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From last year (July 2019), and no follow-up. As someone who has to deal with T1D every day and carefully monitors news about research, I guarantee you no endoc

by jadell 6y ago

From last year (July 2019), and no follow-up. As someone who has to deal with T1D every day and carefully monitors news about research, I guarantee you no endocrinologist is counseling their patients to try this. Cutting carbs can lead to less need for insulin, but it's not a cure for T1D.

Trasmatta 6y ago
Yep. When I've consciously gone low carb, my insulin requirements have gone down, and my blood sugar was much more manageable. But if I had stopped taking insulin entirely I would have died or ended up in the hospital with DKA.
- 1123581321 6y ago
  With this regimen, you would simply do as your blood sugar numbers direct. It sounds like these patients were measuring and found their glucose to be too low if they took any insulin. In that case, it is safe to stop if coordinated with a doctor. There shouldn’t be any point where a decision is made to drop insulin permanently while your reads are high. Even if stopping insulin prematurely, low carb would mean low risk of DKA due to slowly rising glucose, giving plenty of time to react. Dropping long-acting insulin would be harder to revert, but frequent small doses of short-acting would be an effective stop-gap. A good general principle for us diabetics is to encourage everyone to safely explore the control they have over their particular flavor of this disease, and respect whatever those limits turn out to be. :)
  - RHSeeger 6y ago
    > With this regimen, you would simply do as your blood sugar numbers direct. That's true of every regimen, though.
    - 1123581321 6y ago
      The person I replied to seemed to think that the regimen directed to quit insulin without support from the numbers, leading to diabetic ketoacidosis.
      - Trasmatta 6y ago
        That's not what I think at all. But it's what other people think when they see articles like the one linked. I've had many, many people tell me in the past that I can cure my T1D with keto, which is why articles like this one annoy me.
        1123581321 6y ago
        As a fellow type 1, I understand the frustration.

by jadell 6y ago

Trasmatta 6y ago

Yep. When I've consciously gone low carb, my insulin requirements have gone down, and my blood sugar was much more manageable. But if I had stopped taking insulin entirely I would have died or ended up in the hospital with DKA.

1123581321 6y ago
With this regimen, you would simply do as your blood sugar numbers direct. It sounds like these patients were measuring and found their glucose to be too low if they took any insulin. In that case, it is safe to stop if coordinated with a doctor. There shouldn’t be any point where a decision is made to drop insulin permanently while your reads are high. Even if stopping insulin prematurely, low carb would mean low risk of DKA due to slowly rising glucose, giving plenty of time to react. Dropping long-acting insulin would be harder to revert, but frequent small doses of short-acting would be an effective stop-gap. A good general principle for us diabetics is to encourage everyone to safely explore the control they have over their particular flavor of this disease, and respect whatever those limits turn out to be. :)
- RHSeeger 6y ago
  > With this regimen, you would simply do as your blood sugar numbers direct. That's true of every regimen, though.
  - 1123581321 6y ago
    The person I replied to seemed to think that the regimen directed to quit insulin without support from the numbers, leading to diabetic ketoacidosis.
    - Trasmatta 6y ago
      That's not what I think at all. But it's what other people think when they see articles like the one linked. I've had many, many people tell me in the past that I can cure my T1D with keto, which is why articles like this one annoy me.
      - 1123581321 6y ago
        As a fellow type 1, I understand the frustration.