Advice needed on diets

walk39isl said:

It is actually just personal experience of cooking chicken and broccoli only for two weeks with no linguine - I forgot to buy from that nice Jewish store Tescos. The gut blockages are caused by rice and hard boiled eggs I find. The clozapine in insulin or gliptin in small dosages and causing gut blockages (poo balls) is well known in the diabetic community and I used to live next door to a renal team staff member and their Cmht relatives who found the same thing despite moving from gp to gp to avoid clozapine in the injectable insulin. I am not a middle class barrister like my gp surgeon renal team social worker brother so I cannot pull up sites and paperwork to put on here. I have actually been told off for my posts today. I speak as a long term diabetic.

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Is this your experience, with the gut blockages, or is it something you have heard?

I'm somewhat concerned about your suggestions that insulin contains. I know of no insulin, or gliptin containing clozapine. My understanding is clozapine is not prescribed for diabetes.

Do you use insulin, or clozapine yourself? It really would be useful to tell us where you heard these things, because as someone who has been living with diabetes for a while, I'm struggling to understand your understanding of things.

DCUKMod said:

Is this your experience, with the gut blockages, or is it something you have heard?

I'm somewhat concerned about your suggestions that insulin contains. I know of no insulin, or gliptin containing clozapine. My understanding is clozapine is not prescribed for diabetes.

Do you use insulin, or clozapine yourself? It really would be useful to tell us where you heard these things, because as someone who has been living with diabetes for a while, I'm struggling to understand your understanding of things.

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Hi,

As an insulin user myself. I can catagorically state insulin does not contain "clozapine."
Bowel issues are not a side effect of insulin.. However, it is listed as a side efect for the drug clozapine.

OK?? Back on topic focusing on the question set by the OP, ladies & gentlemen..

& thanks for your understanding.

@John-H - My apologies for meandering off-topic on your thread.

I think the decision of whether you stay on your meal plan or not, for now, is up to you. However, if you do decide to stay on The Cambridge, I would strongly urge you to think carefully about what you will do when you do transition off.

I have never done the Cambridge diet or anything akin to it, and when diagnosed I didn't consider it, as my OH and I always eat together; particularly in the evenings, and virtually always have the same meal. There are some, few, exceptions, but it was important to both of us to still be able to eat (the same meals) together.

I didn't call my changes to my eating anything in particular, but instead I bought myself a blood sugar monitor to enable me to work out which foods worked for me. Seven years in, I still do the same, although for tried and trsuted meals I rarely test these days.

Good luck with whatever you decide to try.