Been a while since I posted, been so busy with life and all that, but I thought I’d share this for all the people who get despondent about it all. So on the 23rd of Jan, 2021 I started to feel terrible, like all people I assumed it was COVID. When I started to have trouble breathing, we called an ambulance. It was a DKA, my diabetes was wildly out of control. I was in resus for several hours (where the words “possible multiple organ failure” were mentioned when they thought I was out of it), a week on a specialist ward, and moved on to insulin. Fast forward. It’s 25th of Feb (13 months later) I’ve lost just shy of 10 stone, I’ve gone from 24 Lantus & 6 \7 NovoRapid with every meal to just 12 Lantus and no NovoRapid. And I have my diabetic review. Numbers are normal. As in normal human non-diabetic range, if anything slightly lower end of that range. And now they are looking at taking me off the Lantus. No more daily injections… This may look like a “look at me!” Post, but I have the willpower of a piece of lettuce. This is a “if I can do it, anyone can” post and if it gives even one person a bit of hope, it was worth all the tapping away on my phone.
Sounds like you had a very scary experience in hospital a year ago but you used the experience to turn your health around and take control. Congratulations on reaching safer shores. A 10 stone weight loss too wow!
That's a terrific result and all credit to you - you found out what needed doing and you did it! Be proud. You made your luck, you created your success, and you are a great inspiration to others as well.
I did what all the docs reckon you should do, eat healthily and exercise (who’da thunk being healthier makes you healthy? ) I’m on a carb and calorie controlled diet, but not keto, and not starvation levels of calories (about 1500 Cals and 100 carbs a day but I vary al little each side of that and some times have a calorie cheat day, but never a carb cheat day). I exercise 1 hour daily in 2 1/2 hour stints, one after lunch and one after diner to take edge of any possible BG spikes. That’s about it.
Love that last part of exercise after eating, I think of it as coverage, which makes so much sense and it technically proven to lower bg.