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louiseb

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without going into too much detail I had an appointment with my diabetic specailist gp to change my meds as metformin was has bad side affects, the doctor gave me saxagliptin 5mg 1 per day.
anyway this is the bit that confused me he said if I lost 2 stone in weight im 2 stone overweight :oops: that my diabetes would dissapear and i wouldnt need medication.
I didnt think it was possible to cure diabetes I thought i could control it well by a combination of diet and excercise and weight loss etc, but believed that if i returned my high carb diet my diabetes would be out of control again. :?
 
I think it could be quite dangerous, if not foolhardy , to make a sweeping statement as the one your Doc has made !! We are all very different , for myself I embarked on a lowering of carb regime alongside more exericising in the form of walking, lots of it ! Please dont be embarrassed at being 2 stones overweight , I was five stones overweight :oops: I have taken 18 months to lose the weight and get fitter than I have been for a long time, my nurse describes it thus : You have made diabetes go away, for now , but it is waiting in the wings for you to slip back into a sedentary lifestyle and previously high carb diet and then back it will come, centre stage and hogging the limelight :roll:
 
Your Diabetes might regress and the symptoms may well disappear.....but you are perfectly correct in that you will still be a Diabetic.......just a well controlled one. Go back to eating high carbs and it will all go 'pear shaped.' :(

At present apart from a Pancreas Transplant there is NO cure for Diabetes.....BUT, again go back to eating the wrong things afterwards and you may well develop Diabetes.
 
Hi Louise, loosing the extra weight you are carrying will have an affect on your insulin resistance and may well see you off medication but make no mistake you will still be diabetic and if you dont watch your diet your numbers will go up and if you put the weight back on your insulin resistance will increase to its current levels again.

Kate is right your diabetes will be waiting in the wings ready to return.

Which is why I always say lifestyle not diet, sadly diabetes is for life.
 
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