chaylabling
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Hello and welcome.
Short answer - No, it is not inevitable at all. You can control this with the medication you have and a low/reduced carb diet and lose that excess weight. It is even possible to reduce the medication you are already on, as evidenced by lots of people on this forum. It may be your pancreas has suffered too much and may deteriorate, but not inevitable.
Sadly, the NHS hasn't caught up yet with the low carb way of controlling things, so many doctors and nurses here will disagree with it as they are just following their given guidelines.
thank you, I will give it my best effort. Is it constantly high readings that show if the pancreas has suffered too much and deteriorates?
Hi, Sorry to hear of your concerns. I have been diagnosed as Type 2 diabetic for about 10 years and my levels were slowly creeping up despite Metformin,trying harder with diet, and going on to Gliklazide. I hated this one! I was feeling very tired after meals and very hungry all of the time. I begged to go on Insulin and was allowed to have Humulin M3 which is a 30/70 mix of fast/slow acting insulin. It gave me my life back and I am now happily jabbing away morning and evening. My last Hba1c was 7.4. It seems that I have insulin resistance. I hope you don't have to go down this route but insulin was the best thing since sliced bread for me!! My advice is to try hard with the LCHF diet and don't worry about the future medications.
Hi, Sorry to hear of your concerns. I have been diagnosed as Type 2 diabetic for about 10 years and my levels were slowly creeping up despite Metformin,trying harder with diet, and going on to Gliklazide. I hated this one! I was feeling very tired after meals and very hungry all of the time. I begged to go on Insulin and was allowed to have Humulin M3 which is a 30/70 mix of fast/slow acting insulin. It gave me my life back and I am now happily jabbing away morning and evening. My last Hba1c was 7.4. It seems that I have insulin resistance. I hope you don't have to go down this route but insulin was the best thing since sliced bread for me!! My advice is to try hard with the LCHF diet and don't worry about the future medications.
No one can tell you that you need insulin, but your blood testing meter can. The first thing to do is to start taking the steps that help out your pancreas, which will soon show if it can cope. The main aim here is to reduce your insulin resistance. One of the easiest ways to do this is with exercise. If you do prolonged regular exercise (cycling, yoga, going to the gym, whatever works for you), your body will very quickly increase its insulin sensitivity. This means your pancreas needs to produce less insulin to get the same results, so it is not being so overworked. If you have enough insulin producing cells left, they will stop burning out from too much demand on them, which may well mean you can avoid insulin.
The other thing to try is the low carb diet that is becoming more and more widely accepted (but is still controversial to some). Carbohydrate and sugar put a big demand on your pancreas. You need insulin to counteract it, and you need it quickly. If you are consuming loads of carbs, your pancreas will again get overworked, and the insulin producing cells will continue to burn out. However, if you base your diet on protein and fat, (as well as plenty of vegetables e.g. Green leaf salad, bell peppers), you can put yourself in a much better position. The body can convert protein into glucose through a process called gluconeogenesis. It's a less efficient method, and it is a much slower process. Therefore, your pancreas will need to produce less insulin, and can do it more slowly.
if you take all these steps and your blood sugars are still going high all the time, it is highly likely you will require insulin. However, if your blood sugar readings are normal, I don't think there would be any reason for you to inject.
Hello and welcome.
Short answer - No, it is not inevitable at all. You can control this with the medication you have and a low/reduced carb diet and lose that excess weight. It is even possible to reduce the medication you are already on, as evidenced by lots of people on this forum. It may be your pancreas has suffered too much and may deteriorate, but not inevitable.
Sadly, the NHS hasn't caught up yet with the low carb way of controlling things, so many doctors and nurses here will disagree with it as they are just following their given guidelines.
This is tragically what happens when the official guidelines don't work because of the carb recommendation, and thousands of T2s fail to manage their blood glucose as a result. The inevitability of decline, more meds and eventually insulin becomes ingrained in the minds of most GPs and DNs. If it wasn't so tragic it would be a joke.
It seems your Spanish doctors were right, your UK were not!
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