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<blockquote data-quote="anniep" data-source="post: 176274" data-attributes="member: 27533"><p><strong>Re: Diagnosed "Borderline" Type 2, and now.. er.. just "Type</strong></p><p></p><p>How was I diagnosed - well my mother is diabetic (T1 or T2 unknown) but my brother is T2, my uncles are and several females in the family had gestational diabetes.</p><p></p><p>Knowing all of this I went looking for it and asked my doctor for a blood test, I had one every year after that and so knew the moment that I tipped into pre-diabetic. Then at one test the doc said if you don't get do something, you are going to be diabetic soon and gave me one month to bring down my BG and weight, I read up in diabetes and saw the very different advices given. MY brother was managing his diabetes successfully so I asked him how he was doing it. </p><p></p><p>He lives in Australia and had been told to test and keep carbs below 100gm a day spread over the day, so I followed the advice given to him and bought a meter and cut the carbs down. And I was also used to seeing my insulin dependent mother test all the time so it seemed a natural thing to do.</p><p></p><p>When he saw how this was working my doctor was happy to prescribe the strips. </p><p></p><p>Moving on a few years, my life changed we moved around the country and I got complaisant I suppose, and things went to pot. I had had to go to my new doctor and tell them I was pre- diabetic and ask for a blood test, and of course it was very soon found to be now diabetic. I spoke to the practice nurse about low carbing and was told in no uncertain terms not too, she sent me to the dietician who told me I MUST not low carb. </p><p></p><p>I followed their way and put on more and more weight, got hungrier and hungrier, and my BG went higher and higher.</p><p></p><p>I joined this forum and with the support gained here I gained the courage to stand up to the HCP's and low carb and argue for strips which I was reluctantly given. My Hba1c came down from 7.4 to </p><p>6.00. I only did this by testing, testing, testing I found out that the 'healthy foods' they were insisting that I eat were actually raising my BG significantly. </p><p></p><p>SO no I don’t think I could have done it without strips as I would never have realised what was causing the problems if I hadn't seen them on the meter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="anniep, post: 176274, member: 27533"] [b]Re: Diagnosed "Borderline" Type 2, and now.. er.. just "Type[/b] How was I diagnosed - well my mother is diabetic (T1 or T2 unknown) but my brother is T2, my uncles are and several females in the family had gestational diabetes. Knowing all of this I went looking for it and asked my doctor for a blood test, I had one every year after that and so knew the moment that I tipped into pre-diabetic. Then at one test the doc said if you don't get do something, you are going to be diabetic soon and gave me one month to bring down my BG and weight, I read up in diabetes and saw the very different advices given. MY brother was managing his diabetes successfully so I asked him how he was doing it. He lives in Australia and had been told to test and keep carbs below 100gm a day spread over the day, so I followed the advice given to him and bought a meter and cut the carbs down. And I was also used to seeing my insulin dependent mother test all the time so it seemed a natural thing to do. When he saw how this was working my doctor was happy to prescribe the strips. Moving on a few years, my life changed we moved around the country and I got complaisant I suppose, and things went to pot. I had had to go to my new doctor and tell them I was pre- diabetic and ask for a blood test, and of course it was very soon found to be now diabetic. I spoke to the practice nurse about low carbing and was told in no uncertain terms not too, she sent me to the dietician who told me I MUST not low carb. I followed their way and put on more and more weight, got hungrier and hungrier, and my BG went higher and higher. I joined this forum and with the support gained here I gained the courage to stand up to the HCP's and low carb and argue for strips which I was reluctantly given. My Hba1c came down from 7.4 to 6.00. I only did this by testing, testing, testing I found out that the 'healthy foods' they were insisting that I eat were actually raising my BG significantly. SO no I don’t think I could have done it without strips as I would never have realised what was causing the problems if I hadn't seen them on the meter. [/QUOTE]
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