Since I last wrote I have been asking people with type 2 diabetes if they believe there is a cure. On the whole their answer was that diabetes can be managed but not cured. If your diet is strict and you adhere to the recommendations by the professionals i.e. Doctors, diabetic nurse, dietician etc then complications will be a long way in your future. Regardless of how well you manage your diabetes they all agreed that in time it will progress and they will eventually be on insulin and living with some of the complications we all hope to never get.
There is some debate what ‘a cure’ means. Is it that you will never have the symptoms every again no matter what the diet and lifestyle is? Or is having being strict and having good management a cure? Could we say that a change in lifestyle and diet may eliminate all signs of the disease, is this then the cure? Many professionals believe that it is genetic and once the gene is turned on then it cannot be turned off.
What do people mean when they say that diabetes can be cured?
A little more research and pondering are required to define this.
In the meantime....
I have been experimenting with food and recording how my body reacts to different diets. Amazingly for one whole day I was off my insulin with normal readings for one meal and lower readings for the others! This is worth investigating a little further.
A little something for you to consider –
Would you rather change your lifestyle and diet to be free from all the signs and symptoms for the rest of your life? Do you think like many other people that your health and wellbeing can never be retrieved and it is too much effort to change which results in complications and an early death?
Drop me a line and let me know.
Till next time.
Surely this is a rhetorical question, you ask, Ana?
ReplyDeleteI'm speaking from a position of good health, so it's probably easy for me to say this, but, faced with the choice of making some changes that could help me alleviate any symptoms, I would do ALL that I possibly could.
It's hard to imagine how down you can get, and the impact of this on your motivation. Focus on the high's with all you might. Be a fighter - you only have one life. Make it the best version possible.
Hi Raw Appetite,
ReplyDeleteI can understand how hard it is to image the downs but the differences in blood sugar can make a normal feeling of 'not being happy' into a feeling that is much deeper and darker and sometimes verges on depression.
This I think is not only due to the changes in our sugars and its affect on our thinking but because the way you physically feel at this time compounds they way you think.
It is a constant battle but you are right we only have one life and it is important that we are taking steps towards health, even if it is one step at a time.