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<blockquote data-quote="Krystyna23040" data-source="post: 1967268" data-attributes="member: 374421"><p>I agree that for me that the best part of keto is the absolute absence of any cravings for carbs. It does make it much easier to manage the diabetes and I am hopeful that I will eventually move from 'in remission' to 'diabetes reversed '. This for me is 'the long game'.</p><p></p><p>I do appreciate that it may be a very very long game as it was highly likely that I had undiagnosed diabetes for over 20 years. In 1990 we had a super nurse at work. I had some strange symptoms so she did a urine test for glucose. It was very high so she sent me straight to my GP. He was angry and said she didn't know what she was talking about and refused to do any tests and told me to go away and forget about it. He said that it was an overflow of glucose from my kidneys So nothing to worry about.</p><p></p><p>So no treatment until I was admitted to hospital in 2012 with an HbA1c of 125 and put straight on insulin. Started low carb in 2016 and then went keto. Off the insulin and no meds but blood sugars not absolutely normal yet.</p><p></p><p>Sorry it's taken me so long to get to the point. What I am trying to say is that for someone like me keto is vital if I want to stay off insulin. But if diabetes had been picked up in 1990 I would have not been so damaged and there may not have been a need to go keto to reverse the diabetes.</p><p></p><p>So the 'long game'' might have involved eating more carbs than I can now. So low carb would have sorted it. Who knows - maybe by then only keto would have sorted it. Either way the meter is a superb tool to help unravel what is going on.</p><p>Edited to say - hope this rambling post makes sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Krystyna23040, post: 1967268, member: 374421"] I agree that for me that the best part of keto is the absolute absence of any cravings for carbs. It does make it much easier to manage the diabetes and I am hopeful that I will eventually move from 'in remission' to 'diabetes reversed '. This for me is 'the long game'. I do appreciate that it may be a very very long game as it was highly likely that I had undiagnosed diabetes for over 20 years. In 1990 we had a super nurse at work. I had some strange symptoms so she did a urine test for glucose. It was very high so she sent me straight to my GP. He was angry and said she didn't know what she was talking about and refused to do any tests and told me to go away and forget about it. He said that it was an overflow of glucose from my kidneys So nothing to worry about. So no treatment until I was admitted to hospital in 2012 with an HbA1c of 125 and put straight on insulin. Started low carb in 2016 and then went keto. Off the insulin and no meds but blood sugars not absolutely normal yet. Sorry it's taken me so long to get to the point. What I am trying to say is that for someone like me keto is vital if I want to stay off insulin. But if diabetes had been picked up in 1990 I would have not been so damaged and there may not have been a need to go keto to reverse the diabetes. So the 'long game'' might have involved eating more carbs than I can now. So low carb would have sorted it. Who knows - maybe by then only keto would have sorted it. Either way the meter is a superb tool to help unravel what is going on. Edited to say - hope this rambling post makes sense. [/QUOTE]
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