't want my BG to go above 7.78. I test at 1 hour, 2 hours, and (if 2 hours is higher than 1 hour) at 3 hours. If it is higher than 7.78 at any of...

Don't let the hype about Metformin freak you out. Most people can take it without significant side effects - you may fall i nto that category. I can/t tell any difference between taking it and not. But don't expect it to have a significant impact on your blood glucose levels, It's not that...

My doctor started me on 500 mg Metformin, expecting to bump me up when my BG didn't come down. That was a year ago. He hasn't mentioned it again. I'm still up in the air about whether to talk to him about dropping it altogether. It may have some benefits (outside of blood glucose control) -...

I wouldn't worry about ballet as a male, or even as a female in the early years. What really tears up feet in ballet (moreso if not properly supervised) is dancing en pointe. Men don't, and most women never get there because it is years of training (and a certain finality of bone growth) - and...

The crossed fingers must have worked! Biopsy is negative - now I just have to get past the pain/swelling so the BG can drop back to normal.

I had surgery for breast cancer 7 months after diagnosis with T2 diabetes. My blood glucose was under tight control by then, and I was just barely overweight. Had my blood glucose not beein under control OR had I still been obese, I would have had far fewer treatment options because of the...

When I was diagnosed, I agreed to take a low dose of metformin, largely to appease my doctor that I was doing something pharmaceutica. (I wanted to try lifestyle changes. He was pushing statins and hypertensive medications + metformin and thyroid medication.) We compromised on thyroid (there...

Stress, itself, can directly affect blood glucose levels. After achieving very tight control (including reversing my response to carb intake to the pre-diabetic level), I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I fired my first cancer team, in large part because of the dramatic and immediate impact...

Lifestyle changes can often result - very quickly - in absolutely normal blood glucose levels. It took 3 days of low carb eating for everything but the dawn phenomonon to be within the normal non-diabetic blood glucose range. (The dawn phenomenon took weeks - and is the quickest to revert to...

Many of us count both carbs and calories. LCHF is not magic. If you eat the same number of calories as before, you will continue to weight the same amount. What LCHF does for many is to reduce the number of calories eaten because it makes many feel more satiated so they eat less - so some...

The accu-check multiclix is nearly painless for me - if it starts to get painful at all, I just advance the next lancet (but I've been on the same one for close to a month @ 4x/day). Make sure you use the sides of the fingers, not the pads. I know someone earlier said not to use the index...