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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 755696" data-attributes="member: 150927">I know just how you feel Killerkaz - I had a similar reaction when I read it soon after I was diagnosed. The targets seemed WAY out of my league. I've read the scary stuff so many times now I've gotten a bit blase about the complications (kind of) (OK - not!) But I just skip the complications list when reading the lit - we know it already - right? Why rub our noses in it again. (Yeah - I know each book needs to make that stuff clear. But that doesn't change what it can be like for us reading it.) I got quite freaked out by the beta cells dying thing, and went to sleep at night petrified at the idea of my last living beta cells in my poor beleaguered pancreas breathing their last, drowning in a sea of blood glucose..... I think I dealt with the anxiety by walking. And walking. And then walking some more. That helped the anxiety AND lowered the blood glucose - luckily a win win <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. I think I also looked for evidence, in online scientific papers - that there is a good chance that pancreas function can be vastly improved by diet and exercise/lifestyle changes. Even without metformin. And there is plenty of such evidence. Dr Bernstein's IS a diabetic's bible, but if it made you feel that way I think you did exactly the right thing - set it aside to read it again at a later date.</blockquote>

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