Posted by Pfinstegg on May 4, 2005, at 15:09:20
In reply to Tamar, Pfinstegg, Chemist Sorry. Very long., posted by Dinah on May 1, 2005, at 9:30:37
The fact remains that you are continuing a number of risk factors for diabetes which are in your control, if you choose to take control of them:
1. You can eat a delicious diet within the guidelines- it doesn't have to be beef jerky or stuff you hate! A number of people here on the boards are doing that. How about another nutritionist?
2. Hard as it is, you can get down to a normal weight if you committ yourself to it, and have the proper support from a nutritionist. (My husband just did that- he lost 70 pounds in a year- and he wasn't even eating very much when he was overweight. He did have overweight parents with diabetes, though, and was developing metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. Now he's really healthy at 175 lbs. He says it was the toughest thing he's ever had to do, but he's so glad and relieved now. Not that it's easy now- he's just made a lifelong committment- as if it were AA, he says.
3. I don't think any one medication is vital. You say you take Risperdal 30 times a year- that's about once every 10 days, although you did mention taking more recently. Getting diabetes from the AP's is becoming much better known now. Why knowingly add that risk factor?
Sorry to be hard on you Dinah, but you are just so young to let your health go.
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