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Reducing risk of complications

everydayupsanddowns said:
As a tiny detail I think some members would prefer the term recommended range or in range to describing glucose levels as ‘normal’
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Point taken. I should have said fasting blood glucose levels.

I had this slide from one of Roy Taylor's talks in mind. He referred to fasting
blood glucose coming down to 'normal'. Shorthand for 'a level in the normal range'


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Mine came down from a high level to 5.8 mmol/l in 7 days as predicted.
 
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JITR said:
At the time, as I recall, you reported your Thyroid had started working again. I wondered whether that was a factor, and I also wondered why you needed the shakes when you seemed happy with one meal a day.
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It was simply following the guidelines for the regime - I mentioned it to the nurse who took the blood sample and she was gushing confidently that my weight and HbA1c would be down and I'd have done myself so much good - not so.
I have had a test on my thyroid since then - it is down again after low calorie for two months. Hopefully after getting back to normal it will recover again
 
JITR said:
Point taken. I should have said fasting blood glucose levels.

I had this slide from one of Roy Taylor's talks in mind. He referred to fasting
blood glucose coming down to 'normal'. Shorthand for 'a level in the normal range'


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Mine came down from a high level to 5.8 mmol/l in 7 days as predicted.
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The slide looks like a nice piece of cherry picking with hardly any context or meaning. How many T2s does it represent. It can't be many because there were only 17 participants in Counterpoint ( and 462,000,000 T2s worldwide). Is it an average of all 17 participants or just the ones who did actually reduce their Fasting bgs (Confirmation Bias)? We have to remember that 9 of the 17 participants in Counterpoint ( the 53% majority) didn't achieve 'remission' on Taylor's definition of it. As it stands it looks like a squiggle in the middle of nowhere. And of course the restriction to 4 years duration of T2 means it's not relevant to the vast majority of T2s.
 
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