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<blockquote data-quote="LooperCat" data-source="post: 2158446" data-attributes="member: 468055"><p>Regardless of type, can you count it as either if you can’t eat a diet that includes what is commonly regarded as a “normal” amount of carbohydrate without you blood sugars going out of a healthy range? I’d say not. If you can’t eat carbohydrate without getting high BG then you still have diabetes. </p><p></p><p>Food is medicine;</p><p>Medicine is medicine;</p><p>Insulin is medicine.</p><p></p><p>If you have to adjust any of these things out of line with what you did before diagnosis, then in my opinion you still have diabetes. </p><p></p><p>I went to my consultant on Friday to get a Dexcom, and she was concerned about my low Hba1c of 35, so I showed her this 3 month average chart that covered that period (to assuage her worries of too many hypos) and she actually said “you’ve cured your diabetes!” - to which I replied, sadly not but I do work very hard and make a lot of food sacrifices to manage it. </p><p></p><p>Non-diabetic levels do not mean you are cured of diabetes - just that you’re managing the condition (of whatever type) with food and/or medication. If you can’t eat whatever you want without your levels going silly, you’re still diabetic. Well managed isn’t cured or reversed. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]36411[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LooperCat, post: 2158446, member: 468055"] Regardless of type, can you count it as either if you can’t eat a diet that includes what is commonly regarded as a “normal” amount of carbohydrate without you blood sugars going out of a healthy range? I’d say not. If you can’t eat carbohydrate without getting high BG then you still have diabetes. Food is medicine; Medicine is medicine; Insulin is medicine. If you have to adjust any of these things out of line with what you did before diagnosis, then in my opinion you still have diabetes. I went to my consultant on Friday to get a Dexcom, and she was concerned about my low Hba1c of 35, so I showed her this 3 month average chart that covered that period (to assuage her worries of too many hypos) and she actually said “you’ve cured your diabetes!” - to which I replied, sadly not but I do work very hard and make a lot of food sacrifices to manage it. Non-diabetic levels do not mean you are cured of diabetes - just that you’re managing the condition (of whatever type) with food and/or medication. If you can’t eat whatever you want without your levels going silly, you’re still diabetic. Well managed isn’t cured or reversed. [ATTACH=full]36411[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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