food intolerances and diabetes

I've been diagnosed T2D for 16 years.I subscribed to “Balance” soon after, so my experience of DUK & its dietary recommendations goes back a long time also. 

I haven't seen a significant change in the DUK printed information, which I consider to be unhelpful in the control of diabetes.

At diagnosis I was given the complex carbohydrate, low fat/sugar/salt diet that is still currently recommended. Also I was warned of all the expected complications, & told that diabetes was progressive however well I complied with the diet – which newly diagnosed patients are still being told.

Some complications were rapidly evident – extreme tiredness – while the peripheral neuropathy I was diagnosed with took just 8 years to become crippling. Beginning of retinopathy & reduced kidney function were also happening. 

My active life was over. Getting out of bed took 5 minutes.

Advice from a T1 contributor to the diabetes.co.uk/forum led me to give up all obvious carbohydrates, & my health improved rapidly. THREE months & I was out of pain & playing tennis again. A further 8 years of LCHF & I am still fit & well, free from complications, & playing tennis at club standard at 77.

My HbA1c is  6.6%.