Julie Bove > wrote:

: "W. Baker" > wrote in message
: ...
: > Julie Bove > wrote:
: >
: > : "Todd" > wrote in message
: > : ...
: > : > On 01/31/2013 02:23 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
: > : >>> My wife's side of the family has a T2 that is 92 years old.
: > : >>> >So, as long as we watch ourselves, we will be fine. I think
: > : >>> >of it as a lifestyle, not as a disease. (Though I know of a guy
: > : >>> >who refused the restrictions and lost both legs then
: > : >>> >his life at age 52 or so. Don't remember the exact number.
: > : >>> >He must have really likes sweets and pizza.)
: > : >>> >
: > : >>> >-T
: > : >
: > : >> I know plenty of diabetics who eat pizza and sweets. Not saying that
: > : >> it's
: > : >> right. Or wrong or whatever. Still doesn't mean that we'll lose a
: > limb.
: > : >
: > : > I talked to a T2 yesterday. He told me he could not put up
: > : > with the restrictions, so he went on insulin. Seems to
: > : > be working well for him, if you ignore his two artificial
: > : > legs and his heart attack. Very dis-hearting. I suspect the
: > : > wild BG swings and the insulin itself (too much is toxic) may
: > : > be to account. Yikes! Thank you not, I will keep my feet.
: > : > I am rather fond of them.
: >
: > : What do you mean by restrictions? And what does insulin have to do with
: > : anything? Some people need it. Doesn't mean that they've failed at
: > : anything.
: >
: > Some popoe don't tyr to control their diabetes or don't want to try so
: > they think that by taking insulin they cna eat anything they want. As you
: > know, this is not true. Many need insulin, but others prefer to use it
: > than to try to control teir disese any other way. this is not your case
: > and no one is accusing you.

: Yes, it certainly isn't true. It also isn't true that just because a person
: doesn't eat a low carb diet that they will lose limbs.


Nothing is certain in any disease. Lots of very fat people never get tye
2 diabetes, but the liklihood is higher if you are fat. Not all
uncontrolled diabetics lose limbs, but in general well controlled ones
don't and there is a higer liklihood of losing one if uncotrolled.

living uncotrolled may or may not give you terrible problems, but tempting
fate by not trying to controll is foolishness and increases the liklihood
that you will get complications like vision problems, blindness, loss of
limbs cardio cascular diseases, etc. Nothing is guarannteed and until you
get a side effect you don't have it. Gastroparesis , actually a form of
neuropathy, is considered a complication of diabetes too that, as Julie
can testify, is not something you want to food with.

Wendy