My expanded story of Type 2 reversal

[David]

How have I missed this? Fantastic post John!

[Trinkwasser]

We need to remind ourselves that our doctors are General Practitioners and with something like diabetes a patient with an enquiring mind is soon likely to know more about their situation than the health professional. That seems to be the case anyway.

That's an important point that can't be stressed enough. A GP's job by definition is to know a bit about a lot of things. It isn't hard when you only have one (or two) conditions to easily exceed their knowledge, unless they have a specific interest in that condition, and even then they may be too busy treating patients (and doing paperwork!) to keep up with current literature. Then of course they may know stuff which they are forbidden to put into effect

[wallycorker]

Just to update on this thread my latest HbA1c taken in December was down yet again from 5.3% to 5.1%.

Taking account of my latest meter readings, I'm feeling quite confident that I'll be able to get this below 5% in the not too distant future.

Thanks to everyone for the help that I have received from this forum.

Best wishes - John

[Marmot]

Fantastic John - you are an inspiration! Wish I could eat the fruit you can tolerate, one thing I miss mor ethan many other things

[wallycorker]

Thanks Marmot!

Yes - I seem to be very lucky with fruit and it is something that I like a lot.

In general, I do usually eat fruit as a snack - i.e. in individual pieces - but I also add grapes or apple chunks to lunchtime salads. Also, when buying I try to buy the smallest pieces - i.e. satsumas of around 40-50g, apples or pears around 80- 100g, bananas of around 80g without their skins. I don't know whether that helps.

[wallycorker]

Here is a further post to update this thread with ny situation in June 2010 after my latest annual tests:

June 2010: TC 3.7; LDL 1.8; HDL 1.52; TG 0.93; BP 105/60; BMI 28.0

HbA1c - Down from 5.1% last time to 5.0% (or 31 mmol/mol in the new units)

Total cholesterol - Up from 3.1 to 3.7 (most of that increase being an improvement of my HDL by 0.42)

LDL - Up from 1.5 to 1.8

HDL - Up from 1.1 to 1.52

TC/HDL ratio - Down from 2.8 to 2.4

Triglycerides - Down from 1.18 to 0.93

Overall, I'm very pleased with the results and they were just about where I expected to be.

Basically, the changes that I've made dietwise since last year are that I've moved away slightly from a very low-fat diet (almsot vegan) to eating even less starchy carbohydrate and eating more meat. That change seems to have been reflected in the increases in LDL and total cholesterol.

I'm particularly pleased with the improvement in HDL to 1.52 because that's the best result that I've ever had - the previous best was 1.3 if I remember correctly. That might be down to the fact that I've built a regular but small quantity of nuts into my daily diet. I might have done a little bit more exercise too - nothing other than just easy walking. However, despite the fact that I try to do just that, I really hadn't thought that I had increased my activity levels significantly.

Further improvement in TC/HDL ratio from 2.8 to 2.4 mainly due to the improvement in HDL?

Triglycerides down to 0.93 - again a best ever I think. Possibly due to the continued reduction in starchy carbohydrate that I eat?

The one area that left me just a little bit disappointed is the HbA1c of 5.0% - again my lowest ever. However, I'd been hoping that I might have gone below 5% this time and into the 4% Club. Maybe next time!

A doctor that I don't usually see gave me the results by telephone. He said that he wouldn't have realised that I was diabetic if the screen hadn't given him that information. When I registered slight disappointment that my HbA1c hadn't gone below 5, he commented that it was absolutely nothing to worry about and that my HbA1c was lower than his non-diabetic level.

Overall, personally, I'm very pleased with what I consider to be a further improvement in my overall situation.

[sixfoot]

John good news and a result, Ive got a 6 monther coming on July 5th so will have to wait and see.

Dave P

[wallycorker]

John good news and a result, Ive got a 6 monther coming on July 5th so will have to wait and see.

Dave P

Stick with it Dave! You know that it makes sense!

Best wishes - John