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<blockquote data-quote="Bellx15" data-source="post: 323528" data-attributes="member: 26391"><p>Reasonable questions, which I will attempt to answer.</p><p></p><p>As in other areas of medicine, in the area of diabetes I have learned not to take the 'official' account unquestioningly. I agree with many people on this forum, for example, that official dietary advice is completely and utterly wrong. Regarding the diagnosis and development of diabetes, I continue to question. If things I am told don't seem to gel properly, I am especially keen to look into them a bit more carefully, and see what emerges.</p><p></p><p>So because I am still unclear about the basis for my diagnosis, and cannot yet see how the information I have been given fits together, I am trying to make sense of things for myself. I was diagnosed soley on the basis of a couple of high readings, at the apex of my dietary deviation, and told that I would always be diabetic and that it would progress. However, I don't yet see any of that as being certain. I think most people under that regime would suffer heightened BG and glucose intolerance, diabetic or not. Here's an alternative story:</p><p></p><p>For most of my adult life I have had fairly high FBG, and over the long term it has not worsened; in fact, it has improved, as have my other blood factors. Then, for reasons I prefer not to go into, I started to abuse myself with a very high sugar and carbs routine, with no let-up for over eight months. Eventually I developed the familiar symptoms of high BG. Under this relentless barrage of glucose, my liver, etc., finally reached storage capacity, so that any carb intake caused my BG to rocket. My liver had reached capacity and couldn't cope with the glucose. </p><p></p><p>But so far there has been no evidence for physical damage. The overload was temporary and fully reversible. After a few months I have reduced all the readings to better than when the abuse started. There is no evidence that anything irreversible has occurred. I can say that I have a degree of glucose intolerance, but I probably always had that. For example, I have <em>always</em> reacted badly to starchy food in the daytime (get weak and drowsy). </p><p></p><p>So in short, I don't yet feel that I have a clear picture of my condition, and I want to find out more about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bellx15, post: 323528, member: 26391"] Reasonable questions, which I will attempt to answer. As in other areas of medicine, in the area of diabetes I have learned not to take the 'official' account unquestioningly. I agree with many people on this forum, for example, that official dietary advice is completely and utterly wrong. Regarding the diagnosis and development of diabetes, I continue to question. If things I am told don't seem to gel properly, I am especially keen to look into them a bit more carefully, and see what emerges. So because I am still unclear about the basis for my diagnosis, and cannot yet see how the information I have been given fits together, I am trying to make sense of things for myself. I was diagnosed soley on the basis of a couple of high readings, at the apex of my dietary deviation, and told that I would always be diabetic and that it would progress. However, I don't yet see any of that as being certain. I think most people under that regime would suffer heightened BG and glucose intolerance, diabetic or not. Here's an alternative story: For most of my adult life I have had fairly high FBG, and over the long term it has not worsened; in fact, it has improved, as have my other blood factors. Then, for reasons I prefer not to go into, I started to abuse myself with a very high sugar and carbs routine, with no let-up for over eight months. Eventually I developed the familiar symptoms of high BG. Under this relentless barrage of glucose, my liver, etc., finally reached storage capacity, so that any carb intake caused my BG to rocket. My liver had reached capacity and couldn't cope with the glucose. But so far there has been no evidence for physical damage. The overload was temporary and fully reversible. After a few months I have reduced all the readings to better than when the abuse started. There is no evidence that anything irreversible has occurred. I can say that I have a degree of glucose intolerance, but I probably always had that. For example, I have [i]always[/i] reacted badly to starchy food in the daytime (get weak and drowsy). So in short, I don't yet feel that I have a clear picture of my condition, and I want to find out more about it. [/QUOTE]
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