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Not "just" carb intolerant, no. Nutrition and health are very complex subjects, and intertwined to an incredible degree. I didn't really appreciate that until I adopted a largely vegan diet following a 30 day juice fast, but I have gone from 4 insulin shots a day plus metformin with quite...

First of all, good luck to anyone embarking on this. I'd like to share my story. I developed diabetes a year after being diagnosed with Sarcoidosis and being placed on a long term steroid program to control it. I started off on insulin after being hospitalised following a being tested at 33...

I had a level of 33 when I as firt diagnosed with diabetes. I had done a blood test for another condition, and the hospital sent out a paramedic to my home, who measured my blood sugar at 33 and promptly called an ambulance. I was admitted as an emergency, put on drips, and onto insulin. That...

I don't accept it. I have steroid induced diabetes, and if anyone say I have diabetes I deny it. I only have diabetes because I am on medication for another condition - which sucks. If I stop the medication my diabetes goes away, and the amount of metformin I need to control my diabetes varies...

Er, thanks, maybe. So my question, instead of being listed as a new thread, is now buried on page 16 of some humongous thread people probably never bother reading any more because of the size. Not really sure that's going to help me get the answers I'm looking for. :roll:

I'm constantly told that exercise helps enormously with Diabetes, but I don't seem able to get started! For the last 5 years or so I have been a bit of a couch potato (or rather a desk potato, tied to a computer monitor at work), but prior to that I was a gym freak. In my 30's I was a avid...

Metformin and hypos I have been dx diabetic for 6 months now. I was dx type 1 and on insulin injections to start, but was borderline and responded well too well (!) to that and was downgraded to type 2 after about 6 weeks as I was starting to flirt with hypos. When tested again my pancreas had...