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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IanD" data-source="post: 277583" data-attributes="member: 6186">Welcome Daisy, to the club no-one wants to join. Your reaction to diabetes diagnosis is perfectly normal. When I was diagnosed I panicked. I felt I had the disease that would kill me. That was partly because my Dr told me ALL the complications that diabetes could give - including the 25% PROBABILITY of a heart attack (in 10 years.) All that was 12 years ago. Now, at 73 I am very well & active. I play tennis & table tennis at club standard, sing with two choirs, play keyboard for my church. (Music was developed after diagnosis.) Screening tests show no heart or circulatory or diabetic complications now. Four years ago it was different. I had followed the Diabetes UK high carb diet & complications were setting in. A low carb diet, as recommended by many on this forum, has restored my health & strength. I can honestly say that with my present control, diabetes does not affect my quality of life.</blockquote>

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