Ladybirdy75
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Glad that it can be fascinating when you're going through the wringer. You're proving your strength to beat this!
Thank you. I've done 4 decades of Type 1 and i don't know who posted it earlier in the thread but i fall right in his .....
2.Eat lots of starchy carbs, keep your HBA1C at 7 or below = you'll escape the first decade or 2 relatively unscathed, however the macrovascular/microvascular damage is being done; the retinopathy, neuropathy, atherosclerosis is nearly knocking at the door..and to top it off u will be middle aged, overweight with Insulin resistance - even if you want to change when problems start occurring it may be too late."
Had a heart attack in March and diagnosed with further coronary heart disease, now recently been diagnosed with insulin resistance and after a thyroid function test last week and I've been called in to discuss treatment for an under active thyroid and to top it all off I'm going to have a lump in my breast, which i found last sunday checked next week . Going to stay positive though . I've also had retinopathy in both eyes and have had a vitrectomy on the left and have nephropathy although very thankfully it's stable and a symptomatic.
I do try so very hard to stay healthy. I eat as healthily as i can (Mediterranean/slimming world combo but no bread, rice, potato, pasta, baked beans just veg, nuts, oily fish and some low GI fruits) plus i exercise every day. Been working hard to bring my HbA1c levels down.
I originally came on here to gen up on T1, breast cancer and managing your levels throughout chemo should the worse happen but found this thread and it lured me in️.
You're all so clever, i often feel like i don't have the mental capacity to work this stuff out. Probably why i'm up the swanny desperately trying to keep hold of my paddle.
I look as fit as a fiddle though