No longer diabetic

Jamrox said:

What can I say ... diagnosed over 4 years ago , low carb diet for over 3 and now my Dr has said I'm no longer a diabetic . Great news I hear you shout but you know what I am diabetic , I may be in a sort of remission BUT to say that I'm no longer a diabetic isn't right .
I don't want to be told I'm not a diabetic , I've go no will power , I only do low carb because I don't want to feel **** and doing low carb stops me feeling ****.
I am proud that I have the knowledge and skills to control my BS, I also know that if I eat high carb for any length of time my BS spikes .

I've attached my project plan that some of you will already have seen . It works for me , I'm not saying that it will work for everyone though . Diabetes is very much an individual person specific condition.

Click to expand...

midnightrider said:

Great stuff, I wish that my GP would say the same.
It has been 6 months now with readings all in the non diabetic range (mean FBG 4.5, all 2 hour pp readings under 6.0, usually under 5.0) with no meds at all. Even high carb meals like pasta or porridge appear to have little or no effect. HbA1c now 32.

However, apparently I am diabetic for life whatever readings I get. Nothing, of course, to do with extra cash GPs receive for diabetic patients,

Click to expand...

Grounded said:

Quite right - once they've got you by the short and curlies they will not let go. It's like the Hotel California - you can check-in but can never check-out, even if the check-in was dubious in the first place.

£3000 a diabetic I read once - no wonder you'll never be free.

Click to expand...

DCUKMod said:

Hi Jamrox - Great result.

I remember you doing your goal setting exercise a while back, and thinking how organised you are.

I have been removed from the diabetes register at my surgery. I didn't ask for it, but agreed to it, when it was suggested. To be honest, I agreed to it to stop all those outrageous conversations where the words, ".... that'll be due to your diabetes....", feature. You know the ones I mean - everything from a cold to the plague becoming attributable.

I still have an annual HbA1c, have my retinopathy scan, and have access to my doc and so on. The only thing I don't routinely have is a formal review, but I do that with myself from time to time, and nor do I have my feet checked. But I only once had had my feet checked during the time I was on the register, and I paid for that, just after diagnosis (I as going abroad for a few moths and wanted it done.)

I haven't found coming off the register has made me complacent, in fact, I might say it has done the reverse. Whilst the vast majority of people are either very pleased for me, or disinterested (in the scheme of things), some are just waiting for me to trip up and for it all to go terribly wrong. I'm sure we all have someone like that in our lives?

The last thing I'll be doing is proving them right, without a good fight!

Again congratulations on doing so well. Whilst I always say that diabetes isn't a solo sport (in that it inevitably impacts those close to us as well as ourselves), only we can do the work to turn in the results.

Click to expand...