Dear
@Bobby59
"When I was first diagnosed I was given a booklet called "Advice for people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes" I still have it. This booklet offers some advice on simple life style changes and dietary changes and at the back there is a section for useful contacts included in this list is Diabetes UK Cymru. Some one with in the NHS took a lot of time to put this booklet together and must of made 100% sure the advice given to be correct..For all it's flaws the NHS are doing a brilliant job considering how grossly underfunded it is and frankly I am getting a bit sick and tired of people putting OUR NHS down. When it is gone you'll sure as hell notice the difference. When you go into a hospital and before looking at you they ask you for your credit card."
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When I was first diagnosed I was seen by a diabetes nurse who told me that my condition was progressive and that I would end up injecting insulin.
I was not given a helpful booklet with sensible diet choices. Instead I thought I would do my own research and in doing so found this website and all the incredibly helpful and supportive people here. When I went back after a few months and saw the same nurse she was shocked and amazed at the change in my HbA1c results. However she was not in the slightest bit interested in how I had achieved these results which I found truly amazing.
This is the level of service given to Type 2 diabetics in
YOUR NHS. We are advised to eat carbohydrate with every meal even though this is bad for us. We are prescribed drugs immediately without any mention of dietary changes because most of our healthcare professionals are either not interested in helping us to get better or are rewarded for getting us onto those medications.
So I am sick and tired of reading on these forums reports from people who have been deliberately misled by some healthcare professionals. I am bloody minded enough to have taken my own health issues into my on hands. Remember, your doctor does not have your Type 2 diabetes, you do. You should decide how you want to treat it. If you want to follow your handy NHS booklet then fell free to do so. However please butt out of trying to tell what I should and shouldn't know about something that I have probably researched as much if not more than you. I would also suggest that you stop pooh poohing advice you are being given by people who have firm control of their blood sugars.
You keep mentioning your "friend" who you have known for exactly 6 weeks. You have a sample size of one yet seem keen to build a hypothesis on this one example , hardly scientific. If you wish to follow your doctor's advice then please do so however we are adults and have made our own decisions not to do so. If you are really interested in learning about LCHF then read some of the threads on the success stories page and digest. If you still don't want to try it then don't, I don't give a ****. Your condition is exactly that YOUR condition, mine is mine and I have made my decision.
I think you are just here to have an argument like a typical "golf club bore" who talks over everyone and is unable to listen. If that is the case I will no longer play.
Regards