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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
Hi all.
New to the Forum but not to diabetes.
I just would like to ask people here what do they think of the level of knowledge displayed by the diabetic treatment teams they visit?
I ask this out of frustration. In recent times I was trying to come up with ways to better manage my Blood Sugars and discovered the low-carb/keto diet. This was a revelation for me as the level of control is crazy. I don't get the BG spikes anymore or I don't require crazy amounts of insulin anymore, and I RARELY have a hypo! Yes keeping your BG level optimal reduces hypos because the trend in BG moves very slowly up/down so it's very easy to predict.
So I was chatting with people in the health care industry and other type one diabetics and I get this "OH NO YOU HAVE KETONES". Yet they won't take the time to listen that I have those intentionally and the Ketone levels are miles away from a ketoacidosis level, and ketoacidosis won't happen when keeping BG optimal with small amounts of insulin, how is this hard to understand? I explain that I can get out of the Ketosis in a very short time with a few carbs and insulin and they still don't understand.
To me, it seems that they are taught a certain way to treat diabetes and not taught about the condition itself.
This is just one very small example I could think of but have ran into many more mind boggling examples before, I just said I'd mention the keto diet as an example. Has anybody ever been told to do something that you know isn't the best for you and so on? Is the approach to treat diabetes dated?
Thanks
New to the Forum but not to diabetes.
I just would like to ask people here what do they think of the level of knowledge displayed by the diabetic treatment teams they visit?
I ask this out of frustration. In recent times I was trying to come up with ways to better manage my Blood Sugars and discovered the low-carb/keto diet. This was a revelation for me as the level of control is crazy. I don't get the BG spikes anymore or I don't require crazy amounts of insulin anymore, and I RARELY have a hypo! Yes keeping your BG level optimal reduces hypos because the trend in BG moves very slowly up/down so it's very easy to predict.
So I was chatting with people in the health care industry and other type one diabetics and I get this "OH NO YOU HAVE KETONES". Yet they won't take the time to listen that I have those intentionally and the Ketone levels are miles away from a ketoacidosis level, and ketoacidosis won't happen when keeping BG optimal with small amounts of insulin, how is this hard to understand? I explain that I can get out of the Ketosis in a very short time with a few carbs and insulin and they still don't understand.
To me, it seems that they are taught a certain way to treat diabetes and not taught about the condition itself.
This is just one very small example I could think of but have ran into many more mind boggling examples before, I just said I'd mention the keto diet as an example. Has anybody ever been told to do something that you know isn't the best for you and so on? Is the approach to treat diabetes dated?
Thanks