banie01 wrote: » Good info for anyone still using the accu-chek. I've ditched it a couple of years ago and moved to a one-touch verio. Meets my needs much better IMO. Really easy to use app that has eliminated my need for a diary and tbh unless and until I move to a libre or CGM I can't see myself swapping meters again.
CramCycle wrote: » Epic stuff Banie. As a matter of interest, when you say extend the diet by two weeks, do you mind me asking what the plan is after the diet. Do you have a different diet that isn't as aggressive but still super healthy, will you just go back to normal and see what happens or will you keep it pretty much as close to the Newcastle Diet as possible with more leeway than before?
Eircom_Sucks wrote: » Since being diagnosed 4 weeks ago my blood sugar levels hovering about 10 Im on 500mg metaformin twice a day Is it ok to increase the dose urself to 1000mg twice a day ? Or do i have to wait till i see my gp in a months time ? Also how to i bring them down lower ?
not yet wrote: » Check out Keto.
Eircom_Sucks wrote: » Whats that ?
banie01 wrote: » For those of us who worry about the inevitability of complications and their progression. Had to visit the Opthalmic clinic today for a Retinopathy check up. Been every 6 months for the last couple of years. Today... The beautiful Dr Olga, discharged me fully from the clinic and back into the normal screening service! I know it sounds small, but I've gone from having a rapid onset of retinopathy in both eyes, to no change over the last 18months! I'm bloody delighted!!!Tight control and little changes can and do make a big difference.
banie01 wrote: » I was in with my practice nurse this morning to get bloods done for A1c and other bits. She was fascinated by the change in both my appearance and my BG control over the course of my doing the Newcastle Diet. I'm still Insulin free, approaching 8weeks without a basal dose now. She immediately wrote down every bit of info I had to hand and said that's her morning sorted now whilst she goes off to take a look at the research. I am due back in next week but the nurse was so excited she said she would ring me on Friday as soon as she had an A1c back as she is mad to see if the improvement I'm encountering bares out in that. Really great attitude and engagement, I don't usually deal with my GP for my Diabetes care as I'm under a public endo. Usually GP is a repeat prescription or non diabetes issues Really great tho to see my primary care team being so engaged and supportive.
vargoo wrote: » Hmm, should she not know about Newcastle already? Shouldn't she be pushing it on everyone?
banie01 wrote: » Most I've spoken to approach it from the standpoint of it likely being a "fad" type diet until it's explained to them.
banie01 wrote: » You would hope so. But aside from one nurse on my Endo/Diabetes team there seems to be very little knowledge of the diet in any of the other health professionals I've spoken to about it. Which considering it's being used as a frontline T2 treatment in trials in the UK is very surprising. Most I've spoken to approach it from the standpoint of it likely being a "fad" type diet until it's explained to them.
banie01 wrote: » To round off my Newcastle Diet posts with some actual numbers. Got my HbA1c back for the 1/5 back this morning and it came in and the grand total of.... 47!!(6.4 in old money) Insulin free since the 24/2 and whilst the glucometer readings were ok in my mind. That puts a number on that I can compare to my HbA1c from mid October 2018. That was a 49.(6.6) So not just did the 8weeks of Newcastle diet allow me to maintain previous BG it has improved! Along with entering month 3 of no basal insulin! My GP is very interested in how it went, and how I managed on the 800cals a day. Let's be honest, it's not a regime for everyone. But, if 8weeks can make this kind of difference in an insulin dependent type 1.5/LADA patient, surely if someone is healthy enough to try without risk they should be supported. My basal insulin requirement has gone from between 28 - 60 units of Lantus. To zero! I'm back to a normal diet now, still 14kg below my starting weight and the bloods and insulin requirement doesn't lie. It has given me a huge sense of ownership of my illness. Rather than just upping my meds and accepting the progression. A bit of willpower, stubbornness and massive support from my wife and child have allowed me to feel in control of this part of my illness.
not yet wrote: » Lads looking for a bit of insight into this is anyone can help. Doc May 2018: Blood sugars 7.3, changed diet and had more energy, lost a bit of weight. Doc Dec 2018: Bloods still 7.3 doc said if all intense and purposes I've diabetes. Overhauled most things in my diet and went back to Doc last week. 6.2 Blood sugars with no meds just low carbs etc. He said keep doing what I'm doing and come back in 6 months.. Bought a blood sugar monitor and taken bloods few times since last week. 5.7-5.9-6.0 etc. Cut 90% sugars and 80% carbs from my diet, I seem to be heading in the right direction. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
CramCycle wrote: » So long as your not starving or being malnourished, then you are pretty much on the right track. If your interested in your blood sugars, you could try a Glucose Tolerance Test. This said, based on the limited data you have given, you caught it early enough to have reversed it or stopped it in its tracks, so the only real advice is don't go back to your old diet. Is your Doc doing a HbA1c or just a fingerprick test? As in are his readings an average or a moment in time? Also, as with everyone in life, if you can do more exercise, do more exercise, one of the best treatments for many metabolic ailments.
