Stop use of insulin

[lynbrown]

I read yesterday that Halle berry was able to stop taking insulin for her diabetes by exercising every day. Can this be true?

[Sqad]

If it was type 1 diabetes.........then impossible.

If it was type 2 diabetes.....then probable.

[daffy654]

http://www.dailymail....-battle-diabetes.html

Seems she has type 2 sqad.

[Sqad]

daffy....right. Thanks.

[ethandron]

it's such a complicated condition isn't it?
i remember our next door neighbours son in his first year at med school saying to our youngest (at the time a fairly newly diagnosed type 1) 'you just have to lay off the chocolate and shoot up with insulin'. i sincerely hope this now qualified doctor (anaesthetist) has learned a bit more about medicine in general, and diabetes in particular... he was a pratt then and my guess he's still a pratt, albeit a qualified one!

[Sqad]

Eth

<<<<you just have to lay off the chocolate and shoot up with insulin'<<<

Seems good advice to me....what´s wrong with that?

I was a "prat" at Med school and I have been called that on AB and worse ;-)

[daffy654]

My diabetic stepson (Type 1) eats chocolate all the time, he just has to alter his insulin dose to compensate for it.

[ethandron]

my son also eats chocolate. the point i was making (as i'm sure you're aware doctor dear) is that diabetes is a tad more complicated than that.
as for you being a prat, at medical school or on here, well, if the cap fits....;)
daffy - exactly.

[mike11111]

It is complicated. I was diagnosed Type 2 two years ago after a blood sugar test showed 8.3. I am not on any medication, I don't follow a diet regime, I eat and drink as I always have done and every blood test since then has shown a reading of between 5.0 and 5.5, which I understand to be well below the level at which one becomes a diabetic, so how am I still classed as such? Can the condition cure itself? I know I am very fortunate; I lived with my mother for 30 years who was Type 1 and had to inject insulin twice a day so I am aware of the limitations placed on many patients. My mother too would not follow a diet regime, but in her case the consequences were more drastic. I learnt to spot the warning signs and force heavily-sugared tea down her, but on more than one occasion I have come home from work only to have to ring the doctor for a glucose injection as she had lapsed into unconsciousness.

[Sqad]

eth

<<<well, if the cap fits....;<<

You called me "dear" (sqad swooning)

[ethandron]

...but only in a professional capacity, swoon not :o)

[Sqad]

eth....yeah! they all say that to start with..........!

[Sqad]

mike....first principle in Medicine......if an unexpected blood test comes back.....repeat it.

If that had been followed in your case, the blood sugar would come back normal and you would not have worried about being a diabetic......which you are not.

A mild type 2 diabetic can be controlled with exercise and diet alone....the word "cured" cannot be applied to diabetes.

[Jemisa]

I'm a diabetic e&r, have been for 30 years insulin controlled, I don't think your neighbours son was a "pratt" what he said was true just said in a 'blunt' way.
I myself cheat sometimes and have chocolate but it can push my blood-count up to 18+ if I haven't prepared for it.
We've got Christmas coming up and its going to be a nightmare.

jem

[mike11111]

Join the Jehovah's Witnesses. No Christmas, probelm solved!

[mike11111]

Why do I spot a typo a nanosecond after I click 'submit'? Is this sod's or Murphy's law?

[Sqad]

jemisa

<<<I don't think your neighbours son was a "pratt" what he said was true just said in a 'blunt' way. <<<

Exactly jemisa.....just the clever Eth & Ron act ;-)

[starone]

I agree with Mike, it is a very complicated condition. All my aunts and uncles, and my father had type 2 and I was told to make sure I didn't have it because it was familial. My cousin has it, my sister has it, my son has it, but for some reason it has missed me. For which I am very grateful. It is a very debilitating condition to suffer with. For some reason, my husband whose family was completely clear developed it at age 40 and in th end had to inject which makes your whole life a different ball game.

[mike11111]

My mother's father died from it in 1917 at the age of 36, before the discovery of insulin. She developed it in 1960 at the age of 44. I showed no signs of it until two years ago at the age of 59.

[Sqad]

The problem today is that Type 2 diabetes is affecting teenagers and this is a big worry........no exercise, poor diet, sitting in front of the TV........and will cost the NHS a fortune.

[ethandron]

there's more to controlling diabetes than laying off chocolate and shooting up insulin would you not agree?? is that all you do to contol yours jem? is chocolate the only thing diabetics need to be wary of?