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<blockquote data-quote="Daphne917" data-source="post: 2199591" data-attributes="member: 124172"><p>Not necessarily - it depends on what they are advised, whether they are able to research and are prepared to go against what is perceived to be professional advice. My hba1c was 48 on diagnosis and I was told to cut down on sugars, go low fat and given a copy of the eatwell plate and a ‘traffic light card’ for fats and sugars and prescribed statins because ‘all diabetics had to take them’. For a while I did as instructed because I believed that, as an ‘expert’, my DN knew what was best and working a 60 hour week meant that I didn’t have much time to research etc. It wasn’t until my hba1c increased to 54 that I began thinking that, if I’d done everything I had been told to why was my BS getting higher - I was also getting side effects from the statins - it wasn’t until I researched them that I came across this forum which went against all the advice I had been given but I tried it anyway. I also stopped taking statins which reduced my hba1c to normal levels fairly quickly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daphne917, post: 2199591, member: 124172"] Not necessarily - it depends on what they are advised, whether they are able to research and are prepared to go against what is perceived to be professional advice. My hba1c was 48 on diagnosis and I was told to cut down on sugars, go low fat and given a copy of the eatwell plate and a ‘traffic light card’ for fats and sugars and prescribed statins because ‘all diabetics had to take them’. For a while I did as instructed because I believed that, as an ‘expert’, my DN knew what was best and working a 60 hour week meant that I didn’t have much time to research etc. It wasn’t until my hba1c increased to 54 that I began thinking that, if I’d done everything I had been told to why was my BS getting higher - I was also getting side effects from the statins - it wasn’t until I researched them that I came across this forum which went against all the advice I had been given but I tried it anyway. I also stopped taking statins which reduced my hba1c to normal levels fairly quickly. [/QUOTE]
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