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    Cinnamon and Bitter Melon for reducing fasting levels

    I've seen the results of several people trying cinnamon over in the alt.support.diabetes newsgroup with these results: About half wrote that it helped a little, but barely enough to measure. All but one of the rest wrote that they couldn't measure any difference. One wrote that it increased...
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    Will my leg pain reduce

    Depends on what part of the nerves to your legs heal first. If it's the part that carries the pain to your brain, the pain may even increase for a while. If it's the part that senses the pain, the pain should decrease. Once both have healed as much as they can, it will depend on how much each...
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    Few questions from a newbie

    I've found that dark chocolate is a better choice for diabetics than most of the other varieties - less carbs included.
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    They dont know if im t1 or t2

    Feeling very hungry is a typical sign of poorly controlled diabetes. Bringing it under control decreases the hunger. The tests for whether you are T1 or T2 often take much longer than the simpler tests for whether you have diabetes at all. One of the cheaper tests for this is to give you the...
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    Do your HCPs REALLY listen to good news?

    A similar problem here in the US - the ADA is rather slow at recognizing the research on how much low-carb diets can help. So far they've only gone as far as relaxing their reccommendations on avoiding low-carb diets. This may be partly because someone high up at the ADA some time ago had the...
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    Low Carbing issues.

    I used to have constipation until I was given a laxative. Then it become alternating constipation and diarrhea. Then I was given powdered fibers, to be mixed with water and taken before breakfast. I also added a high-fiber type of rye crackers. The second type of powdered fiber finally...
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    Help! 18months and slipping fast!

    Many type 2s have found that limiting all carbohydrates (both sugar and starch) is more effective for them than the old idea of completely avoiding sugar and following a low-fat diet otherwise. It seems that the old idea that all complex carbohydrates would digest slowly enough that they didn't...
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    Will there ever be a cure?

    I've found that the many announcements of cures for diabetes usually involve someone trying to be better at inventing a new definition for "cure" than he or she is at diabetes research. Not necessarily the researcher; often it is someone trying to rewrite a research report in order to present...
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    Advice needed please!

    I have enough experience with type 2 to say more about it. Hypoglycemia is sometimes an early sign that you will develop type 2 later. If your body isn't using insulin properly, that's usually insulin resistance and means you already have type 2. I haven't seen insulin resistance patches...
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    Type 3 diabetes

    Are you aware that type 3 diabetes has often been used to describe people who don't have diabetes at all but still participate frequently in forums or newsgroups for diabetes? You might want to ask your doctor for another name for that type of diabetes, and write it down so you can look for...