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What I Do To Stop Eating Medicines Of Diabetes?

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vimu786

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Diet only
If people control on their diet, then he/ she try to stop eating medicines and enjoy their life without eating diabetes medicines.
 
Some Type 2's have managed to control their diabetes and not need any medications anymore by following a low carb high fat diet, Type1's however will always need insulin.
Your profile shows you as type 1, if that's correct you will always need your insulin injections.
 
I’m a type 2 on minimal drugs for my diabetes. I get no side effects and the drug I’m on has multiple benefits aside from type 2. I eat a low carb diet as well and as a result I have non diabetic blood sugars. I am quite content taking the meds and I enjoy my life.
 
Which medicines do you eat?
 
Rachox said:
I’m a type 2 on minimal drugs for my diabetes. I get no side effects and the drug I’m on has multiple benefits aside from type 2. I eat a low carb diet as well and as a result I have non diabetic blood sugars. I am quite content taking the meds and I enjoy my life.
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My story is simillar to @Rachox as I too am using only one med for heart protection rather than sugar levels. We, I believe, used different diets to get to this point but both of us are T2 and in remission. There are other possible diets too that can help keep sugar levels low without meds, so it is possible even in someone like me who is a seasoned diabetic of at least 15 years.

The secret many of us have discovered is in getting our own blood test kit for home use, and using this to see exactly how the food we eat affects our sugar levels. Many of us find that reducing carbohydrate in our meals makes significant differences to our disease, but the meter is the first step.
 
ickihun said:
@vimu786 is this thread to help benefit you as a type1 or someone who is a type2, instead?
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The profile for the OP declares T1, but treatment is diet only. Question was raised if this is correct early in the thread, but has not yet been clarified, from what I have seen. The thread title appears to be asking about taking oral meds.
 
Dr Bernstein's book states protecting the pancreas cells in diabetes is very very important so if it was me I'd be not taking Gliclizide tablets. It is renown for burning out the few cells left in type1s or longstanding type2s.
Gliclizide tablets over work the pancreas.
All other oral tablets work differently.
Metformin uses the liver and gut/intestines.
Canagliflozin/Dapagliflozin and Empagliflozin works the kidney's process to rid body via urine of some excess glucose.
All can work together if need be.
 
ickihun said:
Dr Bernstein's book states protecting the pancreas cells in diabetes is very very important so if it was me I'd be not taking Gliclizide tablets. It is renown for burning out the few cells left in type1s or longstanding type2s.
Gliclizide tablets over work the pancreas.
All other oral tablets work differently.
Metformin uses the liver and gut/intestines.
Canagliflozin/Dapagliflozin and Empagliflozin works the kidney's process to rid body via urine of some excess glucose.
All can work together if need be.
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I researched this story of burnout, and no, Glic is not associated with burnout at all, according to recent meta studies. There is a questionmark over other sulfonylurea meds, but not Glic which is a 2nd generation med. This was discussed at length in another thread, and that has links to the science. My pancreas is still producing loads of insulin as far as I can tell, even without the Glic tabs which I no longer need,
I would be more worried by some of the new meds such as DPP-4 and SGLT-2 tabs that seem to have a nasty association with pancreatitis
 
The original poster has been asked to clarify diagnosis and treatment- please do not derail further by discussing various drug treatments until we know their position.
 
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