Hi Joanne and welcome
Your words are music to our ears. A symphony in fact.
I am currently building up a file to take into my surgery. The file includes my story so far since diagnosis. Also a booklet forum members have put together 'inspirational stories' where many of us wrote in our own words about our journeys. The usual theme running through each one. Diagnosis. Unhelpful instructions given (In a nutshell). People fumbling in the dark to find their way to a healthier lifestyle that might not have to involve meds or it being the progressive disease you are told it is and just being able to take control of our blood sugars. 'Don't bother testing'. 'Eat anything you like but try to cut down on sugars'. "Come back in 6 months'. DESMOND courde where you are offered tea and biscuits. Then we discovered this forum. And the magic happened. But it's not really magic. The LCHF woe just works, for type 1 and type 2's. So the individual stories include everyone getting their bloods to non diabetic levels and sometimes from a very high HbA1c and usually in a very short space of time. Its a powerful tool in our battle (that's what it feels like) I'm also taking a blood glucose testing leaflet that
@Rachox kindly put together. It shows must how important it is for us to test go gain that control. My gp told me I could have reversed it by low cal/low fat diet but when I asked for stats from the surgery to see how many pts had done so it seems I'm the only one apart from post bariatric surgery pts. It's a large surgery with 8 Drs, 4 nurses, 2 paramedic practitioners and other hca's. I was shocked but not surprised.
I can now add your details to my file as well as Dr Unwins paper. I expect a brick wall but you have given us hope. We are trying to get into the media to spread the word and just last week a group of us met up in Birmingham. Supported by DCUK and their PR team we had photos and videos done in the hope of getting our story out there. Took our big pants etc as we have all lost a significant amount of weight on our journey to better health. Up to now we have managed a few newspaper and magazine articles between us as individuals and a radio interview. But we thought together our voice would travel further. Hoping we van vet onto mainstream tv within 12 months. Really spread the word.
Just waiting to hear from DCUK re the next step from the PR exercise.
@CherryAA is working on a project too which should make a significant impact so I'm tagging her in.
Is there a list of other hcp's who teach people the same thing?
Thank you for joining.