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Type 2 Normal blood sugar

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Tez

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Type of diabetes
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I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes on 13th of December 2013 my doctor put me on metformin. I went on a diet and exercise plan and have lost a stone already I have got my blood sugar down to an average 5.7 mmol/L is it normal to get your levels down this quickly.
 
I think so, mine dropped quickly, maybe it would depend what it started off at?

What was your starting point?

Cara
 
19 mmol/L I had a bad habit of drinking breakfast fruit juice.
 
well it means what you are doing is working :) took me a few months to get mine down, but i wouldnt have complained at your numbers hehe
 
Is it possible to have a sugar spike I went cold turkey on the sugar had a headache for a week but feel great now. have people been miss diagnosed with type 2?
Andy12345 said:
well it means what you are doing is working :) took me a few months to get mine down, but i wouldnt have complained at your numbers hehe
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i was told by a doctor on the night of my diagnosis when i asked him if it could be a mistake (24.9) he said if you sat and ate 5 doughnuts your blood glucose wouldnt go above 11 mmol if you wasnt diabetic, not 100% how true that is but thats what he told me so....
 
Tez said:
Can you get rid of type 2 diabetes my nurse says no.
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The nurse says no, the research specialists say the following:

"It has become widely accepted that Type 2 diabetes is inevitably life-long, with irreversible and progressive beta cell damage. However, the restoration of normal glucose metabolism within days after bariatric surgery in the majority of people with Type 2 diabetes disproves this concept.
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The Counterpoint study demonstrated that normal glucose levels and normal beta cell function could be restored by a very low calorie diet alone."

In fact, since Roy Taylor's Banting Memorial Lecture, follow up studies have shown that weight loss does not have to be dramatic, but has to be substantial. Taylor suggests that a crucial number of insulin producing beta cells do not die as previously thought but remain metabolically inhibited and can be restored if enough internal fat is lost. That's not to say they all recover, some are lost permanently, but with care, the progression of the disease can be avoided.

The data show that not only can blood sugar levels be reduced, but insulin production can be increased and restored to non diabetic levels for many type 2 diabetics.
 
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