Drugs for type 2 diabetes given too soon

[Labarum]

BBC NEWS | Health | Diabetes drugs given 'too soon'

[LadyT]

How true. It also doesn't help that the so called healthy diet that most dietitians and GP's advocate for diabetics is low fat and still relatively high in carbohydrates. There was no way I could control my blood sugar using the diet I'd been given which made me feel even more of a failure. It's a pity that more people don't advocate Atkins for diabetics.

Therese

[imagood1]

I wish more of the medical profession would understand this WOE is not a fad, that real results are achieved, that it's not bad for us. When I first came to the board I was curious because I had heard good and bad about Atkins. I knew people who were "doing Atkins" their way...in other words, not "doing" Atkins. I found Lizellen, Sherri, you, Chef Kevin -- real people who had lost real amounts of weight. Not once under anyone of the pictures of the people was the disclaimer "results not typical" like you see on Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig. I haven't eaten food I didn't like, or that had no taste. My meals are not delivered in boxes to my front door.

The important things about this WOE is I feel healthier than I have in years, my diabetes is under control and I'm losing weight. Like I said, I just wish the medical profession would get on the ball and stop treating Atkins and those of us who are using it as backward stepchildren that should be kept in a closet - this is the way of the future - we just have to keep showing our doctors that we are right. I honesty believe everyone should be living this WOE - it would change the face of medicine in this country.

When I was first diagnosed with Type 2 I was immediately scared into submission that they knew what was best for me, given a meter to check my blood and a prescription for 5-500 glyb/metformin X 2 -- when I didn't respond to the medication an additional 500 mg of metformin was added at bedtime. It wasn't my body that didn't take to the medicine, it was me -- I didn't want to be a diabetic so I stopped eating sugar and thought I'd be ok. Last week I had another A1C -- it is half what it was to begin with, my meds were changed from 500 mg metformin at night to 1000 because my fasting numbers are still too high but my daytime meds are now 1 5/500mg glyb/metformin at breakfast. My goal is to be off all meds by the end of the year (if not before).

I've decided not to keep quiet about what I'm doing to reverse my health problems, I'm going to tell anyone and everyone that will listen and if they try to put this WOE down I'm going to stand up and shout from the rooftops what I know is the truth.

Thanks for the article -- it was very interesting!

Carole

[MrsChesterDogg]

The sad part about this is that most doctors in the US don't really know what "eating better" is when it comes to diabetes. I was advised by a so called diabetic educator to have 60 g of carbs at EACH meal! It's a wonder I ever got a handle on this thing.