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Hello This is my song

I am new to Tumblr, but not diabetes.  I was diagnosed in January of 1997.  From what I read of others' experience, I would say my case has not been a particularly severe one.  However, I have been going now for twenty years, and I have learned a lot in that time.   One of the first things I learned was that the drugs that were prescribed did not work all that well, and had side effects that worried me more than diabetes.  I learned that doctors all seem to agree that the condition will worsen over time, whatever the steps you take to control it.  I learned that I could not depend on doctors to help me very much, if at all! I learned that the American Diabetes Association recommends a diet that includes 40 grams of carbohydrate per meal, and that if I want to control my glucose swing I need to eat about 20 grams of carbohydrate per day.  I feel now that I might have been much more active at trying to control it early on if I had been better informed about what to expect with it.    So after nineteen years, I was losing feeling in my feet.  And then in October of 2016, I developed an infection in my right foot that led to the loss of about 10 inches of that leg.  This really got my attention.  I remember lying in my hospital bed wondering if I was destined to get well.  Would I be able to get my condition under control, or was I going to lose the other foot, as well?  Had I waited too long?  I spent a month in rehabilitation, and there they took my blood glucose reading about an hour before each meal.  This gave me the opportunity to study my diet and experiment to find the right combination of foods to eat.  Before I went into the hospital I had begun a high fat, low carbohydrate diet, and I found that the less carbohydrate I ate, the easier it was to control my sugar level.  Salads with a high-fat dressing were extremely helpful.  I ate at least 5 per week during rehab.     When I came home, I began doing research online.  During Rehab I had a major blood test with 16 pages of results.  Then in January, we did another one, and again in June.  This gave me a chance to see how the efforts I was making were affecting my condition.  I watched my heart markers and my diabetes markers growing better and better.  However, the inflammation markers were going the other way, so I began to research what this meant to my health.  No one in the medical field had ever spoken to me about the connection between inflammation and heart disease and diabetes.   After my June blood test, I decided to begin working to improve my inflammation results.  I learned that walnuts, broccoli, peanut butter, brussel sprouts, almonds, and other leafy green vegetables are anti-inflammatory foods, and I began to include them in my diet.  I am giving blood for another blood test next Monday, the 28th of August, and I will write about what I learn from that in a later article. My next article will be about the struggles to control my blood glucose levels after rehab, and what I found to help in that effort.  It should take me a couple of days to write.    This is just the beginning.  I have learned a good bit from my experiences with diabetes, and I will continue to share them here.  I hope you will share yours, too.

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A Ted talk that totally lays out the BS that is our carb-loaded and fatphobic nutritional guidelines?

THIS 👏 IS 👏 IT.

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You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot have both.

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I handle my diabetes like a dog flies a helicopter.

Badly and not for long.