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Re: Diabetes

[elialshadowpine]

OK OP I know this is a couple days late and maybe you won't see this but -- Type 2 is reversible. My dad, who spent well over a decade gorging on full gallons of ice cream and bags of chocolate at night, almost every night, ended up in the ER due to pleurisy (fluid around the lungs; basically, the fluid was suffocating him to death, at the severity he had). The ER did a random blood test. His sugars (not A1C, I don't remember that, but the actual pinprick glucose meter) was 450+. They were amazed he was still ALIVE.

So, he was put on 2 different types of insulin, at high doses, AND metformin (a pill) at also a high dose, in order to get his blood sugar under control. I can't recall if i was 1 or 2 years, but eventually, with diet and exercise, he got to the point where he was able to get off and STAY off all glucose medication. What he did for diet was a variant on the Paleo diet.

Myself, I was dx'd borderline type 2 diabetic in 06. My endo literally told me that if my tests had been a point or two higher, she would have diagnosed me right then. She wanted to put me on metformin. As I was already on a lot of pills for fibro, hormones, other shit, I asked to try diet instead. She said sure, see me in six months. What I used, personally, was a variant on the Glycemic Index Diet. That one works by being aware of the glycemic load in the food you're eating, and balancing it. For me, it works great because... while I don't follow it religiously, I follow it mostly. Like, potatoes, high glycemic load... so instead of a whole bunch of mashed potatoes (which I love), I'll have a spoonful. Stuff like that. I personally didn't find soda to make a difference for me, but that's individual (there is some evidence that diet soda can actually be worse for diabetics because it sets your body up to expect the sugar, the sugar isn't there, system goes kerfuckity).

That diet, though? Doesn't work for my dad. He describes himself as a carb and sugar addict. He CANNOT moderate. If he has a couple spoons of ice cream, he'll be eating the rest of the container. Same thing with various other carbs. He's had to pretty much cut it all out in order to control his sugars.

I say this to express that there really is no "one true way" for managing diabetes/insulin resistance (I have the latter). It's very individual, you may need to try different things, and what you try will also depend on your eating habits. If you're like my dad and can't moderate -- then you need to cut it all out. If you can moderate, though, then it actually really is not that difficult. I went from blood sugars of 130 to regularly being around 80, and I eat fairly normally.

If it helps, IIRC, the book I read was the New Glucose Revolution book, which I personally liked a lot because it went into the science and DID NOT recommend all-or-nothing. In fact, the author was pretty damn clear that this is something that you have to work into, because if you try to go whole hog, you're probably going to fail and go right back to old eating habits. I've read a lot of diet books (mainly because my dad the yo-yo dieter made me read every damn book he picked up) and most present a really unhealthy model. The point for this isn't weight loss; it's your health, and the book IIRC comes from that direction as well (although it does go into weight loss, so I note that in case that's a trigger).

I hope some of this is helpful. There IS hope, and if they've caught it early, it's a LOT easier to treat than, say, my dad's case. In mine, my sugars were normal in about six months. Promise, if my dad with his ridiculous sugar levels can walk back to non-diabetic, I'm pretty damn sure you can too. <3