Was becoming a diabetic, the greatest larf of your life?

Becoming a diabetic is no joke, but by the cringe, rarely a day goes by and reading forums and blogs, without me falling off my chair in hysterical laughter. Is it just me, do I have a warped sense of humour, am I as mad as some say? What say you.

Well put it this way-I've met more wackjobs posing as diabetics than any wackjobs I've seen on any other unrelated websites!!

Paul wrote:Well put it this way-I've met more wackjobs posing as diabetics than any wackjobs I've seen on any other unrelated websites!!

DCUK was the first forum I ever joined, maybe it should have been my last. One thing is for sure, Sid et al has me holding my guts in pain laughing at time. Maybe I should take him fishing to my lakes some time.

No, it wasn't a laugh at all, becoming diabetic was extremely upsetting. I had worked out for myself that I was heading that way and was pre-diabetic and had started changing my diet years earlier. Yet things got in the way and despite doing my best, my worst fears were realised. I had cut carbs significantly, but not enough and a heart problem meant I couldn't exercise much at all.

I tried to 'cheat' on my 2nd fasting test at my surgery. (I drank red wine the night before to stop liver dump) It worked, but not enough.

I had had pneumonia and my son had it too with glandular fever. When my GP gave my results, I said "at least, I didn't catch glandular fever from him when he drank out of my glass by mistake" My GP said "No, but this is a progressive disease and will be with you forever" I smiled and thought "We'll see"

First of all I did a 7 week very low cal diet (mostly veggies, 600 cals a day). My BG's were great after that, but yes I was still diabetic. I switched back to my own diet (which was almost LCHF as I know it now) and carried on for a couple of years before finding a forum and realising that others did the same as me.

Now here I am.