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Hello AnitaM,
You clearly accept that you're diabetic. So if I were you, I really wouldn't worry too much about attaching a 'type' name to yourself.
My goodness, you should take a look at the agitation some of the users of this website display over the issue of diabetic type! - such as who's better off, or worse off.
I've taken insulin for 30 years, and my condition is exceptionally well controlled. (Indeed I'm sure I'm healthier now than I might have been if I'd never contracted diabetes at all; I certainly eat much better now than I would have done otherwise.)
But that control is mostly a function of my own thinking about the condition I'm in. Almost entirely, it's definitely NOT a function of any expert advice I've received. (Somewhere on this website, I refer to some expert advice I received 30 years ago regarding the cutting of visually read blood-sugar testing strips; and that's one of the few exceptions.)
Please don't take this too seriously, it's intended to be tongue in cheek: you could start a revolution in thinking about diabetes. (God knows, that's needed.) You could call yourself 'type 3'!
I am not a medical expert. (I don't really know what 'type 1.5' is, or is supposed to be; but I'm going to look at that section of this website just as soon as I've posted this message.) However I certainly have expertise with regard to the control of my own diabetic condition. And I believe I have far better insight into what is appropriate to the control of my condition than any medical expert I've come up against, or read about.
Evidently, then, I don't have too much confidence in the orthodox method of diabetic control. Irrespective of type, the orthodox method appears to be that you should try eat as though you weren't really diabetic at all; and the medications are set accordingly, and thereafter adjusted - seemingly ceaselessly.
My inexpert advice to you would be that, if you think you can manage it, seek to take insulin. But whatever you do, don't think you can eat like you weren't really diabetic at all. (Short of a genuine cure, as opposed to the genuinely effective cure - at least in potential - of insulin and/or tablets, that will never be possible.)
Fix your insulin first, and then eat accordingly - rather than fixing your eating habits first, and then fixing your insulin according to that.
Since you're diabetic, I believe you should aim to firmly ensure that others in your familial and social environment (who may eat with you) make adjustments TO YOU, as far as is reasonably possible, rather than the other way round.
You clearly accept that you're diabetic. So if I were you, I really wouldn't worry too much about attaching a 'type' name to yourself.
My goodness, you should take a look at the agitation some of the users of this website display over the issue of diabetic type! - such as who's better off, or worse off.
I've taken insulin for 30 years, and my condition is exceptionally well controlled. (Indeed I'm sure I'm healthier now than I might have been if I'd never contracted diabetes at all; I certainly eat much better now than I would have done otherwise.)
But that control is mostly a function of my own thinking about the condition I'm in. Almost entirely, it's definitely NOT a function of any expert advice I've received. (Somewhere on this website, I refer to some expert advice I received 30 years ago regarding the cutting of visually read blood-sugar testing strips; and that's one of the few exceptions.)
Please don't take this too seriously, it's intended to be tongue in cheek: you could start a revolution in thinking about diabetes. (God knows, that's needed.) You could call yourself 'type 3'!
I am not a medical expert. (I don't really know what 'type 1.5' is, or is supposed to be; but I'm going to look at that section of this website just as soon as I've posted this message.) However I certainly have expertise with regard to the control of my own diabetic condition. And I believe I have far better insight into what is appropriate to the control of my condition than any medical expert I've come up against, or read about.
Evidently, then, I don't have too much confidence in the orthodox method of diabetic control. Irrespective of type, the orthodox method appears to be that you should try eat as though you weren't really diabetic at all; and the medications are set accordingly, and thereafter adjusted - seemingly ceaselessly.
My inexpert advice to you would be that, if you think you can manage it, seek to take insulin. But whatever you do, don't think you can eat like you weren't really diabetic at all. (Short of a genuine cure, as opposed to the genuinely effective cure - at least in potential - of insulin and/or tablets, that will never be possible.)
Fix your insulin first, and then eat accordingly - rather than fixing your eating habits first, and then fixing your insulin according to that.
Since you're diabetic, I believe you should aim to firmly ensure that others in your familial and social environment (who may eat with you) make adjustments TO YOU, as far as is reasonably possible, rather than the other way round.