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- Type of diabetes
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I have in the past been a poster in this thread sharing my success with LC diets and gaining control of my bgl while reducing my T2D oral meds as well. I have done this for at least 4 years now, and my last HbA1c was 42, and my GP noted me as being non-diabetic. I just considered I was In Control, and have never claimed to have remission or reversal.
This last point came home to me last month when I had a blue light trip to A&E with breathing difficulties. Seems I had had two heart attacks and both my kidneys had failed. The breathing problem gave me a huge adrenalin rush, which prevented my high level of insulin from storing any of my sky high glucose, and my kidneys were not filtering it out for excretion either. So I was in a perfect storm. They gave me insulin drip which did absolutely nada, proving I was producing my own insulin in extremis. So I had to wait till I calmed down and regained my breathing. Cutting to the pith of this story I did survive, and have recovered all my functions now, but I remain in hospital awaiting bypass surgery.
That is my intro, but the success that follows is even more surprising. My sugars were in places where the meter just says HI or KETONES and refuses to give any hint of what it measured. While recuperating on the ward, I was fed hospital food. ER, YES, ER High Carb starchy with pasta or potato and pudddings with custard. Full frontal, and the nurses stood over me spoon feeding me to make sure I got the right nutrients. I could not avoid, amd what is more sinister they stopped all my diabetic meds completely. Then admonished me for not being in control of my diabetes. I managed to switch to salads and get some control going, but still high.
Then they put me on a diuretic and this made me lose half a stone in weight. I saw my glucose levels drop steadily, until I was getting fasting levels below 6 mmol/l every morning. Then I experimented and started eating the normal meals with pasta and potato, and amazingly my bgl stayed below 9 mmol/l I am still off my gliclazide, but they have restarted my Metformin. An HbA1c they took last week was 46, and yesterday the consultant declared me officially In Remision. They have also stopped monitoring my bgl apart from one random reading a day at the nurses whim.
I had my birthday two days ago, and I started with 2 slices of toast with marmalade in the morning, had 2 triple choc fudge slices for cofee after normal lunch, went to the hospital cafe and had 2 danish pastries and a large cheese twist pastry. then had pasta bake for supper and then did a 2 hr post prandial. My fasting fbg had been 5.4 and my post prandial was 7.4 and my next day fbg was 5.2. So I agree to being in Remission, but accept I can still be diabetic T2D.
I will have to control my weight, and return to an LC diet after my op.But the last 4 years of LC lifestyle has certainly paid dividends now, and I am much more carb tolerant now than I have been for many years.
This last point came home to me last month when I had a blue light trip to A&E with breathing difficulties. Seems I had had two heart attacks and both my kidneys had failed. The breathing problem gave me a huge adrenalin rush, which prevented my high level of insulin from storing any of my sky high glucose, and my kidneys were not filtering it out for excretion either. So I was in a perfect storm. They gave me insulin drip which did absolutely nada, proving I was producing my own insulin in extremis. So I had to wait till I calmed down and regained my breathing. Cutting to the pith of this story I did survive, and have recovered all my functions now, but I remain in hospital awaiting bypass surgery.
That is my intro, but the success that follows is even more surprising. My sugars were in places where the meter just says HI or KETONES and refuses to give any hint of what it measured. While recuperating on the ward, I was fed hospital food. ER, YES, ER High Carb starchy with pasta or potato and pudddings with custard. Full frontal, and the nurses stood over me spoon feeding me to make sure I got the right nutrients. I could not avoid, amd what is more sinister they stopped all my diabetic meds completely. Then admonished me for not being in control of my diabetes. I managed to switch to salads and get some control going, but still high.
Then they put me on a diuretic and this made me lose half a stone in weight. I saw my glucose levels drop steadily, until I was getting fasting levels below 6 mmol/l every morning. Then I experimented and started eating the normal meals with pasta and potato, and amazingly my bgl stayed below 9 mmol/l I am still off my gliclazide, but they have restarted my Metformin. An HbA1c they took last week was 46, and yesterday the consultant declared me officially In Remision. They have also stopped monitoring my bgl apart from one random reading a day at the nurses whim.
I had my birthday two days ago, and I started with 2 slices of toast with marmalade in the morning, had 2 triple choc fudge slices for cofee after normal lunch, went to the hospital cafe and had 2 danish pastries and a large cheese twist pastry. then had pasta bake for supper and then did a 2 hr post prandial. My fasting fbg had been 5.4 and my post prandial was 7.4 and my next day fbg was 5.2. So I agree to being in Remission, but accept I can still be diabetic T2D.
I will have to control my weight, and return to an LC diet after my op.But the last 4 years of LC lifestyle has certainly paid dividends now, and I am much more carb tolerant now than I have been for many years.