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<blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 1167410" data-attributes="member: 196898"><p>Neither term (remission or reversal) equates to being the same as cure. (Thesaurus, anyone?) If you follow the NHS dogma that diabetes is a progressive disease, then being able to step back in terms of reducing or ceasing medication is indeed a reversal of that progress, but as pointed out above, it is not a cure.</p><p>I have myself reduced my medication and taken my bgl levels back to almost Normal Range, but I get reminders now and again that the bad old days can easily return. Just the other day I accidentally forgot to tke any of my meds, and my bgl post prandial rise was 0.3mmol/l, and fell by 1.6 at 4hr PP. So my body is obviously producing some insulin. However, the next day I had elevated bgl, so my 'remission' was short lived. I still need meds, and I do not believe that either term represents any pemanent change. Yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldvatr, post: 1167410, member: 196898"] Neither term (remission or reversal) equates to being the same as cure. (Thesaurus, anyone?) If you follow the NHS dogma that diabetes is a progressive disease, then being able to step back in terms of reducing or ceasing medication is indeed a reversal of that progress, but as pointed out above, it is not a cure. I have myself reduced my medication and taken my bgl levels back to almost Normal Range, but I get reminders now and again that the bad old days can easily return. Just the other day I accidentally forgot to tke any of my meds, and my bgl post prandial rise was 0.3mmol/l, and fell by 1.6 at 4hr PP. So my body is obviously producing some insulin. However, the next day I had elevated bgl, so my 'remission' was short lived. I still need meds, and I do not believe that either term represents any pemanent change. Yet. [/QUOTE]
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