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Early warning for Type 2?

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Sounds great -- but too avant garge to actually be put in practice for everyone.
 
An interesting read Catherine but call me cynical :| But when so many people seem to ignore their diabetes when they get the diagnoses I wonder if a ten year warning would do any good at all.

My money would be that many people would just think, OK I'll do something about it tomorrow (the mañana syndrome).

Some would just think, Oh well diabetes isnt that bad I know 'so and so' has it and they look fine.

And the rest would probably just ignore the warning and forget about it till it was too late.

I'd love to be wrong but thats my opinion.
 
I think it's true that GPs give a warning to eat better, exercise and lose weight for a number of health reasons. But either people ignore it or there are some other causes (e.g. the type of meds, thyroid condition, emotional problems or even just diabetes in the first stages, aging, menopause, genetics, autoimmunice response to avirus, metabolic syndrome) that do not prevent the onset of diabetes. So losing weight, going to the Gym and eating well may be just a few of the preventative steps and not enough.
 
MMMMMMMMMM I would bulk buy test strips :lol: :lol:
 
Don't forget depression - the "sodom, for gomorrah we die" syndrome. If someone had told me 15 years ago that I was going to be diagnosed diabetic, I might well have said - great! How quickly will it kill me?

One size fits all sounds great, but doesn't work.

The biggest virtual chocolate egg in the world for the first person to place the quote! :lol:

Viv 8)
 
LOL - Black humour? Depressions may have physical effects and behavioural too? Oh boy -- diabetes is very complicated, but then so is depression vis a vis CAUSE.....:evil:
 
I got an early warning.

Sugar cravings were present from age of two, family members developing T2, 3 babies weighing over 10lbs each even though I was very slim, high fasting blood glucose for past 11 years, several GTTs near limits. I never doubted I would develop T2, but not only found it difficult to be motivated enough to drastically do something about my weight, I didn't have the knowledge of what would work (reducing carbs) till recently when I found this forum.

What did I do in that eleven years? Continued going to gym 3 times a week, and followed the high complex carb diet recommended, but I gained weight and succumbed to constant cravings and hunger. I was confused as to why I couldn't lose weight. Over the years, I had dropped soft drink, icecream, biscuits, cake etc from diet (but not choc) and increased fruit and veg and upped the exercise. I still didn't lose much weight, 100kg down to 95kg, but I do believe it has staved off T2 for quite a few years.
 
Finding the endocrinological or viral of whatever problem is tough; but i can time my onset of weight gain with the meds i took, and then almost overnight, with menopause. My dr. did not give me HRT and I don't know if that is neither here nor there. If I let the bg go too low i get something like a panic attack, which i have had since late teens, and the for which the medication also made me gain weight. A medical mess....
 
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