academicdiabetic
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Hi All,
I commented about a vegan diet in a previous post and said I'ld post how I got on. Any comments only apply to me, of course, but so far the vegan diet is doing remarkably well for me I must say.
I've been on a partial (still had occasional milk in coffee and odd slice of cheese) vegan diet for two weeks and on a completely vegan diet for a further two weeks. Prior to this - so far short term - change in diet (which may be coincidence, but if so, I want to find what the hidden factor is immediately!) I have had a nightmare time, blood glucose all over the shop, but mostly very high (30+ meter readings on a regular basis), whenever my insulin was increased on the suggestion of the medics i would drop occasionally ( for no obvious diet, exercise or other reason) well below 3 and end up in the hospital.... all the medics could advocate was more insulin, change times or doses... change insulin type (lantus nearly killed me by raising my blood pressure astronomically).... you get the picture...
One month on vegan-ish diet, I have been able to drop all daily (usually 5) doses of novarapid and reduce my levemir to 12 units daily... my blood glucose starts at about 5 mmol in the morning and, although still increasing sometimes up to 15, is well below what it was on a regular insulin, vegetarian, low carb diet. I take 'raw protein/raw meal' supplements to cover any vitamin/mineral shortfall and find that I have a lot more energy than I had previously on lots of insulin. The insluin, as far as I could tell, just gave me a weird abdominal fat band (never had any fat on me before in my life) but no energy (anyone else any comment on either of these points?)
As above, this is me, not you, but I would still be interested in other people's 'vegan experiences', also, if the goal is to lower blood glucose and if (I say if, again, it seems to work for my physiology, but who knows, I may be a Martian!), eating vegan achieves this on less insulin, then surely it is a winner. Insulin is damaging, this is well established, so personally, I'm quite excited that at last I seem to have had a breakthrough with 'treatment' which doesn't involve "take more insulin".
It may all go pear-shaped next month and I'll find this is just some weird blip - I'll keep you posted if anyone is interested.
Keep doing what does it for you!
I commented about a vegan diet in a previous post and said I'ld post how I got on. Any comments only apply to me, of course, but so far the vegan diet is doing remarkably well for me I must say.
I've been on a partial (still had occasional milk in coffee and odd slice of cheese) vegan diet for two weeks and on a completely vegan diet for a further two weeks. Prior to this - so far short term - change in diet (which may be coincidence, but if so, I want to find what the hidden factor is immediately!) I have had a nightmare time, blood glucose all over the shop, but mostly very high (30+ meter readings on a regular basis), whenever my insulin was increased on the suggestion of the medics i would drop occasionally ( for no obvious diet, exercise or other reason) well below 3 and end up in the hospital.... all the medics could advocate was more insulin, change times or doses... change insulin type (lantus nearly killed me by raising my blood pressure astronomically).... you get the picture...
One month on vegan-ish diet, I have been able to drop all daily (usually 5) doses of novarapid and reduce my levemir to 12 units daily... my blood glucose starts at about 5 mmol in the morning and, although still increasing sometimes up to 15, is well below what it was on a regular insulin, vegetarian, low carb diet. I take 'raw protein/raw meal' supplements to cover any vitamin/mineral shortfall and find that I have a lot more energy than I had previously on lots of insulin. The insluin, as far as I could tell, just gave me a weird abdominal fat band (never had any fat on me before in my life) but no energy (anyone else any comment on either of these points?)
As above, this is me, not you, but I would still be interested in other people's 'vegan experiences', also, if the goal is to lower blood glucose and if (I say if, again, it seems to work for my physiology, but who knows, I may be a Martian!), eating vegan achieves this on less insulin, then surely it is a winner. Insulin is damaging, this is well established, so personally, I'm quite excited that at last I seem to have had a breakthrough with 'treatment' which doesn't involve "take more insulin".
It may all go pear-shaped next month and I'll find this is just some weird blip - I'll keep you posted if anyone is interested.
Keep doing what does it for you!
