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lammaboy1

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Having had type 2 for over a decade, I feel qualified to comment on what we know about diabetes.Absolutely nothing.
8 pills a day, careful diet and exercise have resulted in blood glucose levels going off the charts. There are more 'old wives' tales' than accurate information, and the greatest advance in medical science over the past 66 years of my life has been the introduction of the digital leech.
Doctors merely double your medicine until that great day when they announce you to be type 1, and off you trot with your syringe.
Ending up here was a final shot in the dark, but I can see that diabetes, like religion, attracts a million answers, and none that make sense.
Good luck with your many observations on the king's new clothes.
 
And chucking out some of the commonly held notions of health diets for diabetes - the NHS promotes a diet that makes blood sugar really difficult to control without lots of medication.

Have alook around teh forums and look at the success stories threads. I'm low carbing, but that isn't the only way to go, but the people who are succesful significanly reduce the level of carbs the consume.

Achieving normal blood sugar is possible, but it involves a fair bit of work on your part. It also involves putting aside some of the accepted (and promoted by the NHS) wisdom on diet.

I tend to listen to old wives, after all, you don't get to be old by being stupid!
 

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Needing to take insulin does not turn a Type 2 into a Type 1. Don't believe any Dr who says it does.
 
I understand the anger and the bitterness. I really do. But surely, if you believe what you posted you have merely added to the well of misinformation without contributing anything to the solution? What was the point? Stamping feet and lashing out won't help you or anyone else no matter what you believe. In the nicest way possible mate, time to grow up.
 
I'm of the opinion that old wives know more than doctors.
About 28 years ago, at a family wedding, one of my toddler nephews was coughing a lot. His nursery school teacher( an old wife) said it was whooping cough. The doctor said it wasn't. 3 weeks later, my own toddler had whooping cough. She hadn't been immunised, for medical reasons and then coughed for the next 9 months. Had my daughter been a sickly child, she might have been very ill and even died. That old wife certainly knew her stuff.
 
I have been diagnosed T2 just over a month, if I had listened to the Doc/NHS I would still be eating starchy processed carbs.

My fasting BG is in the 6s now with regular excercise on my bike.

Iammaboy1 what do you eat??????
 


I "think" what Lammaboy is trying to express is that there is SO much information out there its difficult to know who to believe or where to start.

I agree mostly with information given on here by real diabetics , but find it VERY difficult to relay that to the medical proffesion with thier own views. Most days for me are hard and i get bitter too !! Sometimes it just a relief to SHOUT about it and Lammaboy definatly got something off his chest with his statement
 
It's what the soapbox was designed for, Chez.

AAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!

See. I feel much better.
 
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