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I'm amazed at the cultish fervour on here for LCHF. I’ve never seen anything about the risks or anyone saying it doesn’t work, might be dangerous for some people? So is this purely a beginners forum?
That’s because LCHF works. Do you have something that works better?
I have been on reduced carb, with balancing fats, for 5 years now. I'm now additionally gluten-free, but this isn't diabetes related. My stats go something like this:
T2 since October 2013. No medication.
HbA1c:
October 13: 73 or 8.8% (How did that happen?)
February 14: 37 or 5.5%
May 14: 34 or 5.3%
August 14: 32 or 5.1%
November 14: 33 or 5.1%
May 15: 31 or 5.0%
October 15: 33 or 5.1%
September 16: 31 or 5.0%
November 17: 33 or 5.1%
March 18: A "bonus", unexpected test due to other bloods - 30 or 4.9%. I joined the 4s club! I hadn't expected a reduction, having got used to toggling 33<>31<>33<>31 for the last 3 years, literally.
Work in progress, but GP has taken me off the Diabetes Register.
It seems to work for me. All medical markers improved from the point of diagnosis. I'm just about due an annual A1c test, but I did a home A1cNow test about 4 weeks ago, prior to some extended travel, and it came in at 4.8%. I usually find those to be +/-0.1% pf my lab results.
Could we help you with anything in particular?
Edited to add that this forum supports whatever works for any given individual, it's just that quite a few folks, particularly T2s, have found reducing carbs to be helpful to them.
@Roseanne01
I empathise with your caution, and I am being cautious too. For a few years I have been watching my trends and everything seems to be narrowing up in such a way that I feel I am between a rock and a hard place with food. Something I wanted to try and discuss with my GP and did attempt to but as ever time was limited.
I have embarked upon a lower carb higher fat approach, not a full blown keto. It’s early yet but there are signs that it is helping.
I do think that for many that the LCHF approach has been a solution or a way out from the difficulties presented by T2 diabetes, that they otherwise would not have had.
I forgot to add that I had been worried about increasing my blood pressure with a lower carb higher fat approach as my blood pressure is already high, but it actually appears to be dropping instead.I agree. It was really unusual in the nineties to be diagnosed so young and I do wonder if I have something else going on as everything I have has an autoimmune component. I’m used to controlling stuff but now nothing seems to work. About to ditch trulicity because after three months I still feels sick and really fatigued. Heart failure makes that an issue as well. Ta.
I'm amazed at the cultish fervour on here for LCHF. I’ve never seen anything about the risks or anyone saying it doesn’t work, might be dangerous for some people? So is this purely a beginners forum?
It’s actually dangerous if you have kidney disease. Just saying this to see if others like me just drop out because everyone is focused on a single solution. I’ve been Type 2 for over thirty years and plant based worked for me for about fifteen years. But then the carbs caught up, I developed a range of chronic problems and high blood pressure caused kidney failure (not diabetes). Mostly through a very high stress work environment, I’d love a dietary solution but I can’t find one that’s low carb (which I am because I can’t tolerate it, even tomato raises my bsl), low fat because I have heart failure, and low protein because of kidney disease. And like most on here the only advice from dietitians is the standard same old same old. And from endo - here’s a wonderful new med to make you sicker and tireder. Or n the case of insulin -fatter.
Have you read any of Dr Jason Fung's work? He's a nephrologist he might have some insights for you.It’s actually dangerous if you have kidney disease.
Have you been checked for haemochromatosis?I agree. It was really unusual in the nineties to be diagnosed so young and I do wonder if I have something else going on as everything I have has an autoimmune component. I’m used to controlling stuff but now nothing seems to work. About to ditch trulicity because after three months I still feels sick and really fatigued. Heart failure makes that an issue as well. Ta.
I was diagnosed in 2012 and have been diet only apart from a couple of months when my hba1c rose quickly and I was prescribed sitogliptin (sp) for a while until we realised it was the statins that has caused the rise. I don’t think it is a cult at all but people learning what foods they maybe able to or should not eat. Within my own family there are various allergies including fish, dairy, nuts, eggs etc and, at one stage, there were 3 cealiacs including my aunt and brother - preparing foods for a family get together can be a nightmare!I'm amazed at the cultish fervour on here for LCHF. I’ve never seen anything about the risks or anyone saying it doesn’t work, might be dangerous for some people? So is this purely a beginners forum?