That’s starting to change, getting better all the time.
I also have T2 diabetes. I know how terrifying it makes you feel. Like as if every day is your last.
T2D is reversible, or at least you can put it into remission, don’t listen to your doctor if he says it’s a progressive disease, it’s a very profitable disease!
The ultimate low carb diet, carnivore diet, but stay away from carbs, or it will raise the saturated fat in the blood.
He wants me to take jardiance and Novolog shots. (I cannot handle long-lasting insulin like Lantus, Tresiba, etc…) . But He’s still better than 98% of endo doctors I’ve seen in the past.
How can you live with T2D and still keep hope alive and keep waking up every day?
You must have a very loving family.
Jardiance decreases vitamin D, iron and vitamin B12 in some people. Jardiance crushed my B12 and vitamin D.
Jardiance also increases parathyroid hormone, which increases calcium absorption. The last thing you want is calcification in your joints and arteries. My transient increase in parathyroid hormone was anything but temporary.
Jardiance also causes dehydration, which for anyone on TRT means higher hematocrit and hemoglobin. This was the main reason why I was forced into monthly phlebotomies!
I’m allergic to all types of insulin, and have a very bad reaction to all T2D drugs. The majority crush my potassium levels no amount of supplementation can fix.
absolutely! i was on the path to T2D. my a1c used to be 5.7, pre-diabetic. changed my diet, went mostly carnivore, it went down to 5.1
i also recommend doing regular fasting insulin levels. a much better metric of where you are going.
no fcking doc told ‘hey changed your diet i wont’ see you again’.
The American Diabetes Association receives millions in donations from major food, soda and drug manufacturers.
Can you imagine after receive million in donations, then you turn around and warn the public about all the chemicals, sugar in these foods. Donations will cease.
So much corruption in the USA.
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Thanks for your input on Jardiance! (Luckily, I never took it!)
Here’s what I learned from you (SystemLord) and this site about my hormone issues:
a.) Only use Intramuscular shots for T-cyp (SubQ will increase Estrogen and it will also increase T levels way too fast…TOO FAST!)
b.) You also said my vitamins basically render my blood test useless. I will inform my endo (who orders these blood tests) about these vitamins and about the Biotin that screws up hormone results - see if he has any ideas.
c.) I will stop using Pregnyl for at least a month… I will see if this makes any significant difference.
Be prepared that you endo may not know about biotin interference with hormonal lab testing.
If that turned out to be the case → Biotin supplements and laboratory test results in neuropsychiatric practice and research - PMC.
The liquid chromatography or mass spectrometry hormonal lab testing is immune to biotin supplementation.
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Okay. I really hope I don’t have to specially request “perrigo”-brand (Rx)Non-Compounded T-cypionate. Because it was truly the best.
So where do you get a monthly phlebotomy?
Kaiser, but earlier in this year a hematologist warned my endo to stop the monthly phlebotomies, even though at the time my hematocrit was 55-57%.
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My own General Practitioner refused to give me a single phlebotomy. I did go to my local hospital and made an appt. for next Wed. for a donation. (That’s what I was directed to do by the New York Blood center anyway).
Systemlord,
When you do some light exercise (like walking just a few miles)… Do you get that “Runner’s high”?
No, I didn’t get runners high. I never experienced it before. My GP’s usually don’t order phlebotomies, and are referred to endocrinologists and hematologists to order phlebotomies.
I can vouch for this. On Testosterone Monotherapy I have no libido or erectile function, irrespective of dose. Throw in some HCG and things start happening. Weird, as its not simply the ‘increase of Testosterone’ from the HCG, as I have tried higher amounts of T alone and it does nothing. Must be something that the HCG is doing specifically, but dont ask me what!
With all due respect, you need to spend more time learning about what you are doing. 200 mg/week for almost anyone is a very low dose cycle, not TRT. Not saying that’s a bad thing at all. You just need to understand what you are putting in your body. Lower your exogenous T, your E will come down.
And look at your T labs. You think that isn’t way over natural?
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Rationally for more than twice a week frequency please.
I don’t respond to twice weekly injections, this is not the case for daily and EOD. You have to do what works for you. The why isn’t as important.