It’s not a one way street

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.

 

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.

 

Lol!