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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2449817" data-attributes="member: 517579">I think you've been lucky. Having that diagnosis label means a lot of negative things - your life insurance premiums go up, many insurers won't touch you, everything gets interpreted as "it's because you're diabetic",  that sort of thing. As the (mistaken) belief is that diabetes is progressive and there is no cure, many organizations and institutions will treat you accordingly even if you've returned to normal blood glucose levels and are officially in remission. I speak from experience. This is a sort of summary of my first year. It might be of some use. <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog/kennya.517579/" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog/kennya.517579/</a>If you're worried about missing out on treatment, don't. I've never had any "treatment" from the NHS. Monitoring certainly, lots of that - feet, eyes etc, which I guess is intended to be a record of  my "inevitable progression" but absolutely nothing that helped me.  This forum has been 99% of my support and advice in the last two years.The good news is that if you have no symptoms now, reducing your blood glucose to normal levels gives you a much better chance of never developing any.  And a low carb diet can do that in a matter of weeks.</blockquote>

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