Re: is diabetes reversable
Viv's right. To re-inforce, once you have diabetes, you can control your blood sugar, through medication or diet, to a non-diabetic level, but this is NOT reversing it, which implies curing it. It only stays at non-diabetic levels while you stay on the medication or diet. As soon as you revert to a normal "non-diabetic" diet, or stop the meds, your blood sugars would rise again. There is some debate about ultra-low calorie diets for a period reversing diabetes, and some members on this forum are trying it, but the jury's still out on that. Their is also a level of type 2 diabetes called "Pre-diabetes", which used to be called borderline diabetes. At this level, it is possible, with life style and diet changes, to revert to a non-diabetic state, but it is likely that such a person could go back to diabetic very easily if they slacken and go back to the diet they were on - in other words, they will always be vulnerable. Who knows, Pancreas transplants may become common, or a magic pill discovered, but at the moment, diabetic means diabetic, no going back. Unless of course our ultra low cal friends prove otherwise!