@Lamont D - I feel like this deserves something better than I have the nouce to convey.
I know that almost everything
I do on the forum is really about building up the motivation to make a better decision in the next couple of hours, and I've only been doing this for less than a year. Taking the knocks can be hard. But - I also recognise that it isn't just about a selfish urge to do more ourselves; we're here to help each other - one fascinating side avenue on the entire scientific side of all of this, is the power of
connection - we are not islands, humans are animals that connect and form communities, and this is as real a thing as understanding what a hormone is.
You have done more for more people than you can be aware of...
Allow yourself to take some of that support back - there are people rooting for you, and you will rebound..
I thank you
@Chris24Main.
The support over time since I joined this forum has been nothing but incredible, and so it continues.
You would not imagine the praise I have received from the newbies, to the understanding behind not only T2, prediabetes, RH, and similar conditions. Cos of using my experience of my journey over the last two decades.
I was helped with the knowledge of others that preceded my joining, and took it forward with the help of so many including the mods, staff and administrators, that we could start our own sub forum on a rare condition for those with RH and the similar rarer conditions.
I could not find information like this, anywhere.
And I tried to find how, why, the science was difficult to find.
The one guy I was lucky to find, was my endo, he did literally save my life, cos No other medical professional knew what was happening.
How can someone have hypos without being T1, T3, or a T2 without meds?
It stumped one endo, who thought it was a alcoholic fatty liver!
It wasnt!
I was misdiagnosed T2, it wasn't!
Only one other person on here knew about RH, and that had developed into T2. As I have skirted with since diagnosis. So if I sound a bit disappointed with my latest, I am!
But it won't stop me from battling back.
There are thousands out there with metabolic conditions that don't understand what carbs and production additives and sugars are doing to us.
When I tell people especially those that believe that what the food companies want me to eat as healthy.
They are amazed and ask questions about what I do eat. Because, despite the advetts, it is not healthy for me.
It was slowly, certainly killing me. And they were the basic foodstuffs.
If T2 and prediabetes was shown to be a food condition similar to an allergy, it would be better advice than what they get now!
I'm still learning, discovering the intricacies of certain aspects of how our body's ability to be so diverse within metabolic issues. To understand the science and find how to approach issues that differ from mine.
Always trying to understand what the poster the information they require at the state of their present circumstances.
As a layperson, I aim to do no harm, explain the reasoning, try to get their trust, and offer a welcome and understanding that I have been through this. And of course offer my experience.
Thanks again, I do really hope that your time as a mod, is as satisfying as mine with answering posters on the RH forum.
Best wishes.
