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<blockquote data-quote="SunnyExpat" data-source="post: 919050" data-attributes="member: 200461"><p>'Are doctors too quick to prescribe meds over supporting lifestyle change?'</p><p></p><p>Depends on your point of view.</p><p></p><p>Either prescribe meds that they know will reduce blood sugar, decrease the onset on possible complications, and then reduce the meds if the patient can commit to lifestyle changes that improve their condition at future reviews, or alternatively agree to let a patient try a 'lifestyle change' that may or may not work, if the patient can even commit to the said change, and review after 3 months to a year of more damage?</p><p></p><p>Fortunately for me, I was in the prescribe, then reduce group, after I found a 'lifestyle change' that suited me, but I had the benefit of low blood sugars prior to said change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SunnyExpat, post: 919050, member: 200461"] 'Are doctors too quick to prescribe meds over supporting lifestyle change?' Depends on your point of view. Either prescribe meds that they know will reduce blood sugar, decrease the onset on possible complications, and then reduce the meds if the patient can commit to lifestyle changes that improve their condition at future reviews, or alternatively agree to let a patient try a 'lifestyle change' that may or may not work, if the patient can even commit to the said change, and review after 3 months to a year of more damage? Fortunately for me, I was in the prescribe, then reduce group, after I found a 'lifestyle change' that suited me, but I had the benefit of low blood sugars prior to said change. [/QUOTE]
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