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<blockquote data-quote="berylc" data-source="post: 1109048" data-attributes="member: 42210"><p>I was diagnosed around 4 yrs ago, if I remember right. I was doing really well, lost weight, sugar levels down. Then my baby grandson was diagnosed with West Syndrome at 4/5 months old. It's an awful form of childhood epilepsy that could have left him brain damaged, blind or even dead. But he was treated (after a lot of visits to the Dr and NHS24 hospital visits) and eventually after a few months weaned off all his meds (VERY high dose steroids and epilepsy drugs that could have made him blind). But he was one of the lucky ones that came through it unscathed. As you can see by the photo on my name bitty he's doing grand. But I couldn't get it out of my head that he might relapse and so I 'comfort' ate for almost 3 1/2 yrs. I would buy bars of chocolate and pig the lot in one go, supposedly to make me feel better, when in fact chocolate and the eating pattern made me even more depressed. I didn't want to go down the route of tablets for it from the Dr, didn't feel I could speak to anyone about how I felt and so struggled on. Finally I looked at my lifestyle and realised I wasn't going to be any help to anyone if I got gangrene or went blind through diabetes. My brother wouldn't go to the Dr and got both, along with kidney failure. He died through his own stupidity, I realised in the end I was almost as stupid as he was. I knew the risks PenfoldADP but ignored them. But now I'm getting my life on track again...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="berylc, post: 1109048, member: 42210"] I was diagnosed around 4 yrs ago, if I remember right. I was doing really well, lost weight, sugar levels down. Then my baby grandson was diagnosed with West Syndrome at 4/5 months old. It's an awful form of childhood epilepsy that could have left him brain damaged, blind or even dead. But he was treated (after a lot of visits to the Dr and NHS24 hospital visits) and eventually after a few months weaned off all his meds (VERY high dose steroids and epilepsy drugs that could have made him blind). But he was one of the lucky ones that came through it unscathed. As you can see by the photo on my name bitty he's doing grand. But I couldn't get it out of my head that he might relapse and so I 'comfort' ate for almost 3 1/2 yrs. I would buy bars of chocolate and pig the lot in one go, supposedly to make me feel better, when in fact chocolate and the eating pattern made me even more depressed. I didn't want to go down the route of tablets for it from the Dr, didn't feel I could speak to anyone about how I felt and so struggled on. Finally I looked at my lifestyle and realised I wasn't going to be any help to anyone if I got gangrene or went blind through diabetes. My brother wouldn't go to the Dr and got both, along with kidney failure. He died through his own stupidity, I realised in the end I was almost as stupid as he was. I knew the risks PenfoldADP but ignored them. But now I'm getting my life on track again... [/QUOTE]
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