Diabetes medication - can you eat anything?

luvchocolate

Very useful replies..definitely cut out sugar and eat low carb. 
I found the diabetes uk site and forum a lifesaver 

Murphybear

Diabetics should follow a healthy diet.  Non diabetics should follow a healthy diet.  

A lifetime of eating  rubbish can cause all sorts of health issues, not just diabetes.

it often runs in families and it is perfectly possible to get it even though you have followed a healthy diet and aren’t overweight.  This is my personal experience.

However, over the last few years it has become difficult to actually know exactly what a healthy diet is.  It used to be low fat, now it’s low carb.  Everyone agrees that sugar is not healthy, particularly dentists.

I was having trouble with my meds and weight gain.  What diabetics are often not told is that quite a lot of diabetes meds cause weight gain.  I found this and one lot of my meds was replaced with a once weekly injection.  This is done with a pen in the stomach and it is virtually painless.  I found it dulled my appetite and after 3 months my blood sugar levels were normal.  I followed a low carb diet and lost 4 stones.

I found the most helpful website is diabetes.co.uk.  Tons of useful articles, loads of low carb recipes and lots of support from other people who ‘now exactly what you’re going through.

I know there have been some scare stories about people having their feet amputated but my research which was backed up by my diabetes nurse, is that is nearly always the result of poor diet, neglecting your feet (they should be checked and washed every day), attending your yearly checkups and not taking your meds as instructed.

MrsStepford

Before oral meds for Type 2 diabetes, it was treated by a low carb diet and if that didn't work, with insulin.

 If you have insulin, then yes you can match insulin to carbs. If you're on oral meds, they don't push down blood glucose much and keep it stable, especially if you're eating carbs. 

A low carb diet can put diabetes into remission. There are a few NHS doctors using this but the majority hand out diet sheets, telling patients to eat less and exercise more and to base their meals on carbs. It's like telling a coeliac to eat bread.