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Fantastically good news - the endocrinologist was bowled over by my excellent blood sugar control. I don't need diabetes medication for the foreseeable future. No pills! No shots! She doesn't need to see me again - my GP and regular testing (feet eyes kidneys blood) will be enough for now.

My long-term blood glucose test was so good, it was down in the non-diabetic range. *buffs nails*

The worst response now would be to get cocky. The other night I made the brilliant blunder of drinking some real Coke, getting thirsty, drinking more Coke, getting even thirstier, drinking more Coke, getting terribly thirsty... see if you can guess one of the symptoms of high blood sugar. I should know better by now.

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Fabulous news!

"Yay!" and... "Whoops!"

In that order.

I've made a similar effort to cut out soft drinks - I'm sticking to Kool Aid, two cups of tea maximum a day, and fuit juices. Sometimes I blow that when I go out and have say, root beer, but... well. It's better than doing it every single day, I guess.

I've become a complete Pepsi Max slut. (I don't think you have this Up Over. I'm not sure why, but it's lots nicer than Diet Pepsi.)

I think we do, but it's got sugar. There was some minor furor when the UK imported Canadian Pepsi Max, expecting it to be sugar-free like theirs, and it turned out to contain sugar (as discovered by a diabetic who drank some).

Yay! Well, that's obviously good news. (Says she whose medication (for other stuff, mind) is based around a schedule of forgetting to takeit, so that's one bother off you!)

But now I'm stunned. My system isn't set up to believe that drinking Coke could ever be bad for a person.

Sadly, my body is no longer able to regulate its own blood glucose effectively, so I have to do the work for it. The Ebon Fluid of Life™ may have contributed to this as part of the general Bad Stuff I dumped into my system, straining my pancreas until it sort of went on strike. (Sugar isn't the only Bad Stuff - I can also recommend a Denny's feed w/lots of white bread and potatoes for a rocketing kidney-crunching blood glucose high. Now I eat multigrain bread and sweet potatoes, both low Glycemic Index foods.)

Excellent control! Congrats.

Coke has caffeine anyways... it will make you thirstier.

The cunning devils!!!

Congratulations! That's fantastic news--it says a lot that you were able to get yourself to the point of no more pills...

Oh no, mistaken impression - I was never on 'em. Since the diagnosis last Christmas I've been controlling my blood glucose with diet and exercise. (Sometimes directly - after one Denny's lunch at Gally, I tested my blood sugar, screamed, and flung myself violently around Van Nuys for half an hour to bring it back down to a reasonable level. :-)

Good job! You've got more self control and will power than I'd have in the same situation! Keep up the good work.

When my brother was diagnosed, he had become so ill he had to be briefly hospitalised - a good incentive for me to do everything the doctors told me! (My brother has done excellent work in improving his condition and has shifted from shots to pills - not just incentive, but an example too.)

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