- Messages
- 810
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
Hi Sparrow
Well done for dropping your HbA1c and certainly it would seem you have good control. You don't say what medications or diet you are currently on. You mentioned that if you 'slip off diet or stop taking tablets' so that suggests to me that you are on some medication for your diabetes and also on a specific diet related to controlling your diabetes.
My interpretation of 'Reversed Type 2' would be when taking NO medication for diabetes, including Metformin, and able to eat a 'normal' diet, ie including some bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, pastry etc, without blood glucose levels raising more than a non-diabetics would. However, if any meds or diet is required to control blood glucose levels, to my mind, you would still be considered diabetic.
I think, but I could be wrong of course, that someone who has (probably lost a lot of weight) been able to come off all meds can then have a normal glucose tolerance test. For me, this is what I understand/feel is 'reversed' diabetes. The diabetes would 'return' if the diabetic gained sufficient weight to increase insulin resistance again and then have raised blood glucose levels.
I don't feel a diabetic can 'cure' their diabetes, even if glucose levels return to normal without meds/diet. I tend to think of it as being 'in remission', suggesting this state is potentially only temporary and could show itself again at some stage, or maybe not show itself ever again.
So, that's just my personal view. Hopefully, others will be able to correct me if I'm not correct in this view
Well done for dropping your HbA1c and certainly it would seem you have good control. You don't say what medications or diet you are currently on. You mentioned that if you 'slip off diet or stop taking tablets' so that suggests to me that you are on some medication for your diabetes and also on a specific diet related to controlling your diabetes.
My interpretation of 'Reversed Type 2' would be when taking NO medication for diabetes, including Metformin, and able to eat a 'normal' diet, ie including some bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, pastry etc, without blood glucose levels raising more than a non-diabetics would. However, if any meds or diet is required to control blood glucose levels, to my mind, you would still be considered diabetic.
I think, but I could be wrong of course, that someone who has (probably lost a lot of weight) been able to come off all meds can then have a normal glucose tolerance test. For me, this is what I understand/feel is 'reversed' diabetes. The diabetes would 'return' if the diabetic gained sufficient weight to increase insulin resistance again and then have raised blood glucose levels.
I don't feel a diabetic can 'cure' their diabetes, even if glucose levels return to normal without meds/diet. I tend to think of it as being 'in remission', suggesting this state is potentially only temporary and could show itself again at some stage, or maybe not show itself ever again.
So, that's just my personal view. Hopefully, others will be able to correct me if I'm not correct in this view