My fathers friend came down with your condition in her 50's and walked every day and stayed on her diet, and never went flown blown!
Such information is useless - what diet? How much walking? What does "flown blown" mean?
I was diagnosed in 2,000 at 61. I maintained exercise - tennis - and followed the given diet. By 2,008 I was crippled with peripheral neuropathy. Leg pains that were present as a numbness when I was diagnosed.
The advice I had been given was to maintain exercise & base my diet on complex, brown carbohydrates, very low sugar & fat. I was warned that diabetes is progressive, & whatever I did it would worsen. I was at risk of blindness, amputation, kidney failure, stroke, heart disease .... I left the surgery thinking I had the disease that would kill me.
Now, TWENTY YEARS after diagnosis, and TWELVE YEARS after I thought my active life was over, I am fit & well, diabetes under control, still playing tennis at club standard. The transformation is a low carb, high fat diet! I don't take any medication.
Get your advice from long term patients who are controlling their condition - a contributor to diabetes.co.uk/forum gave me the advice to stop eating carbohydrates. I gave up eating bread, potatoes, rice, cereals etc, and increased veg, proteins, fatty foods. In THREE months I was free from pain & playing tennis again.
Now at 80 y-o after TWELVE YEARS of a low carb, high fat diet - lifestyle rather than diet - I am fit & well.
Any questions - ask me or the forum.
