Re: Diet, testing, and DA

Chris J. wrote:

I'd have to strongly disagree with them on that. I landed in hospital
with a massive infection due to diabetes (undiagnosed). I've also seen
evidence that plenty of T-2's suffer enough damage pre-diagnosis that
they have Neuropathy, and it's complications, in fairly short order. 


Chris,

I spent almost a decade battling infections that would not heal due to undiagnosed diabetes. My problem was that I wasn't fat so the only diabetes test any doctor gave me was the ADA-sanctioned fasting glucose test.

Unfortunately, research has shown that for about half of older women, the fasting glucose stays normal for many years after diabetic levels are being reached at every meal. In my case that was enough to turn my body into a playground for urinary-tract bacteria and fungi of all types.

My failure to be diagnosed is what got me looking at the question of why the ADA diagnostic criteria were set at the levels they were set at. Imagine my shock to discover that they had been set INTENTIONALLY high to keep people from being diagnosed until they were on the verge of blindness.

So it is no surprise to me that near half of all people initially diagnosed with diabetes already have irreversible neuropathy (a "mild" complication in the mind of the experts at the ADA who set the standards.)

If you haven't done so, take the time to read http://www.geocities.com/lottadata4u/misdiagnosis.htm

Contrary to what people here who don't bother to read might tell you, it isn't conspiracy theory speculation. It is hard quotes from the publications in which the ADA experts explain how and why they set the standards for diagnosis intentionally high.
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