Recent Content by Ronancastled

The saturated fat argument has been completely debunked but not yet accepted by the medical profession due to many vested interests. The same medical profession that never warned you about your rising A1c. Porridge is carb heavy, the very thing you need to avoid. Try eggs , bacon, mushrooms...

Finally I see that they've published a full paper on the ReTune Study on the 31st of Aug 2023. https://portlandpress.com/clinsci/article/137/16/1333/233394/Aetiology-of-Type-2-diabetes-in-people-with-a Rather than subject them to a standard 75g OGTT Taylor has come up with a convoluted test &...

Greetings @Zeenia I went for the scheduled eye scan about 3 months after diagnosis then I received a letter to tell me I had Background Retinopathy in one eye. A detailed report gets sent to your GP, the surgery nurse told me a R1 & R2 was detected in one eye, these were microaneurysms & were...

A rapid decrease in blood sugar is known to accelerate retinopathy in the short term. Doctors are advised to taper a patients BG down slowly to minimise this risk. I presume this is where the correlation comes from

There was a study a few years ago where 153 healthy non-diabetics wore CGMs. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31127824/ https://www.diabetesdaily.com/forum/threads/a-study-where-153-non-diabetics-wore-a-dexcom-what-truly-normal-looks-like.137801/ So a non-diabetic spends 30 mins a day above...

Yes, a virus can raise your BG but I would have expected to see that reflected in your fasting level too. Had you been eating normally in the days leading up to the test ? Were you watching your carbs or fasting ? The 8.2mmol/L is only just into the cutoff for pre-diabetes (>7.8) so just...

We all know that feeling, once we were you. The advice can be condensed as such: (1) Research low carb. (2) Get a meter. (3) Eat to that meter. The medical profession do not cover themselves in glory in T2 management & just recite 20 year old dogma. It's your body so my advice is to school up &...

Greetings @sgiossi Congrats on dropping your A1c. In regards to your OGTT, did you eat more carbs in the 3 days preceeding, the advice is to eat >150gs of carbs in the days before the test. If you were eating low carb then the results are skewed.

Firstly I would ask my doc for a fasting insulin test & perhaps antibody tests to rule out variations of T1. Further info required but at least it will confirm your diagnosis. In the meantime continue low carb but increase protein/fat.

Great work & wonderful recording. Diet looks perfect, mastered already. Just a bit of dawn phenomenon but that will improve with time, mine took about 6 months. Keep it up & report back

we were all you in the beginning, I was obsessive about my readings 7-10 times a day testing everything. Good readings would put me a great mood, one bad reading could ruin my week, the pressure of the blood draw at the surgery . . . then the wait for the nurse to ring. I was obsessive. what...

Great news & consider that the nerve issues you endured may have been partly the result of returning sensation. Like the boiling frog we may no feel the slow loss of sensation overtime, but we sure feel it when it returns. This was me experience, I became hyper sensitive if anything but all...

Only long term data you'll find on T2 remission comes from bariatric surgery. Look up the Swedish Obesity Study, large cohort still in remission 15+ years after 20-30% weight loss. Only evidence you'll find of T2 "recovery" (loaded term) is in obese T2s who's diagnosis is picked up early...

There can be noted differences between capillary readings & venous lab draws but I would still question your meter(s). Drop into your local pharmacy & ask them to test you on their own model which they will. Control solutions have too wide a range & are useless. On the subject of your 2hr 75g...

This is where a CGM comes in most useful. You could see the immediate effect of exercise & whether or not the fats caused a pizza effect.