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Message: <blockquote data-quote="srm100841" data-source="post: 1462417" data-attributes="member: 22527">My Following my initial diagnosis in 2002 of T2, I was referred to a dietician by my diabetic nurse.  The dietician followed the 'accepted guidelines' of balanced meals but more or less eating what I wanted apart from the obvious things like sugars, sweets, confectionery, cakes etc.  Predictably over the years my BG levels continued to rise.  When told that the next step was insulin (I have a morbid fear of needles) I started researching the web and came across this site and got interested in the low carb diet.  I started on a fairly strict regime of 50 carbs per day spread over 3 meals.  As a consequence within 8 weeks my levels dipped from 11 to somewhere in the 6's.  Since then I've managed to both control my BG levels to below 6 and reduced my pill medication from 320 gms per day of gliclazide to just 20!!When I last saw my doctor some 4 years ago he looked quizically when I mentioned my low carb success and was a bit disparaging.  My faith in the views of professionals relating to diabetes is pretty low.  My advice is to do your own research and conduct some of your own experiments to see what works for you.</blockquote>

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