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Type 2 in remission

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Koalajane

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
When your type 2 goes into remission are you still counted as diabetic?
 
In most cases. At least it still gives us access to foot and eye checks.
 
Koalajane said:
When your type 2 goes into remission are you still counted as diabetic?
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I have had a non diabetic Hba1c for approx 7 years but my Diabetic Nurse classes me as being well controlled as opposed to being in remission - which is what I class myself as.
 
Daphne917 said:
I have had a non diabetic Hba1c for approx 7 years but my Diabetic Nurse classes me as being well controlled as opposed to being in remission - which is what I class myself as.
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So you are a well controlled diabetic
 
Koalajane said:
So you are a well controlled diabetic
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I am a well controlled T2 as well, and I have been off Metformin for over a year.

I still get blood tests ever three months, eye testing once a year, and I also get five visits to a podiatrist a year.

T2 diabetes does not disappear, it lies out of sight waiting for a trigger if you relapse on what you eat and start eating a lot of carbs again.
 
I'm another well controlled T2 by my own and by my GP's definitions. I've kept to low pre-diabetic levels for six years now, but I believe what triggered my diabetes in the first place is still lurking about so if in the unlikely event I were to ever start scoffing too many carbs again I'd also expect to see diabetic glucose levels again.... I still get my diabetic checkups but HbA1C less frequently than before.
 
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