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<blockquote data-quote="borofergie" data-source="post: 206283" data-attributes="member: 33342"><p>Before I was diagnosed (3 months ago), I knew precisely three T2 diabetics, two of whom had legs amputated, one of of whom has severe retinopathy. T2 diabetics absolutely do suffer from diabetes related complications. This is not scaremongering, it's a medically established fact (and there are very few of those around when it comes to diabetes).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As a recently diagnosed diabetic, it seems to me that exactly the reverse is true. It's the people who don't listen to what they are told, and make informed decisions of their own, who are the ones that manage to keep their blood sugars under control.</p><p></p><p>If I'd listened to my GP, a disgraceful NHS dietician and tried to follow the advice given by the Diabetes.org.uk "eating well guide", then I'd be including a third of a plate full of starchy carbohydrates with every meal, and be at the start of a one way trip to the amputation clinic.</p><p></p><p>I'm lucky enough to be educated and web-savvy enough to have worked my own way through the minefield of bad advice, but in the early weeks my head was spinning.</p><p></p><p>There are certainly some people that will suffer the consequences of their own apathy about their condition, but I absolutely do not accept that every T2 diabetic that suffers complications, does so because they did not listen to advice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="borofergie, post: 206283, member: 33342"] Before I was diagnosed (3 months ago), I knew precisely three T2 diabetics, two of whom had legs amputated, one of of whom has severe retinopathy. T2 diabetics absolutely do suffer from diabetes related complications. This is not scaremongering, it's a medically established fact (and there are very few of those around when it comes to diabetes). As a recently diagnosed diabetic, it seems to me that exactly the reverse is true. It's the people who don't listen to what they are told, and make informed decisions of their own, who are the ones that manage to keep their blood sugars under control. If I'd listened to my GP, a disgraceful NHS dietician and tried to follow the advice given by the Diabetes.org.uk "eating well guide", then I'd be including a third of a plate full of starchy carbohydrates with every meal, and be at the start of a one way trip to the amputation clinic. I'm lucky enough to be educated and web-savvy enough to have worked my own way through the minefield of bad advice, but in the early weeks my head was spinning. There are certainly some people that will suffer the consequences of their own apathy about their condition, but I absolutely do not accept that every T2 diabetic that suffers complications, does so because they did not listen to advice. [/QUOTE]
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