REDLAN said:WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE NORMAL BLOOD SUAGR LEVELS
If by right to normal blood sugar levels we simply mean a normal HbA1C, and to achieve this I am having 14 hypos a week, then quite clearly the one thing I don't have are normal blood sugars.
this is why we're upset... because these flawed studies are being used to allow them to cut the costs of treating diabetes by reducing the medication being prescribed to T2s or even changing the level at which people get declared to be diabetic
If diabetes can easily be controlled by diet then why do you worry about not getting medication, especially since we have established that drugs can have dangerous side effects?well then, perhaps you should consider changing your diet so that you can achieve good control with very little risk of hypos...
Paul_c said:well then, perhaps you should consider changing your diet so that you can achieve good control with very little risk of hypos...
go get yourself a copy of Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution...
http://www.diabetes-book.com/
you can read excerpts of it here:
http://www.diabetes-book.com/readit.shtml
especially chapter 7...
Humans function well on low BG (4-5%, apparently) so higher BG will damage blood vessels much like using the wrong fuel will damage a car.I don't quite understand the petrol in a diesel car analogy?
You are begging the question.If someone with type 1 can manage to achieve levels along those lines without having constant and dangerous hypos and still have very good hypo awareness then sure good for them I'm sure their health will be much better in the long term
Watch out for Simpson's paradox.In that I complained about my consultant firstly, then did lots of digging to find that it has some of the worst controlled diabetics in Scotland!
That's irrelevant to the question at hand - therapeutic thresholds. If you can achieve good control on exercise and diet alone, brilliant (although that does seem a bit unlikely in the t1 forum...) but the question is when the rest who are unable to do so should be given more drugs.No-one has looked at low HbA1cs kept low by diet and/or exercise.
MCMLXXIII said:If life was a Grand Prix for Diabetics , then the hb1ac would be a pit stop.
If and how you finish the race all depends on how you drove the car
James12 said:MCMLXXIII said:If life was a Grand Prix for Diabetics , then the hb1ac would be a pit stop.
If and how you finish the race all depends on how you drove the car
i disagree, the hb1ac would be the lap time, the quality of your driving determines the lap time.
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