In January 2011, I was admitted to the hospital in a car accident and was diagnosed with prediabetes due to elevated blood sugar and poor islet function.
At that time, the doctor asked me to adjust my diet, and I began to eat multigrain paste, not knowing that the paste is easy to digest and the blood sugar rises high and fast. As a result, by chance, the blood sugar 2 hours after the meal was detected to be as high as 13.4mmol/L!
Immediately afterwards, he went to the hospital for examination and did a glucose C-peptide release test, and found that the function of pancreatic islets was severely impaired. In just 4 months, I have progressed from prediabetes to diabetes.
In 2011, I was diagnosed with diabetes at Ganyu County People's Hospital
I have been suffering from diabetes for 13 years now, but with continuous treatment, my pancreatic islet function has been restored!
Today, I would like to share with you a story about my experience of repairing pancreatic islet function.
The process, while challenging, ultimately brought me hope and health.
1. Listen to the doctor and follow the doctor's instructions!
After I was diagnosed with diabetes, I followed the doctor's instructions to take acarbose for three months, but the results were not satisfactory, and the attending physician asked me to take insulin.
To be honest, when I first heard about insulin, I was very resistant and asked if I could take a variety of hypoglycemic drugs to see the effect.
On the one hand, no one is not afraid of injections, and I am no exception, I have been afraid of injections since I was a child; On the other hand, I was afraid that I would take insulin for the rest of my life. I want to put it off a little longer to see if I can take hypoglycemic drugs to lower it, but I really can't take insulin again.
But the attending physician told me that taking insulin can not only repair the function of pancreatic islets, but also delay the onset and progression of complications.
The attending physician patiently analyzed my condition, saying that my pancreatic islet function was very poor and I had to take insulin, as evidenced by the fact that my blood sugar did not meet the standard after taking acarbose for three months.
I reluctantly agreed to take insulin.
At the beginning, I took short-acting human insulin, but after treatment, the function of pancreatic islets was greatly repaired, and I ushered in my first "honeymoon period" a year later.
Later, due to the increase in fasting and postprandial blood sugar due to surgical stress, the doctor used "one long and three short" intensive insulin therapy, that is, one injection of long-acting insulin every night before bedtime, and one injection of short-acting human insulin before three meals.
Then, in 2013, the second "honeymoon period" finally ushered in, which has lasted until now, and the drug was successfully stopped!
2. Strictly control your diet and exercise regularly!
Whether it's during insulin therapy or during the "honeymoon period", I have a strict diet and regular exercise every day.
The staple food is dry rice or cakes with a mix of thickness and thickness, and the order of eating is adjusted to: vegetable-protein-fat-staple food.
As time goes on and the seasons change, I also change the amount of staple food: as the temperature rises, the amount of staple food increases; Temperatures are lower, and the amount of staple food is reduced.
Since I started pre-diabetic, I have developed my own unique exercise habits and forms of exercise.
After three meals a day, after doing housework, start exercising, about 20~30 minutes each time, about 1 hour a day, in the form of health exercises, radio exercises, rejuvenation exercises, acupoint exercises, hypoglycemic exercises, aerobics, etc.
As a result, my second "honeymoon period" has continued to this day, and my blood sugar has remained stable and rarely exceeded the standard without any medication. Fasting blood glucose is consistently below 5.5 and postprandial blood glucose is stable below 7.7.
3. Monitor your blood sugar regularly!
During my insulin injections, I monitored my blood sugar every day as instructed by my doctor.
After stopping insulin and not taking oral hypoglycemic drugs, I began to measure blood glucose four times a day (1 fasting blood glucose, 3 postprandial blood glucose) every 5~7 days, and glycosylated hemoglobin every 3~6 months.
Over the years, my glycosylated hemoglobin test value has been between 4.5%~5.6%.
In 2022, out of concern that the "honeymoon period" was no longer over, and to evaluate the function of pancreatic islets, I did a glucose C-peptide release test again, and the results were satisfactory (as shown below).
My islet function has really been repaired. This makes me thank my attending physician from the bottom of my heart, thanks to insulin.
So, I want to say to:
Be sure to listen to the doctor's words for treatment, don't worry about insulin addiction or addiction, there is no such thing as "once you use it, you will use it for a lifetime".
In the long run, even if you can't completely restore the insulin function, you can easily control blood sugar and prevent diabetes complications.
As long as we work hard, I believe we will be able to see the dawn of hope!
Author: Yang Zhaochun