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<blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 2422621" data-attributes="member: 196898"><p>I was discharged a couple of days ago after a fortnight on the heart ward of the local county hospital. My patient data board correctly stated for all to see that I was following an LCHF diet which was originally subtitled Low Carb High Fat, but when Sister saw it, she rubbed out the word Fat and replaced it with Fibre, because it was an absolute NO-NO to have high fat on a coronary care ward.</p><p>My first-morning FBG was 4.4 mmol/l which immediately rang all their alarm bells. I was forced to eat a small packet of highland shortie biscuits to ' cure my dangerous hypo' I was also given a piece of lemon drizzle cake to swallow, but I managed to swap it for a bar of chocolate with the patient next door who was happy with Eatwell and cake but the chocolate was his no-no as it contains sugar. I decided (like another post above) to keep Stumm and not try to educate them otherwise.</p><p></p><p>The food was good, and so long as I avoided the vegan specials and did not request pasta or potato then even though the doctors had removed my diabetic sweeties and gave me no other means to control my bgl. my sugars generally hovered around the 12 mmol/l mark (whereas at home it would be half that). This was claimed to be GOOD and where they wanted me to be despite my protestations. I did get one tut-tut with a reading of 15.6 after another pack of biscuits and they threatened to put me onto insulin, but I refused. </p><p></p><p>They have no idea what T2D control requires and treated me like T1. Every day I was urged to eat some porridge or Weetabix or Bran Flakes and to have a pudding with custard or ice cream. You would think they were doling out the food on commission. So the problem for T2D seems to be systemic in the NHS and even the DSN that saw me had no idea what LCHF did, nor the time to learn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldvatr, post: 2422621, member: 196898"] I was discharged a couple of days ago after a fortnight on the heart ward of the local county hospital. My patient data board correctly stated for all to see that I was following an LCHF diet which was originally subtitled Low Carb High Fat, but when Sister saw it, she rubbed out the word Fat and replaced it with Fibre, because it was an absolute NO-NO to have high fat on a coronary care ward. My first-morning FBG was 4.4 mmol/l which immediately rang all their alarm bells. I was forced to eat a small packet of highland shortie biscuits to ' cure my dangerous hypo' I was also given a piece of lemon drizzle cake to swallow, but I managed to swap it for a bar of chocolate with the patient next door who was happy with Eatwell and cake but the chocolate was his no-no as it contains sugar. I decided (like another post above) to keep Stumm and not try to educate them otherwise. The food was good, and so long as I avoided the vegan specials and did not request pasta or potato then even though the doctors had removed my diabetic sweeties and gave me no other means to control my bgl. my sugars generally hovered around the 12 mmol/l mark (whereas at home it would be half that). This was claimed to be GOOD and where they wanted me to be despite my protestations. I did get one tut-tut with a reading of 15.6 after another pack of biscuits and they threatened to put me onto insulin, but I refused. They have no idea what T2D control requires and treated me like T1. Every day I was urged to eat some porridge or Weetabix or Bran Flakes and to have a pudding with custard or ice cream. You would think they were doling out the food on commission. So the problem for T2D seems to be systemic in the NHS and even the DSN that saw me had no idea what LCHF did, nor the time to learn. [/QUOTE]
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