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Almost 6 years now

Resurgam

Resurgam

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Location
Dorset, on the south coast of England
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Diet only
Ever since the start of 2017 I have managed my type 2 diabetes by eating low carb, at first with a limit of 50gm of carbs a day and now no more than 40. I used to eat twice a day and now it is often only once, but it seems to be good for me, I feel well, and recently I have been checking my BG levels and they range around the mid 6's - that's mmol/l.
Due to my clothes starting to slide south again, I am fairly sure that I am losing a bit of weight. If not weight then waistline reduction.
I have had Covid 5 times, I think - plus a bad reaction to Metformin and Atorvastatin after being pushed to eat a high carb diet for a very long time, with my weight gain being blamed on my resistance to good advice on diet, after the AZ jab I thought that I might lose toes, if not a foot, but all in all, at 72 years old my main worry is getting a dentist and the possibility of having to stop driving for a cataract to be sorted out.
This is not, of course how type 2 is supposed to go, even though back in the last century Dr Atkins was seeing patients at his clinic beat it, and lose weight and experience improvements in many aspects of their health.
I could almost feel guilty about doing so well.
 
You are an absolute inspiration, and have contributed immensely to my personal progress by sharing yours. It's lonely out there when first diagnosed, but I suspect I am far from the only Board member who has benefitted from you and others equally wise who have told us how it is.
 
I just turned up some old papers and found some print outs from my GP given to me some time back. Having read them with fresh eyes, I note that my blood tests done in early 2003 and 2005 show elevated blood glucose levels. I don't have any earlier tests but I know they were done as these were annual checks because my thyroid failed some years earlier.
No one ever mentioned diabetes as a possibility, but I was asked on several occasions if there was diabetes in the family history. Yes. It has always been in my notes. I know because I read them once when the GP was called away, back in the 1980s.
I was diagnosed type 2 in late 2016.
All that time I was being urged to cut fat and eat carbs, to exercise and lose weight, and failing.
All that time wasted.
 
I'm a new member, so have missed all the help and guidance you gave back then.

The diabetes nurse gave me a printout telling me to eat lean meat and to eat carbs. I've done the opposite.

I wish that the GP had done tests years ago to establish that I was insulin resistant. I could have taken action much earlier then, and possibly avoided my T2 diagnosis.

But there's no point in crying over spilt milk (and other such clichés). Onwards and upwards!
 
I’ve had high blood pressure since my daughter was born 36 years ago and didn’t know then that it was a precursor to T2D! Like @IanBish has said all those years wasted doing Slimming World, Weight Watchers and blaming myself because they didn’t work!
 
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