I am reading in different threads comments about what a doctor has said or what a nurse has said when you tell them about the Blood Sugar Diet. Just to try to get an idea of the medical professions reaction to this, it would be interesting to have all the comment together under one thread. Some people have told the doctor before starting, what did they advise, has that changed now they are seeing your good (I hope) results. Have there been any really positive or really negative reactions to us taking things into our own hands. Some of you will have just started and not had the conversation yet, I know some are due to be retested at the end of this month. Let us know how you get on and lets hope there are more positive than negative. Maybe this will help people who are going to be having this conversation soon and you must always tell your doctor what you are doing with your medical situation. Maybe we will recruit lots of doctors / nurses into our way of doing things. Also, it does not have to be diabetes related. Lots of people are doing this diet for other medical reasons or just for the sake of good health in general.
I will start off as I have already told my doctor what I am doing.
To start with my results had been terrible, it is a long story about a rubbish nutritionist putting me on a high carb diet. I was running an HBA1c of 8.2 and over 6 months and 3 tests not been able to get it down. My doctor was in despair with me, knowing I was such a good patient and always taken good care of myself. I had found Dr Mosleys book by chance and told my doctor I was going on a new diet, no details, he had already heard it all and just smiled at me. When I went back for my next check up my HBA1c was 6.7 my cholesterol and triglycerides were all down to well within a normal range, and my weight was down by 4kgs.
He was amazed and very happy with me. Then I told him about the diet…… When I said I was on 800 calories he nearly fell off his chair. No no no, you cannot live on 800 calories. I had typed up a list of 5 days worth of meals, in detail, not just courgette salad, but everything that went into it. At the bottom I had written notes like, I do not eat simple carbs, and listed them, I do eat complex carbs and listed a few like cauliflower, aubergine. I do eat full fat foods like butter, cheese, yoghurt. And so on, the water, how I manage my exercise days etc etc. Now, here I have to say because I live in France my doctor is like private, I pay him and a consultation is 15 mins but can be up to half an hour if I want to discuss things. This is my GP not a hospital consultation. I gave him the internet address for Dr Talyor at Newcastle University and told him to look if he was intersted, and I gave him a copy of Notes for Doctors. So basically I lectured him for about 15 minutes. He said my diet was nutritious and good and my results were so good how could he say different and that I was to carry on with what I was doing. I had already reduced my medication (insulin down from 37 units to 26 units each night and Glycazides down from 90mg to 60mg) which he was happy about. He said he would not reduce my cholesterol meds until he had seen another test result and I should stay on my blood pressure medication as it was still high at 130 / 80 with medication so not back to ‘normal’.
I had to see him 4 weeks later about something unrelated but he had to do my blood pressure and weigh me and I had lost another 1.5 kg and my b/p was 125/70, so he is open to discussion on my next visit at the end of November.
Knowing my doctor he will have looked at the web site and updated himself on the research and we will have a very full discussion which I will report back on here. I hope others stories are just as positive.
