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<blockquote data-quote="Kezzer4321" data-source="post: 707165" data-attributes="member: 124303"><p>To be honest I wasn't given any guidelines. I was given a bad photocopy about diabetes and a loan of an NHS booklet about the complications of diabetes. I was told the medication would lower my BS and that I should try and loose weight by eating to the eat well plate. The dietician I saw, told me to buy everything low fat, and that a third of every meal should be carbs.more if I could manage it. I was told I didn't have to cut out sugar - that I could eat biscuits cakes etc in moderation... I have never been offered any kind of course and no other information has ever been provided to me by my doctors. I was put straight on to metformin straight away.</p><p></p><p>However my sister who was diagnosed after me and lives in a different area had completely different treatment. Her doctor has sent her and her husband on several courses and her doctors gave her 6 months to try to manage her diabetes with diet and exercise alone. They had a support group which my sister and sometimes her husband attended. Where people talked about their diabetes, issues and successes - and where they were given advice on what to eat and how to exercise. They were also encouraged to buddy up on the exercise for motivation. Although LCHF wasn't particularly recommended - those that were successful in lowing their BS, seemed to drift this way and therefore enouraged the other newer members to do so.</p><p></p><p>Therefore until the difference in treatment available to people based on where you live is rectified, it is no wonder that some people, myself included at the time, don't take diabetes as serious, or don't understand the implication of badly managed diabetes. I know I didn't. It was only when I saw the liver specialist, who was blunt with the truth and I hit rock bottom, did I seek alternative help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kezzer4321, post: 707165, member: 124303"] To be honest I wasn't given any guidelines. I was given a bad photocopy about diabetes and a loan of an NHS booklet about the complications of diabetes. I was told the medication would lower my BS and that I should try and loose weight by eating to the eat well plate. The dietician I saw, told me to buy everything low fat, and that a third of every meal should be carbs.more if I could manage it. I was told I didn't have to cut out sugar - that I could eat biscuits cakes etc in moderation... I have never been offered any kind of course and no other information has ever been provided to me by my doctors. I was put straight on to metformin straight away. However my sister who was diagnosed after me and lives in a different area had completely different treatment. Her doctor has sent her and her husband on several courses and her doctors gave her 6 months to try to manage her diabetes with diet and exercise alone. They had a support group which my sister and sometimes her husband attended. Where people talked about their diabetes, issues and successes - and where they were given advice on what to eat and how to exercise. They were also encouraged to buddy up on the exercise for motivation. Although LCHF wasn't particularly recommended - those that were successful in lowing their BS, seemed to drift this way and therefore enouraged the other newer members to do so. Therefore until the difference in treatment available to people based on where you live is rectified, it is no wonder that some people, myself included at the time, don't take diabetes as serious, or don't understand the implication of badly managed diabetes. I know I didn't. It was only when I saw the liver specialist, who was blunt with the truth and I hit rock bottom, did I seek alternative help. [/QUOTE]
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