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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tannith" data-source="post: 2392132" data-attributes="member: 422465"><p>I did low cal 3+ years ago. I did very well on it but unfortunately stopped too soon. NHS scale of HBA1C seems too lenient to me. I thought I had reversed my T2 but someone on here told me that I was still at the top of the PreDiabetes scale and actually in the diabetic range on one scale. So I restarted the low cal diet literally immediately, - in the middle of that day! That was 4 months ago and though I am doing a really easy version of the diet (ie 1000 cals per day, real food) I have lost about another stone. More importantly, my latest 2 hour OGT test is down to 8.3 - near the bottom of the pre diabetic range -from 11.3+  (Diabetic range) at the start. OGT is a good measure of how well the beta cells are functioning, and at a specific point in time (rather than simply what your blood sugars have been over a period of 3 months). And my FBGs are down from the top of the prediabetic range to comfortably within the normal. I am not particularly anti drugs normally - I think they can have their uses. But there is no way I would try a newish drug if I were trying to conceive.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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