T2 is reversible

[skb]

When will they ever learn. They still maintain that T2 is reversible with weight loss.

http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j4030

[rocky]

Go back to eating your old way again and it'll all return.
When a medical journal publishes that kind of research, people will believe it, and that is scary.

[bigskygal]

Geesh, just like my fool pcp. I am not cured, I am well controlled through lc/hf sometimes keto. Have kind of slipped out of keto but #'s still OK.

[walkerwally1]

I don't think that they will learn, at least not in my lifetime. 
I was pleased when my current doctor gave me a prescription for test strips for testing 4 times a day.  Medicare covered that and only asked for me to provide my doctor a log showing that I actually tested at least 4 times a day.  A few months ago my prescription changed to 2 times a day and I was mad at my doctor but when I asked her about it she said that Medicare changed it because of my A1c.  Now when I tried to refill the prescription Medicare balked at 2 times a day and my doctor had to send documentation before they would approve it.  The fact that you are achieving your low A1c by testing more often than the once a day they deem adequate means nothing to them.  OTOH my doctor says she has a hard time getting some of her T1 diabetics to test more than once a day.  I'm afraid there are not enough people that are trying to control their bg and they are not given any education on how to do it.  Just take the pill.

[bigskygal]

Exactly Wally! That is why I am so glad I don't have to go through Medicare for my meds/strips.

[rocky]

I never looked at it from the Insurance angle. Maybe, just maybe, the Insurance companies deliberately give a boost to these studies so that the doctors can withdraw the insurance cover on med supplies. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it's worth a thought.