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<blockquote data-quote="shadwell" data-source="post: 22384" data-attributes="member: 7935"><p><strong>Re: Success stories</strong></p><p></p><p>I was diagnosed with Type 2 just over 2 years ago at a routine new patient check up with the doctor. Overall, my surgery is great with a very proactive diabetes care team and a brilliant and open-minded diabetic nurse who I cannot praise highly enough. However, the GP I have to see who is the only diabetes specialist is not so good, very traditional and old-fashioned. On the day I was diagnosed, the diabetic nurse was on holiday and so I saw the doctor who told me that I had to eat 14 portions of carbs a day. My stats at diagnosis were BG 23, cholesterol 9.4, triglycerides 5.9 and weight 107 kgs. Prescribed 1000mg Metformin, 2mg Glimepiride and 40mg Simvastatin. I duly went away and followed the GP's advice and spent 3 months feeling iller and iller. I put on another 8kgs and at my follow up 3 months later my HbA1C was 9.7, cholesterol 9.1, triglycerides 5.9 and weight 115kgs. I also suffered crippling pains in my hands so bad that I had to soak them in hot water several times a day to stop them cramping completely. As I was doing so badly, I again had to see the GP who told me off for gaining weight, told me to eat more carbs and increased my medication to 2000mg Metformin, 6mg Glimepiride and 60mg Simvastatins. Went home feeling completely depressed and feeling like death. At this point I decided to do some research and found out about low carbing and the side effects that statins can have. I made an appointment to see the diabetic nurse who encouraged me to take up a low carb diet and took me off the statins. Within a few weeks, I was feeling much better and had stopped having the hand cramps. I have low carbed ever since with the support of my diabetic nurse and have never felt better. I have gone from a dress size 28 to a size 14 and my last stats were HbA1C 5.2, cholesterol 4.8, triglycerides 1.2. My nurse has told me off the record that she believes whole-heartedly in low carbing having seen positive results in many patients but is constricted by the NHS guidelines. I would not hesitate to recommend giving low carb a try.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shadwell, post: 22384, member: 7935"] [b]Re: Success stories[/b] I was diagnosed with Type 2 just over 2 years ago at a routine new patient check up with the doctor. Overall, my surgery is great with a very proactive diabetes care team and a brilliant and open-minded diabetic nurse who I cannot praise highly enough. However, the GP I have to see who is the only diabetes specialist is not so good, very traditional and old-fashioned. On the day I was diagnosed, the diabetic nurse was on holiday and so I saw the doctor who told me that I had to eat 14 portions of carbs a day. My stats at diagnosis were BG 23, cholesterol 9.4, triglycerides 5.9 and weight 107 kgs. Prescribed 1000mg Metformin, 2mg Glimepiride and 40mg Simvastatin. I duly went away and followed the GP's advice and spent 3 months feeling iller and iller. I put on another 8kgs and at my follow up 3 months later my HbA1C was 9.7, cholesterol 9.1, triglycerides 5.9 and weight 115kgs. I also suffered crippling pains in my hands so bad that I had to soak them in hot water several times a day to stop them cramping completely. As I was doing so badly, I again had to see the GP who told me off for gaining weight, told me to eat more carbs and increased my medication to 2000mg Metformin, 6mg Glimepiride and 60mg Simvastatins. Went home feeling completely depressed and feeling like death. At this point I decided to do some research and found out about low carbing and the side effects that statins can have. I made an appointment to see the diabetic nurse who encouraged me to take up a low carb diet and took me off the statins. Within a few weeks, I was feeling much better and had stopped having the hand cramps. I have low carbed ever since with the support of my diabetic nurse and have never felt better. I have gone from a dress size 28 to a size 14 and my last stats were HbA1C 5.2, cholesterol 4.8, triglycerides 1.2. My nurse has told me off the record that she believes whole-heartedly in low carbing having seen positive results in many patients but is constricted by the NHS guidelines. I would not hesitate to recommend giving low carb a try. [/QUOTE]
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