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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prancer53" data-source="post: 1209865" data-attributes="member: 85578"><p>Years ago when diets changed, and type 1s were overnight supposed to eat a lot of cho in order t/b healthy (only because docs and NICE had decided that most people could not stick to a strict low cho diet so went off the rails, which resulted in high blood sugars, so solution was to find a way to let diabetes peeps eat as much cho as they wished as long as medication used compensated for it--shame because prob with diabetes is metabolisation of cho...........!!!!!), I can remember saying to my husband that I couldn't do that because of the negative effect it would have on my control of diabetes. I remained doing what I have always done. No doctor, DSN or consultant ever even asked what sort of diet I was on and I hadn't even seen a dietician for 50 years (and when I did she did not even know how much cho was in a slice of bread, didn't listen to a word that I said either--complete & utter waste of time & NHS money, frankly..............).  Also to do with rising price of protein in the  80 s so government persuaded everyone to eat pasta and rice to fill them up (incl those with diabetes--who could not metabolise high cho contained therein) so they wouldn't feel deprived. Cannot believe that docs took all this on board. I do know that consultants who raised concerns were "retired" from NHS though. Lesson: find out what works best for you & stick to it. Think through the logic of new instructions re management and decide what is best for you as an individual. Seems that old wives tales re bread & potatoes being a dieters enemy held an element of truth after all. Irony is that the situation resulted in many being told "insulin makes you put on weight" (only if you have too much and eat too much--simple, isn't it) & overwight nurses  lecturing patients because they have gained a lb in wight over 6 months. Oh and statins: I was put on these only because my doc was paid to put me on them--my cholesteral went up on them--it was normal previously (!!??) (& I felt truely awful--muscular weekeness whilst teaching PE--not a good combination). I came off statins pretty quickly and went on to eat lots of high fat food (free from cho) and cholesterol reduced significantly. The body is clever--taking statins reduces cholesterol initially but body produces more to make up for shortfall statins produce so cholesteral rises over a period of time (you don't live longer--just feels like it)!!! Same with blood pressure meds --was surprised to find out my bp had risen so doc put me on meds to reduce it. Contracted bacterial  meningitus so spent time in hospital without meds for bp--upon discharge I was told that bp was too low & that I should see  GP. She didn't listen so doubled bp meds: RESULT--I nearly died because bp became too low. To pay GPs to prescribe certain types of meds to people who fall into certain categories is ridiculous--I nearly died because I was compliant!!!!!!!!!!!! Didn't mean to rant like this but one thing led to another--as it does. Type 1 for 54 years with no complications (except those inflicted by rigorous prescribing by gp of medicines NICE decided was in my best interest) !!!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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