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RoyG - I think you are right to err on the careful side, and I certainly wouldn't want to influence your chosen approach. Good luck with that. My Hba1c is going to be measured in September, so by then it should give a useful indication.

It has nothing to do with levels of proactivity, so you are taking offence at a straw man. Don't be offended. What I am saying is that if you know you have internal damage that is irreversible, and that you need medication to manage it, then that is one thing, but if you don't yet have that...

On the point about categories, spectra, etc.: There is a substantive difference between someone who can remain perfectly healthy for life just by choosing an appropriate diet and lifestyle, and someone who needs medical intervention to do so. That applies to obesity and also to blood glucose...

I'm open to grey areas, certainly, but is it really true that a low-carb diet carries its own health risks? How low are we talking here, and how high are the risks?

I think I should try to summarise my position here, as I am confusing myself! Several categories: 1. 'healthy' - person who can eat junk food and still keep BG within healthy limits. 2. 'Naturally controlled' diabetic - person who can keep BG within healthy limits using diet and exercise...

Isn't the source of this problem that diabetes is diagnosed on BG levels alone, or with Hba1c levels? This is where I came in. They diagnose on the basis of BG levels, and then the question is how are you going to decide whether someone gets better? There has to be an underlying physiological...

The flip-side of this, of course, is that people who have been maintaining a healthy diet for a while might have no idea whether they are diabetic. What i am trying to say is that for me there seems to be a very important point to be made - and that the medical profession has not been making...

RoyG - thanks for that. I think this guy is the best reference source I've found to date. He makes a lot of sense. Just on one point at the beginning of your post, though, I think fats have to be the right sort of fats. paragliderpete - it seems to me that there are two sides to this. On the...

No, I wasn't saying such D&E successes are non-diabetic; just that their diabetes amounts to a surviving inability to manage excessive levels of carb intake, as SouthernGeneral6512 suggested. If that inability is attributable to a damaged pancreas, though (as a separate point), I also wonder...

I think that seems to be about it. But the irony is, of course, that they are not, in fact, normal. They are the levels of carb intake foisted upon us by the modern food industry. The 'low-carb' diet we are all trying to maintain is very similar to the diet of our ancestors - the diet we...

It comes down to greed and profiteering. Money and integrity make rare bedfellows. http://www.cchr.org/cchr-reports/invent ... ction.html http://www.amazon.co.uk/Selling-Sicknes ... 286&sr=1-6 Plenty of interesting material to read. Just do a search for 'inventing sickness / disease / illness'

Yes, I've had the carb diet from my nurse already, and as you will know, it is in the official NHS leaflet. It doesn't make any sense to me either, and I am frankly dumbfounded that the NHS just seems to blindly hang onto it. There's a great series of videos (five parts) on YouTube here...

OK, so the central point is that there are enduring, defined, physical disorders that render someone as an ongoing diabetic. That's fine - totally comprehensible. A pity my GP practice didn't manage to explain it. So even if I need to continue with a very strict diet and exercise regime, I...

I'm having a big problem getting my head around this, so I'd appreciate any experts on here who can clarify things for me. I finally got to see a 'diabetes nurse' a few days ago, and I found our conversation very frustrating (and unhelpful). She wanted me to just accept that i now have...

I went on it for about four weeks and by the end of that I was getting all sorts of abdominal pains - sharp knife-stabs, burning aches, muscle ripples, ribcage soreness, to the point where I was lying awake at night and had to get up and move around. It was awful. I've come off the Metformin...

I'm no doctor, but I'd definitely keep off the tablets and continue to watch your BG levels. They look completely normal to me. My BG level was in the mid-teens, and I controlled it with diet and exercise. Metformin had horrible effects.

Hi everyone - and sorry to have lost touch with the forum. I appreciate the replies. I am not sure about the fructose/glucose issue, but in the end it really doesn't matter. Two years ago my BG was way too high and needed to come down. I managed that through diet and exercise, but again...

I am not sure whether you are on medication, but if you are it could be that making you feel bad. I went on to metformin for about four or five weeks and couldn't understand why I was getting horrible abdominal pains all the time. I came off it of my own accord because I was feeling exhausted...

Hi everyone - my first post. And it is a bit different. Last week I took a urine glucose test (positive) and then a fasting blood glucose test, and it came out at 16.3. This was the first indication I have ever had that I had a problem. Two years ago, and again three years ago, I got fasting...