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Does anyone been in remission.

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south711

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France
Type of diabetes
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being a diabetic and finding restrictions.to life style. people who do not understand the problems one has. not being able to afford to come back to uk for holidays as often, quite expensive. miss some foods that the French do not do. but can live with that French drivers. who love to tail gate. and they love to drive over the white line. in rural areas they are a pain. but get use to it. does put the wind up you. But driving in the UK found that drivers want to get as close as they can. and the traffic. it took me 25 minutes to get to friends house which was less then a mile away. due to traffic.
I often wonder if anyone out there has been in remission. possibly wrong. but can diabetics have remission.????
 
Hi
I think you will find a lot of so called cures, but I really believe that it is not a curable disease,
A lot of things like watching diet, Low Carb, exercise all go a long way on keeping the problem areas away, but I think you have to live with it.
I see it as a challenge to see how controlled I can be in keeping Blood Sugar and HbA1c levels as low as possible
 
Let's start by defining "remission". Wikipedia states,
  • Remission (medicine), the state of absence of disease activity in patients with a chronic illness, with the possibility of return of disease activity
I don't believe this is currently possible for Type 1, but it definitely is for T2. James now has "absence of disease", that is HbA1c's in the mid to low 30's, non-diabetic fasting, pre and post prandial readings and no symptoms, save dealing with some historic damage. His specialist diabetic consultant said that he did not consider him to be diabetic. The GP used the word "remission". This has been achieved through weight loss, exercise and a low carb diet. He is fully aware that a return to a diabetic state would happen, should he eat put on weight again.
Sally
 
From all that I've read, curing diabetes is not possible ( mostly ). The only way ( correct me if I'm wrong ) is to some how grow new beta cells that are dead or wake up the worn out or dying ones. For early Type 2, lose weight, exercise, cut back on carbs and hope your high sugar levels and over production have not worn out too many beta cells.

But, with type 2, if you gain weight stop exercising you 'relapse' and even obese people without diabetes don't have the symptoms even with over eating.

I think the gastric bypass surgery and Newcastle study are not so much cures as they are remission of the disease and points out further the underlying complexities of diabetes that confounds researchers in the field.

I agree that controlling ones BG is a challenge, but sometimes like any day-to-day challenge it gets tiresome.


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yes, I should have said the newcastle was a select T2 group and anything with the word 'cure' attached to it will normally finish up costing you a lot of money for zip
to say a T2 is 'not showing symptoms/remission' you really need an OGTT to confirm. a lot through diet will have good BG but will fail an OGTT [oral glucose tolerance test]
 
Jack412, I was surprised when my GP would not order what we call a Glucose Tolerance test. He said that it shows nothing and is 'old school'.

If ever I'm feeling hubris about my BG control, I just give myself the home made version - 100g of dex4 tabs dissolved in water after fasting for 12 hours and then measure BG every 1/2 hour for 3 or 4 hours. Ouch, I'm not cured!!!!!


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Not wishing to be picky but ……
the OP did ask about remission, not cure. They are different things. Remission of T2 is, in my view, possible. Remission has a possibility of return.
Sally
 
isn't it 75g glucose?
it's time and money to run a GTT [there are 2 types, oral and a sugar injection]
a1c is the seen as the gun test, a title I don't think it deserves from what I have read that affects it.
to me the GTT is the gun test
 
Yes according to my GP I am no longer diabetic after having a 'normal' Hba1c result and fasting blood test.
I was diagnosed 18 months ago and confess that I got quite obsessive about diet and exercise.
I am doubtful about his latest diagnosis though, as after allowing myself to lapse slightly into old eating habits the tell tale signs of fatigue and vision problems seem to be returning.
Thanks for posting your question, as I think it's the cue I needed to start testing again.
 
jack412 said:
isn't it 75g glucose?
it's time and money to run a GTT [there are 2 types, oral and a sugar injection]
a1c is the seen as the gun test, a title I don't think it deserves from what I have read that affects it.
to me the GTT is the gun test
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I've read it ranges from 75g to 300g - which seems high. I choose 100g because it was a round number and the last number I read. I agree the A1c can mask really highs and lows and some people don't have the 3-months long lived hemoglobin. I've recently read that it really is more like a 2-week average - not sure here.

But to me I agree the GTT sure is the acid test for remission / cure. controversy


Sent from Runner2009 Burt
 
HI, note you mention different words that are new. what are they : A1c, GTT, T2 ,HBac1, OGTT sorry about this but I have only been diagnose for just over a year.
 
OGTT oral glucose tolerance test
HBac1/a1c blood glucose test that averages the last 3 mths
T2/T2D type 2 diabetes

if there is anything you don't recognise, just put it into google along with the word diabetes and it should give you an answer
 
many thanks
 
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