I answered a newbie on another board who had just been diagnosed, mentioning that I knew many people who had been diagnosed with blood sugars far worse than hers who had been able to get completely normal blood sugars.
The lady wrote back that reading that message had made her burst into tears which had not happened even when she'd gotten her diagnosis.
Only when she could believe it wasn't a sentence of death, or blindness, or amputation, could she begin to think about this huge change in her life!
With that in mind, I spent the day combing through 5 years of newsgroup messages, looking for inspirational tales. I've extracted excerpts from postings where people have reported that they have managed to get back to normal blood sugars often from very high initial numbers. (Normal in this case is defined as having an A1c of under 6%, or what people in the alt.support.diabetes newsgroup used to call "The 5% Club.")
The people quoted in these messages have used a variety of techniques to get to normal numbers, cutting carbs, testing blood sugar after meals, medications, exercise, and insulin. What they have in common is that they got there.
Here's the link to some of these stories. If you've been needed some inspiration I hope you'll find it here. And if you have an inspiring story of your own, please let me hear it!
http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/16535158.php - The Five Percent Club
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