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Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands

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Re: Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands

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Post by lazyasciiart »

bluedino wrote: post #200
mapt wrote: post #155

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You guys are decades deep into an ideologically propelled plan to "Starve the beast" by denying the NHS funding so that care quality declines, and use that as justification to privatize the NHS entirely. The starting salary for a first-year doctor is below the national median income, and for a nurse significantly below. Their inability to requisition funds & time for care is something there is repeated labor action a…

> The starting salary for a first-year doctor is below the national median income Is it really that low? In the USA an entry level doctor will make around $130,000 and the 'Average doctor' makes $200-$350,000/year depending on what website you want to believe. And we're running like 13% of the population having diabetes.

Median wage in England is about £35k and a first year doctor gets £32k. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/junior-doctors-earnings-s...

Re: Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands

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floam wrote: post #41
cperciva wrote: post #32

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Not that strange. Adult-onset T1D is just as common as Juvenile-onset; it just happens to often get misdiagnosed as T2D. Both T1D and RA are autoimmune, so it's not surprising they showed up around the same time. He was probably infected with a virus a few years earlier which caused the production of auto-antibodies; Epstein-Barr and CMV are famous for this, and it takes a few years for enough damage to take place th…

I was aware of the autoimmune nexus but not that adult-onset type 1 is common or the likely mechanism that’d trigger them. Thanks

Adult-onset being common is actually why they stopped calling it “juvenile diabetes” and now call it “Type 1 diabetes”.

Re: Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands

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lisper wrote: post #294
reaperman wrote: post #261

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I get empty gelcaps from amazon and local nutrition food stores. They cost like $5 for between 100-1000. You can get them in a wide variety of sizes, though you might have trouble if you're looking for something larger than size "000" (1cm diameter, 2.6cm length). Here is a size chart[0] (but there are cheaper sources for the gelcaps). 0: https://ibspot.com/products/capsuline-size-1-empty-capsules-...

Yeah I actually tried that but could not figure out an efficient way to fill them.

You might get help from a compounding pharmacy if you can find one in your area.

Re: Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands

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Post by valval »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #362
valval wrote: post #357

Treating your diabetes is surprisingly simple, actually; stop eating carbs and plants.

The problem is that he wants a plan that is not just simple, but also able to keep him alive.

It's both sad and funny that it comes as a surprise to you that the diet that humans have been thriving on for hundreds of thousands of years is able to keep someone alive, as opposed to the one that was brought about a hundred years ago and has only caused misery and ill health since.

Re: Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands

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Post by kcplate »

jklinger410 wrote: post #137

What I've learned that, as an adult in 2024 in the United States, you cannot take for granted: - That your medical professionals are acting in your best interest - That your insurance company is acting in your best interest - That your medical professional knows what they are talking about - That things that are legal to put in your body will not cause irreparable harm to you - That the legal level of pollutants in t…

When I was first diagnosed with T2 diabetes I was sent to a dietitian who handed me all kinds of pretty literature from the ADA about how great grains and pasta is for diabetics and food pyramids and “eat want you want in moderation and use insulin.”

After 5 years I decided that method was bullshit designed just to sell insulin. Went keto and was off insulin withn 2 months and haven’t had a drop of extraneous insulin since (7 years).

My doctors advised against me going keto because the ADA recommends their diet. When I explained I was going to try it anyway because it made sense that if my body was having trouble processing glucose, that eating a diet that minimized glucose would probably have a beneficial effect.

It was at that point that I realized that many doctors are simply following a treatment formula. Ultimately the ADA had to recognize that keto can be affective at managing diabetes. Yet, they still publish the pretty literature that advises type 2 diabetics to eat a diet that for them is significantly worse than a low carb diet.

Re: Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands

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Post by throw10920 »

potamic wrote: post #321
throw10920 wrote: post #290

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> I understand that some people would look at that list and say I should have never expected some of those, but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad. > So I am not surprised to see this, and expect to see more of it. This is political. You are extremely clearly dog-whistling to the "government needs to reform healthcare" and "America ba…

I think that's a fair bit of stretch

You are wrong. People do not say things like

> but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad.

on HN without a political agenda.

Re: Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands

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Post by lazyasciiart »

valval wrote: post #365
lazyasciiart wrote: post #362

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The problem is that he wants a plan that is not just simple, but also able to keep him alive.

It's both sad and funny that it comes as a surprise to you that the diet that humans have been thriving on for hundreds of thousands of years is able to keep someone alive, as opposed to the one that was brought about a hundred years ago and has only caused misery and ill health since.

I can’t tell if you actually know what type 1 diabetes is or not, but FYI it is not a condition caused or cured by diet and your recommendation would rapidly lead to a miserable death.

Re: Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands

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Post by jklinger410 »

viraptor wrote: post #280
pokot0 wrote: post #267

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Honestly, as a society we should be able to guarantee most if not all of those. Every single one of them is an economic trade-off and when you put for profit companies in the loop, it’s obvious that they will prioritize their profits. The system is for profit by choice, it is under our control as society to guarantee that list or not, and we have chosen not to. Might be the right or wrong decision, that’s up to each…

It's beyond economic trade-off. You're talking about full perfect control over people's behaviours. > That things that are legal to put in your body will not cause irreparable harm to you You can get water intoxication by literally drinking too much clean water. How are you going to get anywhere close to controlling that? > That your medical professional knows what they are talking about You just lost all medical sta…

> You can get water intoxication by literally drinking too much clean water.

This is such a disingenuous response. It's clear that you are attempting to engage in bad faith here, so no response is necessary.

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