Recent Content by mutango

I'm sure it may sneak up on me again in the future (unless I have the surgery, which I'm looking into). Not until I'm in my fifties though I hope.

Redgrave's Type 1 I believe (according to this anyway: http://www.diabetes.co.uk/celebrities/s ... grave.html).

My GP recommended I go low-carb when I was diagnosed, which I have done only intermittently thus far I admit. The advice from the medical community does seem inconsistent on this but then that's life. The definitive answer is not proven yet. I do favour low-carbing myself, though.

As for whether insulin resistance causes obesity or vice versa, I agree this is arguable. However, I expect exercise, weight loss and healthy lifestyle to defeat both. BTW Ken thanks for the advice re insurance. The insurance co. viirtually laughed at me for notifying them of a condition they...

Well, put it this way. When I pull this off - and notwithstanding insulin resistance or any other hindrance, I will - I'll be 12 stone and ripped like a men's health cover model (albeit unfortunately with a head like a goblin). Do u think many men's health cover models have T2? I don't. As for...

I'm T2 and perhaps 3 and a half stone overweight. My only diabetes management strategies are to eat a low carb diet and exercise like a ****er until the weight comes off. T2 in the young (I'm 33) is (in my opinion) a transient and reversible symptom of obesity. Otherwise why would there be so...

I am mildly aggressive in resisting claims that surgery does not "cure" Type 2 diabetes. It reduces your blood sugars into the normal range, wuthout you having to moderate what you eat, such that no test yet devisd by medical science could tell you were diabetic, whatever they fed you. I'm not...

Great thread this. Daz (and others) I feel your pain, having been diagnosed at 31. I believe it can be controlled. For me weight loss is the key - if I lose four stone I fully expect my sugars to normalise and then I will effectively consider myself cured. That's the challenge I've set myself...

Thanks Sue. I think my diabetes may have been partially caused by stress - I was in a particularly unpleasant situation at work in the three months before I was diagnosed. But I was also much more overweight back then.

I'm probably going to let go of the diet for 3-4 days over Christmas and then get back on it.

Only a doctor can tell you for sure. Simplest thing would be to find a new doctor, with whom you have no history, who can take you through the diagnostics afresh.

Voiding of insurance for a non declaration is only a criminal law issue if you drive AFTER you have been informed the insurance is void, or if the deception was within the legal definition of fraud. Anyway, I have written them a letter. Diabetics are too supine in the face of this kind of...

Hi I am a reasonably recently (well, 2years) diagnosed type 2 diabetic. Of those 2 years I've spent one managing my condition fairly aggressively with diet and exercise, and one basically ignoring it which obviously cannot continue. I am 33, 31 when I was diagnosed. I have a fairly high...

So on what basis is ype 2 diabetes, without complications, a "material" fact in the context of motor insurance? Type 2 diabetes of itself can not impair one's ability to drive, even in the slightest.

Type 2 diabetes is, when writing motor insurance, the very definition of an immaterial fact in that there is no way that type 2 diabetes - in and of itself - can impair your ability to drive. The insurance industry is basically pigsh*t ignorant and doesn't even have the nous to work out that...