insulin dependent to diet controlled in six weeks !!!

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Permalink Reply by Emmy on August 16, 2009 at 1:28pm

I would love to know if this trend continues, or if you start to need insulin again, so keep us posted!

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Permalink Reply by rainbowgoddess on August 16, 2009 at 2:27pm

I have the feeling you were never type 1 in the first place but probably a misdiagnosed type 2. But whatever you were, I'm glad your diabetes is under control.

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Permalink Reply by Kristin on August 16, 2009 at 2:30pm

Hi Sharon-- glad to hear that you are still doing well. I admit that I admire your discipline to the diet and the caution with which you proceed. Have you told your doctor about stopping insulin yet? What was his or her reaction?

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Permalink Reply by Sarah on August 16, 2009 at 8:45pm

Would you please STOP plastering this story all over the place?

It's inaccurate, and it can be DANGEROUS for a real type 1!!!! You were not correctly diagnosed, and you're just perpetuating MISinformation!

Stop being another Halle Berry!

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Permalink Reply by Sharon Jones on August 17, 2009 at 12:26am

i can understand your fear sarah, my GENUINE story obviously rocks the very foundation of type 1 diabetes. but it is completely true.

i dont advocate any type 1 to just STOP taking insulin at the drop of a hat as that would be both irrespsonsible and dangerous, my journey tells how over a six week period i was able to reduce my basal insulin rates GRADUALLY, and only when i felt safe to do so and with A LOT of monitoring of my Bg's did i do so.

i would hope that anyone else following any diet like this and making major changes would do so with the guidance of their health care team.

i cant stop what is true sarah.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Gobin on August 17, 2009 at 1:19am

I share your concerns, Sarah.

An attention grabbing headline like the one above is indeed potentially dangerous. I suspect Sharon was possibly a misdiagnosed T2 because I find it impossible to believe in such a dramatic "turn around".

I'd still be interested to know whether Sharon's BGs continue to stay in check in the long term though.

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Permalink Reply by Sharon Jones on August 17, 2009 at 1:40am

just to put the record straight here, i did not respond to type 2 meds at all which was standard treatment also for type 1.5.
i have always been sensitive to insulin, i was under the impression that most type 2's are insulin resistant?

type 1 is in my mothers family. so a genetic predisposition is present.

my specialist told me i have the latent version of type 1 diabetes. ie LADA

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Permalink Reply by Tanya (Baby Tee) on October 21, 2009 at 7:57pm

Sharon,

Always great to hear that diabetes has improved with improved diet. Good for you for making the lifestyle change to improve your diet. Great self control that I probably don't have.

Technically Type 1 diabetes is where your immune system attacks your pancreas, specifically the islets of langerhans, and you eventually produce no insulin. Initially, you are in the "honeymoon period," as mentioned when the islets are dying off, but then you will need insulin. Diet and exercize cannot change you from Type 1 to Type 2. Please be careful and continue to monitor your sugars carefully.

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Permalink Reply by Jan on August 28, 2009 at 2:56pm

Please keep track of your blood sugars very carefully, even if you are off insulin for now. Here's why: If you are Type 1, you are probably honeymooning, and it is not uncommon to have insulin needs greatly reduced (some even are totally off insulin) for the honeymoon period. Or it is very possible you may have been misdiagnosed as a Type 1 when you are, in fact, Type 2. A TDD of 25 units a day for a grown woman, would depend on your weight. My niece, diagnosed at 8, and perhaps 50 pounds, had a basal rate of 7 units for first year and a half, so a basal of ten units a day would lead me to believe you are still honeymooning. Please continue to monitor your levels because there has never been a Type 1 who did not need insulin. If Type 1, without insulin, you will die. P.S. I truly hope you are right, that you do not need insulin, and that you are Type 2 as you seem to be experiencing good results with your new diet.

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Permalink Reply by Ali on October 18, 2009 at 3:08pm

Hi Sharon. I too am on insulin but am what now seems to be known as a type 1.5. I am revisiting the Alkaline diet again. I followed it for a few weeks about 3 years ago and it was of good benefit - got my numbers under control, I lost weight, my Candida symptoms all went away, and my IBS cleared up.

Unfortunately I had to stop it after 5 weeks because my stomach got pretty sore. I don't know why - it might just have been a transitional thing - had I stuck with it I might well have got through it and out the other side, but I gave up. The good results I got otherwise were an indicator that I was on the right track though.

Someone else mentioned it on another forum and it triggered me to get the book out and re-read it. I picked up this thread when I was doing a search of 'Alkalizing and Diabetes'.

As it is now about 4 months since you started this thread, and presumably the diet, I am interested to see how you have been getting on with it.

I am convinced that acidity is an issue for me and has been for years - my hard-to-lose weight issues are a good indicator. I was put (wrongly) on to Byetta for three months in July 07 and lost some weight fairly rapidly. I became very sick and had to be taken off it. Shortly after, my digestion collapsed. I now believe that the Byetta forced my body into losing weight which released acids and toxins into my system that my body couldn't cope with. I have been struggling ever since to rebuild my digestion and clear the backlog.

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Permalink Reply by Ali on October 19, 2009 at 5:26pm

Sharon, have you tried adding the 'Watercure' to your protocol? I have started that and am watching with avid interest to see where it goes.

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Permalink Reply by Xanthasun on November 3, 2009 at 10:37am

Just curious, but what do you eat on this diet? I remember seeing your previous post and was curious about the diet, but wasn't able to find a lot of info on it. How many carbs a day or per meal do you eat? Also when you were diagnosed was your body producing any insulin? Did you have a c peptide test done? Also do you exercise and if so, how much and how many times a week?

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