Hello type 2 here on no meds

[emmo26]

On the 4th week of an 8th week plan of Professor Rod Taylor's Diabetes reversal diet plan. My status updates can be found in the Newcastle university diet thread.

But, I would like to hear some REAL stats here...

I mean, what's the percentage of losing limbs, strokes and going blind if you took the unchecked approach?

If its all about reaching BB Kings lifespan till the age of 89. I would take that all day long.

 

[Northerner]

Hi emmo26, welcome to the forum 🙂 I'll follow your updates with interest - good luck!

I don't have any statistics for you, but what I will do is give the this quote

Well-controlled diabetes is a major cause of...absolutely nothing!

Can't remember who said it, but there is an awful lot of truth in it - if you work hard, learn as much as you can (for there is always something new to learn!), and look after yourself, then your risks for any of the complications of diabetes will be extremely low. Unfortunately, many of the people who end up with complications may have had a whole host of reasons why they ended up there, but if you focus on yourself, your particular needs and tolerances, then you will be doing everything you can. In fact, the chances are you will end up happier and healthier than many who don't have diabetes and therefore don't have that focus in their lives to learn and actively monitor and think about their health.

So - don't worry too much about the scare stories, although they might give you a nudge if you stray from the path of good intentions 🙂 You're clearly determined, as evidenced by doing the Newcastle Diet, so keep that energy going and eventually you will be able to relegate diabetes to the background, so you control it rather than it controlling you 🙂

 

[HOBIE]

You are in brilliant hands up there in Newcastle uui. Prof Taylor & Prof Shaw are very good at what they do. I have met lots of there teams & in my 49yrs have never met better. Welcome to forum 🙂

 

[Amigo]

Emma are you monitored on Professor Taylor's 'diet reversal plan' or is it something you do yourself using their diet information?

I've read a lot about this but wondered if it needs to be done under medical guidance? Sounds remarkably successful.

I'm also recently dx T2 diet controlled only.

 

[bill hopkinson]

On the 4th week of an 8th week plan of Professor Rod Taylor's Diabetes reversal diet plan. My status updates can be found in the Newcastle university diet thread.

But, I would like to hear some REAL stats here...

I mean, what's the percentage of losing limbs, strokes and going blind if you took the unchecked approach?

If its all about reaching BB Kings lifespan till the age of 89. I would take that all day long.

After 10 years I have lost no limbs, have better eyesight that 10 years ago, never had a stroke. I am 4 kilos lighter than when diagnosed.

The only thing I can say is that I am so keen to live long and healthy, I have listened to the doctors and diabetic nurse, corrected them when they are wrong, and then followed the best advice.

 

[trophywench]

Well there aren't statistics for well-controlled diabetes over a lifetime either. I can easily see why that is - when I was diagnosed the clinic waiting room was full of old looking men with younger looking wives and old looking women with younger looking husbands. The old looking people had varying degrees of mobility - some with only one leg, some in wheelchairs, some who seemed to have bad eyesight .........

But now they are all younger than me and bouncing with health ! I do see the occasional old person - but I'm 65 now, so what do they think about me? LOL Don't feel any older in my head than I did in 1972. Figure has sagged a bit - AD and gravity LOL - and about half a stone heavier. (from under 8 and a half stone) I don't wear such high heels or such short skirts, and I have short hair these days. But it's still dark - only I now don't have to pay anyone for my highlights! LOL (It was a bugger and took some time having all those foils done, and having to apply a 'grey' rinse after washing it, to stop it looking brassy!)


Anyway - of course in those days - people didn't stay complication free for anywhere near as long as we all can these days.

So really, eg me and Sue and Hobie are some of the first - and nobody has asked to do a study of us. Who do you think is going to offer to fund it? Not the drug cos - can't make any profit out of complication-free people, now can they !!

So any stats you may find are based on cohorts of people who didn't have anything like the amount of help available to us now - yet we will all still be told that we have a X% chance of something going wrong or dropping off, based on those outdated stats. So as Northie says - ignore it - and make sure you get the best treatment for YOU - having done your homework, like Bill !