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Dillinger

Dillinger

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Hello,

I joined up a while ago and have been lurking, but thought I should make myself known.

So, anyone want to buy some vitamins? Ho,ho, ho...

I'm a type one diabetic and have been for nearly 30 years. The biggest revelation for me was realising that a high carb diet was a major problem about 5 years ago. I'm still constantly surprised how slowly this trickles down into the medical profession. I do love the NHS but it really is so slow and reactionary at times.

I just recently had a HbA1c of 6.9 and said to my nurse that it was high for x,y and z reasons and I hoped to get it down next time and she said that I mustn't as that would put me at too much risk of hypos...

Ah well, anyway nice to be part of this and I look forward to contributing and being a part of this going forward.

As a sign off I wonder what people's general view is of the preventative drug regime that is current, i.e. statins, lisinopril, asprin and the apparently dreaded vitamin supplements (am I getting that wrong ? People seem to be getting very worked up about vitamins...). Personally, I think if the side effects aren't too troubling we should all be taking as much as possible of the aforementioned, what is the downside?
 
Hi Dillinger,

Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy yourself here.

There is a thread that discusses statins which can be found here.

As for aspirin, well there does appear to be evidence that aspirin isn't really helpful until you've had a cardiac event :) however there is a new study, ASCEND, which is setting out to demonstrate the usefulness of aspirin and Omega-3 oils to diabetics who haven't had a cardiac event.

Regards, Tubs.
 
Hi Dillinger,welcome to the forum. My personal opinion,and it is very much my own opinion,is that the package they automatically offer to diabetes is not ALWAYS necessary. All medications have side effects and are chemicals that you do not always need in your body.there will come a day when I may need these medications for real.Until that day comes I ,personally will strive to control my diabetes as naturally as possible.

As for supplements just be aware that,just because it is a 'natural' product does not automatically make it a safe product, it may interact with other medications that you are taking and ,as yet ,there is not a great deal of info on some of these products and their interactions with chemical medications.
 
IMO (and I stress *opinion*) an ACE or ARB is beneficial as they are kidney protective as well as reducing BP. You can do a lot to improve lipids with a diet not containing the toxic levels of carbs they (mostly) push. A widely varied diet containing lots of bioflavinoids and antioxidants is also a good plan, and not only for diabetics. (See the Eat The Rainbow sticky) Plenty of Omega 3s to balance against the Omega 6s which are usually in excess also helps, I get mine from fish as a whole rather than the oil separately, but then I live near the coast and have a couple of excellent sources of smoked salmon.

The Vitamin D connection does appear to be genuine though overhyped by one specific poster. In general getting these things from food rather than supplements as much as possible is cheaper and tastier
 
Thanks all - I guess with the lisinopril and the like it is always a personal view, but I'm quite happy to take anything that may delay the arrival of the problems we all potentially may suffer.

I really do think that a low carb diet and lots of exercise is the best way of getting long term control though.
 
My consultant took me off asprin last time I saw him.

He reckons the benefit is very small and the long term gastric problems with regular doses of asprin are no worth risking.
 
hi all,

just thought i would say hello,

hello.

ive been type 1 for 12 years now and after years of bad control i was diagnosed with neouropathy in dec 07.
the medication that i'm on is: insulin pump using novarapid (before pump was using lantus aswell)
pregablin for neouropathy (was on amitrityline and recently using amitrityline in conjuction with pregablin)
asprin
simvastin

a year ago my Hba1c was 13.8% now it is still high at 8.6% but once stable on insulin pump will bring it down. i have had cataracts in both eyes but has been sorted.

My doc did put my on lisinopril but made me feel very ill like flu, changed it to an ARB but made blood pressure to low. my blood pressure is normally around 110/60 but when on the ARB it dropped to 75/45 so was taken off them.

well thats my story so far :D
 
Dillinger said:
Hello,

I joined up a while ago and have been lurking, but thought I should make myself known.

So, anyone want to buy some vitamins? Ho,ho, ho...

I'm a type one diabetic and have been for nearly 30 years. The biggest revelation for me was realising that a high carb diet was a major problem about 5 years ago. I'm still constantly surprised how slowly this trickles down into the medical profession. I do love the NHS but it really is so slow and reactionary at times.

I just recently had a HbA1c of 6.9 and said to my nurse that it was high for x,y and z reasons and I hoped to get it down next time and she said that I mustn't as that would put me at too much risk of hypos...

Ah well, anyway nice to be part of this and I look forward to contributing and being a part of this going forward.

As a sign off I wonder what people's general view is of the preventative drug regime that is current, i.e. statins, lisinopril, aspirin and the apparently dreaded vitamin supplements (am I getting that wrong ? People seem to be getting very worked up about vitamins...). Personally, I think if the side effects aren't too troubling we should all be taking as much as possible of the aforementioned, what is the downside?
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Hello,

This is my 1,000 post on the forum! It has taken me some time - my first was on February 5th 2009 and that is it above.

I'm pleased to say my HbA1c has come down; to 6.1% at the last check in.

I'm pleased still to be flying the low-carb flag.

I'm also pleased that there doesn't seem to be so much heat about vitamins nowadays (I take loads of carefully selected ones).

I've completely revised my view on statins though (and to a lesser extend aspirin which I don't take any more) and that is very much down to the arguments and information put forward here and I've got a far better understanding of the detail of diabetes from glucose metabolism to dawn phenomena to the mechanics of cholesterol manufacture and transport.

So, thank you to everyone for the help and support. But let me also say thank you for the arguments too; I think they have been vital for me increasing my knowledge; if you can't test what you think against sometimes very vociferous and knowledgeable people who disagree with you, you can't really learn anything (whether you were right or wrong).

All my best; health happiness and knowledge to all.

Dillinger
 
I bow to you sir.
I agree with you totally the arguments can be vital at times and I hope your next 1000 will be for the good of us all
 
well spoken posts by you at all times

respect :)
 
I always read your advice with interest and can often act on it, so many thanks @Dillinger and congratulations on your 1000th. Yours is always the voice of reason.
 
Thank you very much guys; I'm just copying people who know more than me...

I'm attending a new diabetes clinic in a couple of weeks; I'm interested to see how they take to the low-carb world view.

I'll have to try and gauge whether they are open to it or whether I need to duck and cover...

Best

Dillinger
 
Dillinger said:
Thank you very much guys; I'm just copying people who know more than me...

I'm attending a new diabetes clinic in a couple of weeks; I'm interested to see how they take to the low-carb world view.

I'll have to try and gauge whether they are open to it or whether I need to duck and cover...

Best

Dillinger
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You mean dcuk and cover...
Let us know how you get on.
 
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