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Greetings to you all, my comrades!

I am still reeling from the news today, that my body needs me to give it insulin!! I am due to attend my local diabetic clinic on Tuesday to be given a plan to move forward as a diabetic.

The truth is: I am sh1tting myself!
 
NotJustME said:
Greetings to you all, my comrades!

I am still reeling from the news today, that my body needs me to give it insulin!! I am due to attend my local diabetic clinic on Tuesday to be given a plan to move forward as a diabetic.

The truth is: I am sh1tting myself!
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Welcome to the forum, would you like to say a bit more about how you have come to be diagnosed as for someone diagnosed as Type 2 it is unusual for the first step to be insulin.
Did they tell you what your HbA1C test result is. /
 
Routine blood tests for my other conditions, and I was knocked over by the news that my HbA1c is 120.
 
Welcome to the forum @NotJustME

Have you been experiencing any symptoms prior to your diagnosis? Thirst? Tiredness? Needing the toilet more often?

Any weight loss without meaning to?

Anyone with Type 2 diabetes in your close family?

If you are happy to share, are you living with overweight or obesity?

It’s only that it’s slightly unusual for people with T2 to go straight onto insulin, and I wondered whether your Dr had investigated the possibility of other types of diabetes, or if there were some clear indications for T2?
 
Mine was 104 at diagnosis, due to over indulgence. My blood sugar level came down to a normal level after 7 days on a Newcastle Diet and no medication.
 
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Mine was 104 at diagnosis, due to over indulgence. My blood sugar level came down to a normal level after 7 days on a Newcastle Diet and no medication.
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However I had no other conditions, except for hemochromatosis provisonally diagnosed at the same time. My GP arranged an ultrasound scan of my liver to help confirm the hemochromatosis. The radiologist confirmed I had a fatty liver and the treatment was diet. I started my diet.

A fatty liver seems to be at the root of many conditions including macrovascular, T2D and several others. In c.2008 Professor Roy Taylor and his team at Newcastle University proved T2D was reversible by studying the effect of a low calorie low carb diet on a number of patients for 8 weeks. Liver fat came down to normal (about 2% from up to 35%) and T2 went away for patients who lost sufficient weight up to 15 kg.

If I were you, and my other conditions did not preclude it, I would want to try the Newcastle Diet before insulin. Hopefully my blood sugar levels after 7 days would come down to a manageable level.

Newcastle Diet leaflet: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/media/wwwncla.../files/201809 Sample Recipes & meal plans.pdf

Roy Taylor, Information for Doctors:

Roy Taylor, Achieving T2D remission (May 2023):
 
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