Regardless of type, can you count it as either if you can’t eat a diet that includes what is commonly regarded as a “normal” amount of carbohydrate without you blood sugars going out of a healthy range? I’d say not. If you can’t eat carbohydrate without getting high BG then you still have diabetes.
Food is medicine;
Medicine is medicine;
Insulin is medicine.
If you have to adjust any of these things out of line with what you did before diagnosis, then in my opinion you still have diabetes.
I went to my consultant on Friday to get a Dexcom, and she was concerned about my low Hba1c of 35, so I showed her this 3 month average chart that covered that period (to assuage her worries of too many hypos) and she actually said “you’ve cured your diabetes!” - to which I replied, sadly not but I do work very hard and make a lot of food sacrifices to manage it.
Non-diabetic levels do not mean you are cured of diabetes - just that you’re managing the condition (of whatever type) with food and/or medication. If you can’t eat whatever you want without your levels going silly, you’re still diabetic. Well managed isn’t cured or reversed.
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