Hi I have had t1 for the best part of 37 yrs and on a pump. I also suffer retinopathy and have had 2 vitrectomies (3-4 yrs ago) one in each eye.
To help protect them, I take bilberry, grape seed, pine bark and lutein extracts. Whether these work in unknown but my eyes are stable so I'm happy.
However I do have thickening on the wall and will probably require lucentis injections soon ish.
To try to protect them further (and believe me you'd try anything to help) I got interested in chinese herbal remedies and on walking past a chinese herbs shop I popped in and after a quick consultation was advised I should try jiang tang green tea to remove heat and zhi bai di huang wan pills to restore yin to my liver and help stabilise bg's...so I bought some.
By the way if at this point you are likely to come on here and belittle or poo poo this - I am not looking for your input....
Since trying these, around 6 hrs after taking the pills my bgs are unexpectedly high - anything from 13 - 18mmol. Its not typically like this. I wonder whether anyone else has followed this path and had odd results? these little tablets are supposed to cleanse the liver and restoe yin!
I went back into the same shop today and queried this and the response was that the pills should help to bring down bgs.....I think it would have helped if I spoke chinese as their english was causing a lack of understanding!!
Anyways, anyone used CTM with any success or similarly found it to cause more problems thatn its worth??
thanks in advance.
paul
To help protect them, I take bilberry, grape seed, pine bark and lutein extracts. Whether these work in unknown but my eyes are stable so I'm happy.
However I do have thickening on the wall and will probably require lucentis injections soon ish.
To try to protect them further (and believe me you'd try anything to help) I got interested in chinese herbal remedies and on walking past a chinese herbs shop I popped in and after a quick consultation was advised I should try jiang tang green tea to remove heat and zhi bai di huang wan pills to restore yin to my liver and help stabilise bg's...so I bought some.
By the way if at this point you are likely to come on here and belittle or poo poo this - I am not looking for your input....
Since trying these, around 6 hrs after taking the pills my bgs are unexpectedly high - anything from 13 - 18mmol. Its not typically like this. I wonder whether anyone else has followed this path and had odd results? these little tablets are supposed to cleanse the liver and restoe yin!
I went back into the same shop today and queried this and the response was that the pills should help to bring down bgs.....I think it would have helped if I spoke chinese as their english was causing a lack of understanding!!
Anyways, anyone used CTM with any success or similarly found it to cause more problems thatn its worth??
thanks in advance.
paul
