I recently had an annual HbA1c test that came back at 43 mmol/ml and a comment to 'See the nurse'. So arming myself with plenty of info gained from this site and others I have just returned from my appointment.
The nurse had a look of shock when this tall and slim 75 year old female walked in and immediately said that I didn't fit the usual patient that she sees. So when she started giving me the standard mantra about the 'Eatwell Plate' - there was even a poster on the wall illustrating it - I just said I thought it was irresponsible of the NHS dishing out that bad diet advice. I was also told to eat low GI foods, as I already eat brown bread where possible. I said even if low GI it was still carbohydrate and would have the same effect on the body in the end. All that carbohydrate had to be wrong.
At which point she realised I was not going to be convinced and said what I always suspected, that they have to dish out this advice as it's standard NHS practice: jobs on the line I suppose if they don't. I think that is truly shocking. Thank heaven for this site. I also gathered that Diabetes.uk.org is all part and parcel of the NHS too.
Strictly off the record she told me to get a copy of Michael Moseley's Blood Sugar Diet as the science in it is so interesting.
Well done YOU for raising your situation to awareness of others, but I am sure its not the first time.
This is why one should trust ones own body first and foremost, secondly, get 2nd and 3rd opinion also, as this meeting, indicates as I have always felt personally, whether the NHS, Diabetes associations which are connected to Pharmas, medic system, there is big business out there, and its in everyones best interest to keep diabetes ALIVE, rather than push and explain to people, it is not a chronic progressive disease, it can be reversed if one knows how, and I am sure, from gaining information from well reputable Doctors worldwide who are experts in this field, if the medical system worldwide starts to focus and treat the CAUSE of diabetes the Insulin Resistance, instead of the SYMPTOM, the higher sugars everyone with slightly or more higher sugars will benefit at the end of the day.
The Big question remains, what is the correct cut off, no one knows, at the end of the day. They are arbitrary set at whim and random chosen by the so called experts. One should not panic if their levels go up or down that seems to my understanding absolutely normal, and depending on this, one decides what to eat, so if the levels cannot be trusted, surely if one is
exercising more, eating low carb diet preferably Keto eating, wonderful delicious meals, exercising, and intermittent fasting as and when one feels like it, what better can one do, as these I feel are the basic elements that can help lower higher blood sugar levels, to lower and keep them consistent and stable, well, speaking from first hand experience, this is what I follow no medications and change of lifestyle only, and I am normal normal normal......
The SYSTEM, it seems and quite concerningly overall, can give confusion and only complicate a persons high sugar situation or insulin resistance situation simply due to the system following the system and not treating Diabetes in the correct way, treat the CAUSE and NOT the symptom, perhaps millions will have reversed diabetes, but then the problem with that, is big business drops, sales of monitors, stripes go down, insulin, and the pharmas crying because they have lost any clients.....
One should follow their own body and listen to their Docs, and take in cut off levels, but that does not mean the Doc system, or cut offs are correct, and make your own sound and sensible decisions, after all its our bodies not the Doctors or Pharmajs.
Well said, and well raised to attention how the system works...frightening really.
Mallorca