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<blockquote data-quote="jenrose" data-source="post: 442352" data-attributes="member: 11454"><p>Thanks Mo, I do have some test strips (bought by myself). I am pleased to here that you have lost such a lot of weight Pez I think it is a good thing to stay on the register and not just for motivation. Over the last 7 years since I was diagnosed I have read that we cannot be 'cured' of diabetes but we can achieve good control. I have also read that even if we have good control after a number of years complications may arise. I was reading the latest Balance magazine and on the 'ask the experts' page there is a reply to a lady from London who asks 'Does a cure exist?' after she had seen a Channel 4 program about a group of women who were told that they were no longer had type 2 diabetes. The reply from the dietician Pav was that is '....currently no cure for either Type 2 or Type 1 diabetes.' Pav also wrote that 'Most people with Type 2 diabetes can control the condition very well without medication. However, they do still have the conditioan and should continue to have annual reviews of both their HbA1c and screening for complications.'</p><p></p><p>Annew I am pleased that you can control your diabetes without medication. When you mentioned that the surgeries have targets and gave the target of 9 what does the 9 mean? </p><p></p><p>I feel that we should be patted on the back for achieving good control instead of being scared of being taken off of the register although I appreciate that some people may like to come off. If she had asked if I wanted to come off it wouldn't of been so bad. Since 2003 I have taken medication to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol so need to have blood tests for this. I have only had an annual review since 2006 and my feet are seen every six months by the podiarist (I have mild treatment for corns and hard skin on the ball of my foot) and never get weighed so I am hardly taking up much of the DN's time and would take up more of her time if I started to have short term complications such as thrush, bladder infections and chest infections as I saw her first a few years ago. I have never had any advice from her. Oh she did ask if I wanted to see a dietician again. I wondered why I would when I was doing so well? At first I did see a dietician but she told me she knew nothing about diabetes and when I wrote down what I ate at breakfast I was told that was fine. From a nutrition point of view perhaps a bowl of cereal, toast, banana and glass of orange juice is but not for diabetics. I began eating the above as having gone on a 'low fat' diet and did not realize this was not a good thing to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jenrose, post: 442352, member: 11454"] Thanks Mo, I do have some test strips (bought by myself). I am pleased to here that you have lost such a lot of weight Pez I think it is a good thing to stay on the register and not just for motivation. Over the last 7 years since I was diagnosed I have read that we cannot be 'cured' of diabetes but we can achieve good control. I have also read that even if we have good control after a number of years complications may arise. I was reading the latest Balance magazine and on the 'ask the experts' page there is a reply to a lady from London who asks 'Does a cure exist?' after she had seen a Channel 4 program about a group of women who were told that they were no longer had type 2 diabetes. The reply from the dietician Pav was that is '....currently no cure for either Type 2 or Type 1 diabetes.' Pav also wrote that 'Most people with Type 2 diabetes can control the condition very well without medication. However, they do still have the conditioan and should continue to have annual reviews of both their HbA1c and screening for complications.' Annew I am pleased that you can control your diabetes without medication. When you mentioned that the surgeries have targets and gave the target of 9 what does the 9 mean? I feel that we should be patted on the back for achieving good control instead of being scared of being taken off of the register although I appreciate that some people may like to come off. If she had asked if I wanted to come off it wouldn't of been so bad. Since 2003 I have taken medication to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol so need to have blood tests for this. I have only had an annual review since 2006 and my feet are seen every six months by the podiarist (I have mild treatment for corns and hard skin on the ball of my foot) and never get weighed so I am hardly taking up much of the DN's time and would take up more of her time if I started to have short term complications such as thrush, bladder infections and chest infections as I saw her first a few years ago. I have never had any advice from her. Oh she did ask if I wanted to see a dietician again. I wondered why I would when I was doing so well? At first I did see a dietician but she told me she knew nothing about diabetes and when I wrote down what I ate at breakfast I was told that was fine. From a nutrition point of view perhaps a bowl of cereal, toast, banana and glass of orange juice is but not for diabetics. I began eating the above as having gone on a 'low fat' diet and did not realize this was not a good thing to do. [/QUOTE]
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