Told to keep trying with meds. What doesn't work this time may work next time.e.g Metformin+insulin.

[ickihun]

My last consultant reminded me to just keep retrying metformin and reducing insulin.
I've been doing this for over 5yrs now. I will as its excellent advice.
After all what choice have I got.

This isn't a burn out but just taking stock!

 

[ianf0ster]

My last consultant reminded me to just keep retrying metformin and reducing insulin.
I've been doing this for over 5yrs now. I will as its excellent advice.
After all what choice have I got.

This isn't a burn out but just taking stock!

Hi Ickihun,
I sympathise, you have been dealt a poor hand health wise and you are doing all you can. We will always be diabetic not matter if or for how long we attain remission - so this has to be a lifetime of consciously making the best choices for our health.

I have been inspired by several forum members who have overcome great difficulties, including one who has been T2D all this century, on medication, gained lots of weight, had some retinopathy, needed a toe amputated, but when he finally found the right advice managed to pull himself back into non-diabetic HbA1c range.

Compared to people like him and yourself, I have had it very easy with just CVD and T2D to contend with.

Best wishes,
Ian

 

[ickihun]

Hi Ickihun,
I sympathise, you have been dealt a poor hand health wise and you are doing all you can. We will always be diabetic not matter if or for how long we attain remission - so this has to be a lifetime of consciously making the best choices for our health.

I have been inspired by several forum members who have overcome great difficulties, including one who has been T2D all this century, on medication, gained lots of weight, had some retinopathy, needed a toe amputated, but when he finally found the right advice managed to pull himself back into non-diabetic HbA1c range.

Compared to people like him and yourself, I have had it very easy with just CVD and T2D to contend with.

Best wishes,
Ian

Thanks @ianf0ster.
Ever so often I have to take stock. It helps me stay focused and a reminder of how far I've come.
I am delighted with how much insulin units I've reduced, for the second time in the 5yrs. I've worked hard to get here which isn't anyway near remission or without insulin.
My weight loss has stalled at 4½st lost in 4mths after a bariatric operation.
Now I'm thinking is it time to give more conscious lower carb eating as long as no palpitations and chest pain. I'm due to see the bariatric team dietician so I will discuss then.
I will still be low calorie and low fat and unfortunately limited exercise wise. I'd love to be able to burn loads of fat in previously successful jogging or cycling routines. Mainly in the gym or in spring-autumn parks. I won't rest til my mobility has improved to do just that. Softer, slower and less weight behind it. Literally.
Often I have to take stock to continue the fight. Anyone else?

 

[ickihun]

Ps my poor GP practice are lumbered with me moaning on them til I get to where I should be, in my eyes. I have nothing but huge praise for them. Every member of their team.
I feel confident we will get a collective success story for all to be pleased to hear about. One of hundreds to be used and critised for ongoing improvement of diabetic care.

 

[Daibell]

Hi. Were you told to reduce fat and calories by your consultant or just following NHS mantra? For most of us a low-carb diet is the best way forward as carbs are the villain for weight and BS gain. As you have had a bariatric op I'm no expert on that but do go low-carb if the consultant goes along with it. Also in general forget calories as reducing them will imply reducing fat over carbs which for most of us is the wrong way to go.

 

[ickihun]

Hi. Were you told to reduce fat and calories by your consultant or just following NHS mantra? For most of us a low-carb diet is the best way forward as carbs are the villain for weight and BS gain. As you have had a bariatric op I'm no expert on that but do go low-carb if the consultant goes along with it. Also in general forget calories as reducing them will imply reducing fat over carbs which for most of us is the wrong way to go.

I don't lose weight if I eat cheese, nuts or cream. My cholesterol is being dissected by me and my health teams. I hv a raised HDL which I feel is OK. It is however monitored due to my CVD.
I have lost before bariatric help on low carb but only when low fat and low calorie. It was hell, but I did it. I was constantly hungry and bad tempered. Now without hunger it has been so so much easier. Keeping my appetite suppressed with metformin in the past helped. I hv just restarted metformin but very little bg help. In fact it sways around more.
I add weight on lchf eating. I did try and was hopeful but too many calories made a difference to my body.
Only on low carb, low fat and low calorie eating gets 1lb loss a week. A very slow loss. I was 21st losing 1lb. 2lb on zenical a week. It was painful weighing or trying to celebrate my weak losses.
I just need to lose another 4st now.

 

[ickihun]

Still have fatty liver. Only severe low carb eating improves my liver.