Very misleading indeed.

My information is that once you are a diabetic you are that for life. It might go into remission but you still have the disease. If it were as simple as diet and exercise there would be no need for this group at all.
And while being overweight can be a contributing factor - maybe even a big factor it is far from being the whole story as I know some very skinny T2 people............who were that when diagnosed BTW.

In my case it is a combination of my genes (I am the fourth generation to be diagnosed in my maternal family) plus the foods that we were fed as children, just after the war rationing had been lifted here and so families were fed all the goodies that had not been available during the war - all the foods that are not really good for us on a regular basis.

After I was diagnosed I was able to keep my levels under control with diet and exercise too for a couple of years - but that never meant that I was cured - finally it just didn't work any more and I had to resort to taking meds. Sigh!

This is a topic that keeps coming up and is VERY misleading. You are right, there is NO cure for a diabetic.. only able to get it under control My diabetes is partially hereditary. My father and aunt were both diabetic. I was not allowed anything good when I was younger and living at home. I broke my leg in grade six and it never mended properly and I was in a cast for a year and put on a lot of weight. My dad wouldnt allow me to eat my halloween candy or easter candy or even have desert at supper while everyone else did. I therefore started to gain weight because I couldnt do anything. Later, I began to binge and hide foods and gained more weight. Eventually I lost it all and became anorexic and bulemic... twice.... I wasnt really overweight when I was diagnosed, but lost weight again because I was diabetic and thought I had to. I also got my bs under control and was able to go off meds... but.. I ended back on them again and then insulin.

I had posted before that no one in my family ever had diabetes and I have no idea how I got it, I was never obese, just overweight but I did carb myself into oblivion over the years but so do others and they're fine.

forgot the subject matter - sorry - do I think there's a cure for diabetes - I have to answer 'no' except for those who have had GBS. Their food is assimilated differently in the intestines and their bodies can't tolerate eating sugar anymore. Is that a cure - who knows.

But they have to still watch their weight, arline.. and if they gain weight back, they will be just like a diabetic who loses weight and gains it back again.. they will end up on meds again.

goldi - do you know that for a fact - in other words if they keep their weight down they are surely free of diabetes ?

Well, it happened to me, Arline and I know many who when they lose weight and start exercising, dont need their meds anymore... same as I know some who have had GBS and still were on meds... then when they lost weight, didnt need the meds anymore, but if they gained weight back, which happened to two friends of mine, they had to go back on meds again

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In my case my paternal grandmother, aunts, uncles, father and mother are all diabetic.. I was an insulin dependent gestational diabetic in all my pregnancies.. Then was diagnosed t2 in 2005... I weighed 120 pds when I was diagnosed... Then I gained 120 pds... I had GBS in JAN 09... Am now down to 175....Still diabetic tho.. My A1C is 6.3.. I am wondering if GBS works for those of us with the genetic component...

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I think that once you are diabetic that is it. Losing the weight and getting off meds is great and wish that could be all of us, but sadly some of us going to continue to struggle.

My SIL lost a huge amount of weight (she is T2) and was able to get off her meds but over time her sugar levels started to go up again and she was back on them - then she went through a "who cares" phase and would drink 1-2 bottles of wine each and every night and eat what she wanted (great family for cakes etc - by brother and the kids are skinny as bean poles) and is not on insulin AND meds and still is not properly controlled.

From memory - thinking back to my education course - once the pancreas has started this process it can be sent into remission but is always there - bit like things like cold sores and shingles though not as painful.

And Arline just because no-one in your family was diagnosed with T2 does not meant they didn't have it. My mum and I went through our family members and are almost certain that there were several who did have T2 but were never diagnosed as the tests were just not available as they are today.
In fact the first way to diagnose an diabetes was the doctors tasted the urine of the patient and if it were sweet they were considered diabetic. And the needles they used for the insulin were like meat skewers too.

I think this is a play on words here myself. Stands to reason if you eat right your sugar drops, your weight drops if your heavy and you go along your merry way watching forever what you eat. Sort of a remission you might say. Even myself I did it for 7 years, I never once thought my diabetes is gone I just had it under tight control and avoiding meds. Thats what I wanted..

But some think it is gone..I don't believe that. I think this conversation is what started a lot over there.
There was no history in my family but you need to remember they didn't check for this then. If I had my money on it I would say my Dad was diabetic looking back on his symptons. But they always told him it was the BP meds making him dizzy, sick. they did that a lot then cause they were also new and crappy and very strong for people. Thats my guess on it. He might be alive today if I had known then what I think I know now.
Diabetes has beome epidemic and I think it is because over the years we have come to know fast food places which we never had years ago. People both work in the family and picking up food is easier then cooking and a people love it.
I could solve a lot of health problems if i was in charge and took away all the fast food joints,Lol We had drive in's when I was growing up and that was a treat to go park your car and have a waitress come up and bring you food. But it wasn't but once in a great while my parents took us so it was fun and not a way of life like now..Ok off my soap box!!! Gosh, we had drive in movies too ..remember those anyone?? Make out time with the boyfriend haha

I did the same thing as you Sunny.. lost some weight and was off meds. I dont think it is a cure though either. You are always a diabetic, just in control.
I dont think they checked years ago either. I dont think they even really knew a lot about diabetes. My dad died of pancreatic cancer and they said it was linked to his diabetes. I am sure there were others in his family that we didnt even know about that were diabetic.

It really is an epidemic now.

My family all died young from cancer and you just don't know if they would have developed diabetes if they lived longer. I didn't get it till I( was 62

wow.. you are lucky Arline.. I got mine when I was 45...