Krystyna23040
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- Type of diabetes
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- Diet only
Thank you @jjraak. I must admit that the only reason that low carb worked for me was the alternative to low carb was a complete nightmare. I was willing to try absolutely anything to save my sight and my right foot. The Panorama programme helped tremendously by highlighting the horrors of foot amputations.Brilliant that such fierce determination can reverse a condition learned "professionals"
Seem to believe is a lost cause
I love sweet carby food and it was so so hard to give it up. I would be queuing for coffee in a coffee shop and the only way to stop myself from buying a sweet treat to go with the coffee was to repeat over and over again in my head the mantra 'what would I prefer - keep my eyes and my feet or eat the sweet treat '. Luckily eyes and feet always won. So I suppose in the end I brainwashed myself.
I believed when I started low carb that, because it was highly likely that I had undiagnosed diabetes for at least 20 years, the best outcome I could hope for was to halt the progression of the foot and eye issues and cut down the amount of insulin I was injecting. Remission and reversal was only for people who had been diagnosed relatively recently.
I really struggle with remission and reversal and diabetes resolved - which I am now coded as because I cannot eat more than 20g carbs a day. My body cannot cope with carbs and it looks like it never will.
Am I any different from someone who is severely allergic to peanuts. If they don't eat peanuts they are ok. But if they eat peanuts they are definitely not ok. The only difference is that carbs were killing me slowly. So they haven't reversed their peanut allergy and I haven't reversed my diabetes. All we are doing is avoiding a substance that is very harmful to us.
I may be over thinking this and of course I am so grateful that there was a treatment that saved my eyes and feet, but no way do I feel that I have beaten diabetes. It is always there - waiting to pounce if I backslide back into carb land.
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