Hi
@aard
Like many others here, I too reversed my diabetes with diet/exercise about a month after diagnosis but it seems I am still not completely free from the Dr and DN. Though classed as resolved I still have to have blood, eye checks etc. done annually and I suspect that will probably always be the case.
Its odd this whole remission/reversal issue, in a way it actually gave me more trouble than the diabetes diagnosis did. When I was first diagnosed I was shocked, I thought I can't have diabetes, that sort of thing can't happen to me, but surprisingly I wasn’t frightened or troubled by it except for the fact I didn’t believe it could have happened to me. Denial I suppose. The Dr was all very positive saying I had every chance of reversing it, since from a previous blood test he said I could only have had it for one year max, and the best thing was to tackle it as aggressively as possible with diet and exercise.
So that's what I did. I thought I have to get rid of this as quickly as possible, I don’t want anything to do with diabetes and I wanted to distant myself from any connection with it whatsoever as soon possible. More denial! So when I visited my Dr and received the news I had reversed it I was elated, I thought thank God that's that over and done with. So it came as real shock to be told that actually no its not over and done with completely. Having been given a diabetes diagnosis once there is always a high risk of it returning he informed me and would have to be monitored for this and potential complications, probably for life!
It was only then that it really hit me, I can't slice the word diabetes completely out of my life. It will always be there to a more or lesser degree depending on how I live my life. That’s when I became very depressed and felt overwhelmed by it, despite the reversal. I think if this had all been explained to me from the beginning it would have saved me a lot of upset but my Dr was so positive with his talk about reversal I somehow thought I could shrug it off like some temporary ailment. Looking back now I can see I was in total denial!
Anyway, that was then and this is now. I have finally come to terms with the fact that I am a diabetic in remission, but not free from the Dr unfortunately. I have always hated going to the Dr!