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Dragonheart

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Hi,

I’m type 2 diagnosed almost 5yrs ago. Immediately went keto and got to drug free remission, lost weight, improved the dreaded cholesterol figures and ratios and felt great. Spent 4 yrs that way wavering between low carb and keto. Life, hospitalised covid, steroids and injuries have knocked me off course but I’m slowly clawing my way back. Been active on “the other red” forum for years and various other groups. Looking forward to a new set of fellow travellers on this road no one wants to walk.
 
HSSS said:
Hi,

I’m type 2 diagnosed almost 5yrs ago. Immediately went keto and got to drug free remission, lost weight, improved the dreaded cholesterol figures and ratios and felt great. Spent 4 yrs that way wavering between low carb and keto. Life, hospitalised covid, steroids and injuries have knocked me off course but I’m slowly clawing my way back. Been active on “the other red” forum for years and various other groups. Looking forward to a new set of fellow travellers on this road no one wants to walk.
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Welcome to the forum, you certainly have been through the mill in the last few years.
Steroids are well known for being disruptive to managing blood glucose. Where are you at with your level at the moment and are you having to take any medication or are you managing with your low carb dietary regime. People find keto hard to sustain but I find low carb is now my new way of eating and find 70g per day manageable.
 
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Welcome to the forum, you certainly have been through the mill in the last few years.
Steroids are well known for being disruptive to managing blood glucose. Where are you at with your level at the moment and are you having to take any medication or are you managing with your low carb dietary regime. People find keto hard to sustain but I find low carb is now my new way of eating and find 70g per day manageable.
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I’ve never taken medication related to diabetes and at my last review I was at 53mmol. Down from my high of 56 just after covid/steroids/injury at the end of last year. Not awful compared to some but previously I was always at or just above 40. And have no reason to believe I won’t get there again in the near future as I get back to what I did previously.

I understand that for some keto is hard to maintain and I would guess I bumped in and out out of it at around 50g carbs a day. It’s a different way of eating for sure but it becomes normal like any change done consistently. I guess going vegan is comparable but few seem to question that choice. Personally I’d find that far harder and I know metabolically and healthwise which choice is better for me (ethics/morality or religion aside).
 
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HSSS said:
Hi,

I’m type 2 diagnosed almost 5yrs ago. Immediately went keto and got to drug free remission, lost weight, improved the dreaded cholesterol figures and ratios and felt great. Spent 4 yrs that way wavering between low carb and keto. Life, hospitalised covid, steroids and injuries have knocked me off course but I’m slowly clawing my way back. Been active on “the other red” forum for years and various other groups. Looking forward to a new set of fellow travellers on this road no one wants to walk.
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Completely understand you feel the "dreaded cholesterol"
We've all been there!
 
travellor said:
Completely understand you feel the "dreaded cholesterol"
We've all been there!
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Dreaded as in the conversations around it not the actual levels. I got fed up of the surgery nurses trying to get me to take statins simply because I have the type 2 label, regardless of hba1c and only looking at total numbers to tick their boxes whilst having glazed, confused expressions if I mention ratios or particle sizes and calculations not measurements or numbers to treat or side effects. My trigs and Hdl and ratios all massively improved after I changed my diet on diagnosis and ldl remained similar but almost certainly changed particle size so I’m happy and sit well within their qrisk %’s to justify being left to my diet in that respect after a while
 
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Dreaded as in the conversations around it not the actual levels. I got fed up of the surgery nurses trying to get me to take statins simply because I have the type 2 label, regardless of hba1c and only looking at total numbers to tick their boxes whilst having glazed, confused expressions if I mention ratios or particle sizes and calculations not measurements or numbers to treat or side effects. My trigs and Hdl and ratios all massively improved after I changed my diet on diagnosis and ldl remained similar but almost certainly changed particle size so I’m happy and sit well within their qrisk %’s to justify being left to my diet in that respect after a while
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Ah, the "ratios" and the "it's so fluffy" argument.
I just keep the numbers right, everything else falls in behind that.
 
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Best go with the science
 
Even though you’re on the Red forum you’re welcome here.

And this is a much nicer place to be 🙂
 
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