Lilymills
Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
I have had Type II for the best part of 30 years. For the first couple of decades I controlled it with a low carb diet, sometimes badly, sometimes well. I am a binge over eater.
I was a very early adopter of Michael Mosley’s diets and I still cook Fast800 recipes today. I was also an early adopter of very low calorie shake regimes when it was considered dangerous, Boots would not sell you keto sticks over the counter and you couldn’t find a doctor for support. I was absolutely delighted a few years ago when Roy Taylor came on the scene with his Newcastle Study and his proof of concept of vlcds possibly reversing Type II. And now the treatment is enjoying limited trials in the NHS. What a long way it’s come.
Unfortunately I do not seem to be in the vlcd reversal of Type II cohort, not everyone is. I always felt markedly better and lost weight on the shakes, but no-one would take me seriously or take my HbA1c! For the last 10 years I have seen a diabetic nurse for check ups and she wasn’t interested at all in low carb diets (over low fat), even though the results delighted her when I cooked my Fast800 recipes! Now she has retired and younger staff seem very much up for it. In 30 years of Type II treatment, attitudes and medicines have never felt better to me!
One blip I’m currently going through has been upsetting. I was given several weeks Jardiance to try. For me it has worked like a miracle drug, restoring my energy levels well towards what they once had been. I thought I had been written up for it (really silly) and when I ran out, my eager requests for more were refused amid much dismay for me. I have to see a nurse first and have a blood test. Duh - of course. Why didn’t I think of that?
That was nearly three weeks ago as there were no earlier appointments, so an abrupt and shocking cut off. I have been on a descent through many old returned symptoms, both remembered and not, and the comparisons have been enlightening and horrifying. Also, back to cancelling things that I was beginning to enjoy again and not having enough energy to look after myself properly.
I see the nurse on Thursday and I hope I am passed for a new prescription without having to see a doctor as well and have more delays (plus the 8.00 am telephone scramble for an appointment only, naturally, at the receptionist’s discretion).
If you got this far - thanks so much xx
I was a very early adopter of Michael Mosley’s diets and I still cook Fast800 recipes today. I was also an early adopter of very low calorie shake regimes when it was considered dangerous, Boots would not sell you keto sticks over the counter and you couldn’t find a doctor for support. I was absolutely delighted a few years ago when Roy Taylor came on the scene with his Newcastle Study and his proof of concept of vlcds possibly reversing Type II. And now the treatment is enjoying limited trials in the NHS. What a long way it’s come.
Unfortunately I do not seem to be in the vlcd reversal of Type II cohort, not everyone is. I always felt markedly better and lost weight on the shakes, but no-one would take me seriously or take my HbA1c! For the last 10 years I have seen a diabetic nurse for check ups and she wasn’t interested at all in low carb diets (over low fat), even though the results delighted her when I cooked my Fast800 recipes! Now she has retired and younger staff seem very much up for it. In 30 years of Type II treatment, attitudes and medicines have never felt better to me!
One blip I’m currently going through has been upsetting. I was given several weeks Jardiance to try. For me it has worked like a miracle drug, restoring my energy levels well towards what they once had been. I thought I had been written up for it (really silly) and when I ran out, my eager requests for more were refused amid much dismay for me. I have to see a nurse first and have a blood test. Duh - of course. Why didn’t I think of that?
That was nearly three weeks ago as there were no earlier appointments, so an abrupt and shocking cut off. I have been on a descent through many old returned symptoms, both remembered and not, and the comparisons have been enlightening and horrifying. Also, back to cancelling things that I was beginning to enjoy again and not having enough energy to look after myself properly.
I see the nurse on Thursday and I hope I am passed for a new prescription without having to see a doctor as well and have more delays (plus the 8.00 am telephone scramble for an appointment only, naturally, at the receptionist’s discretion).
If you got this far - thanks so much xx
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