Can I prove the Dr's wrong?

LucySW said:

Am a bit scared to raise the nightly dose for fear of my first hypo. I could test, of course ...

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Whilst waiting in the hospital diabetic clinic and browsing the diabetic uk magazine I read an advert for a night time hypo alarm. It cost around £70 and looked like a wrist watch. No idea how good it is, but maybe worth considering.... Hopefully someone here has one already and can advise how hood they are.

Dental hygienist today said my gums are now excellent, lovely healthy colour, no bleeding..... So much different from a year ago.... Whilst her advise on how to clean has obviously made a difference, I think THE main reason they are healthy is because my blood glucose levels are 'normal'

Another reason to add to my 3! Reasons for low blood sugar levels (which are:-

1). To retain my few remaining insulin making beta cells (high BG kills beta cells)
2). To stop frequent visits to the toilet (if I get up twice during the night I know my morning BG reading will be above 6, if I need not get up at all they will be below 5)
3). Minimise long term associated diabetes complications.
4) stronger head hair growth (I am starting to get a few hairs growing on my bald head patch!!!!)
5) better teeth gum disease control

smidge said:

...so I planned a finger of dark chocolate kit kat (7g carb) into my morning regime. It worked and I had my lowest HbA1cs during that period, but I doubt Bernstein would have recommended it!

Smidge

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I think Bernstein might well approve....He recommends eating a slice of bread or a blueberry muffin (13g? before shopping (walking) the malls for 3 hours..... Indeed I think he would approve anything that works for you, in keeping your BG levels at his advised levels.

Bill1963 said:

would like to get to 85kg.

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I am much the same .... Would like to get back to 85kg...... Try bullet proof coffee.... Around 500 calories...30g butter + 30g coconut oil rigorously mixed in with cup filter coffee. Nice taste, little protein and no carbs !!! If you can't mix rigorously then I add some double cream.

Hi bill,
How do you make a coconut cream shake?
What are the ingredients?
Sounds nice / good calories (for us wanting to put weight on)

My cholesterol levels have improved on a year ago. My GP said they were good a year ago, but better now.
A year ago (on diagnosis) my diet was a 'healthy!' low fat probably high carb diet, now it is low carb very high fat!

Pleasantly surprised by this weeks pre breakfast BG levels, my average this week is 4.5, just below Dr bernstein target of 4.6. A few weeks back I was around 5 and showing an upward trend...... Time will tell.

Could my beta cells be regrowing. This weeks average pre breakfast BG levels are 4.3, which has brought my 4 week average down to 4.6. A definite downward trend. I don't know why they are lower, no dietary or exercise change.

I hope I can keep them this low.... Time will tell....

My weight has been very stable over the last 8 weeks..... So not weight in my case, but could well be in yours.

Ian DP said:

Could my beta cells be regrowing. This weeks average pre breakfast BG levels are 4.3

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I thought it was too good to be true..... My pre breakfast BG levels are back around the 5.0 levels.
My 4.3 pre breakfast average lasted two weeks, my highest reading during that time was a 4.9 2 hours after dinner.
Two weeks..... It all ended when I opened up a fresh tub of testing strips. One pot of 50 lasts me around two weeks..... Yep, when I count back all tests during that time they were (on average) at least 0.5 lower than at any time over the previous 12 weeks, which had been very constant..... Looking back 13 weeks ago I had another two week 'low' spell, again around 0.5 lower than before and after weeks. Maybe that too was a 'low' batch of test strips.

If I take out these two, 2 week low readings, my BG readings since being on the Bernstein solution have been very consistent / flat. I will be very happy if they stay that way.

Still no insulin or meds. The Bernstein solution is certainly working for me. I had been LCHF before I started the Bernstein solution. The main change I had to make was to cut out all fruit and reduce to just a single small tomatoe in any meal. Net result, a lowering of my BG level readings by around 1.0 (and I have finally got over the fruit craving, not missing it at all now... History, just like bread, pasta, rice, potatoes etc.).

Another month and no change in my average BG meter reading and my weight is stable.
Pre breakfast levels are averaging just below 5 and 2hr after eating averaging just over 5.
Now 5 months of very consistently normal BG levels. Dr Bernstein's solution is definitely working for me, for now.
I also feel that I must have my auto immune system under control, in that it would seem that my beta cells are no longer degenerating. Which kind of says, despite what they say, T1 onset can be avoided..... In that had I been LCHF a couple of years ago I am 100% sure I would not be diabetic now.

But I now seem to have a thyroid problem
As I have been on a very low carb very high fat diet I asked my GP to do a blood medical check; Iron, liver, kidney, bone, cholesterol all fine but my my thyroid TSH is 6.89 (normal range 0.25-5.0). My PHO is normal. He wants to do another test in 3 months time, to see if it is improving or worsening.