And not for a very long time yet!!!
Me too thou. I'll only be quiet, in death. No one can really shut me up.
I must be saying something worth listening too. Even thou i often forget what I've said. Lately.
One of the comments I took exception to on another thread was telling me personally that diabetes is progressive (despite the fact that my HbA1cs don't seem to show this) . I feel for the person who told me this because they have been sold a lie. It doesn't have to be progressive. We have had T2's on here who have been on insulin for years and now don't need it because they followed the advice on here, whether that advice be LCHF, the ND diet or even the Mediterranean diet or Dr Moseley's. They are all mentioned on here and give folks a lot of options, unlike the standard NHS advice. I totally agree that people should be told their options and it's so wrong that the NHS doesn't always do this. That's why we're here on a free forum because the NHS that we all pay for doesn't always properly inform us. If the NHS was perfect we wouldn't need Dr Google.
It's great that we now know that diabetes isn't a progressive disease if we follow the advice here and dump the standard NHS advice.
After I got the diabetes in remission and reversed the diabetic retinopathy and macular oedema by following low carb and keto I had another appointment with the Eye Clinic. I was so looking forward to the appointment because my consultant had showed a lot of interest in how I had reversed the eye problems and I was feeling really proud of the way I had stuck 100% to low carb since my last eye clinic appointment.
The tests showed eyes still OK but my consultant wasn't there and I saw a different doctor who got quite angry with me. He said I was deluding myself because diabetes was a chronic progressive degenerative disease and I would just get worse and worse and there was nothing I could do to stop this progression. I tried to tell him about the research by Prof Taylor but that just made him more and more angry - especially when I reminded him that the tests they had just done showed my eyes were still OK.
I must admit that I was very shaken by the encounter. Then I realised that he was absolutely right. Diabetes is a progressive disease and can ultimately lead to blindness and foot amputations - if you follow the standard NHS advice. This was exactly what was happening to me before I discovered low carb and keto.
So I kept on with 20g carbs and eyes and foot still OK and no meds and no injected insulin. Possibly I was the first person he had seen who had come off the insulin and hopefully he wouldn't react in the same way now.
I have a wonderful DN who totally supports low carb. I now am completely in the care of my DN and no longer have to attend the Diabetes Clinic at the hospital. I couldn't ask for a more knowledgeable, supportive and kind Diabetes Nurse.
