Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

Debandez

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Type of diabetes
Type 2 (in remission!)
Treatment type
Diet only
5.5 this morning. Doing a little Irish jig to the loo! Out of the 6s that annoyed me over the past 2 weeks. Lots of walking yesterday and I drank more water. Not sure if that's why it's lower today and out of the 6s but I'm happy whatever the case.

I'm starting a letter (signed as a new member of the PPG) to my GP practices (2) today (for attention of all drs (@8) and DNs (4 that 'specialise') and paramedic practitioner (2) practice manager and her deputy. It feels like a criminal case to catch a murderer kind of letter! My story, updated to include the Birmingham event confirming it was very successful and why. It would appear from the feedback I received from the surgery via the practice manager that I'm the only patient EVER to have put my diabetes into remission apart from the post bariatric surgery patients (We are entitled to ask for stats if anyone else is thinking of doing this as it doesn't breach patient confidentiality, the results could be incredibly interesting). I was shocked to the core but I'm not surprised nobody else has to be honest as they are all obviously following the progressive disease guidelines and nobody has questioned anything or looked to Google as I did. I'm going to include the Inspirational Stories booklet (this is so powerful and if anyone else would like their own journey included it's an ongoing thing, I will just keep sending them to DCUK who are redesigning our booklet), 100 stone lost and kicked diabetes' butt leaflet (the reductions in weight and HbA1c levels are astounding) and the blood sugar leaflet (as they obviously don't know how important testing is to diabetics!). I'm also printing off Dr David Unwins paper and confirmation of his last award. No 9 on the list of 50 most influential gp's. As a low carb advocate he has saved his practice 57k in just one year, and helped so many patients lower their HbA1c levels. I will see what their response is. It will also be interesting to see what comes out of our event from the PR perspective. I have lots of ideas on who to send our story to but just need to wait to see how DCUK get on first. One of them is fellow diabetic Teresa May although i think she has quite enough on her plate at the moment (but is it low carb!?). Ideas in the pot welcomed. My ultimate plan is for us to be sitting next to Holly Willoughby on that sofa ' move up Holly there's a few of us!'!!! Shoot for the moon and all that.

Yesterday along with doing a TripAdvisor review of Jamie's Italian I wrote a long email to Hannah our amazing waitress on the night. I'm going to write to Jamie himself (although I did ask Hannah to forward hers to him as it was not only thanking them for meeting our dietary needs so well but it made suggestions re including low carb desserts into his menus.



Sun's out here on the north west coast. I'm taking my dear old friend for lunch. 89 years young and sadly losing her memory significantly. She has told me all her stories many times but I have the look of surprise down to a fine art. We always have a lovely time.

Have a good day folks.

That's my 'very low chat' level post folks :)
 

jayney27

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Messages
1,643
Type of diabetes
Type 2 (in remission!)
Treatment type
Diet only
5.5 this morning. Doing a little Irish jig to the loo! Out of the 6s that annoyed me over the past 2 weeks. Lots of walking yesterday and I drank more water. Not sure if that's why it's lower today and out of the 6s but I'm happy whatever the case.

I'm starting a letter (signed as a new member of the PPG) to my GP practices (2) today (for attention of all drs (@8) and DNs (4 that 'specialise') and paramedic practitioner (2) practice manager and her deputy. It feels like a criminal case to catch a murderer kind of letter! My story, updated to include the Birmingham event confirming it was very successful and why. It would appear from the feedback I received from the surgery via the practice manager that I'm the only patient EVER to have put my diabetes into remission apart from the post bariatric surgery patients (We are entitled to ask for stats if anyone else is thinking of doing this as it doesn't breach patient confidentiality, the results could be incredibly interesting). I was shocked to the core but I'm not surprised nobody else has to be honest as they are all obviously following the progressive disease guidelines and nobody has questioned anything or looked to Google as I did. I'm going to include the Inspirational Stories booklet (this is so powerful and if anyone else would like their own journey included it's an ongoing thing, I will just keep sending them to DCUK who are redesigning our booklet), 100 stone lost and kicked diabetes' butt leaflet (the reductions in weight and HbA1c levels are astounding) and the blood sugar leaflet (as they obviously don't know how important testing is to diabetics!). I'm also printing off Dr David Unwins paper and confirmation of his last award. No 9 on the list of 50 most influential gp's. As a low carb advocate he has saved his practice 57k in just one year, and helped so many patients lower their HbA1c levels. I will see what their response is. It will also be interesting to see what comes out of our event from the PR perspective. I have lots of ideas on who to send our story to but just need to wait to see how DCUK get on first. One of them is fellow diabetic Teresa May although i think she has quite enough on her plate at the moment (but is it low carb!?). Ideas in the pot welcomed. My ultimate plan is for us to be sitting next to Holly Willoughby on that sofa ' move up Holly there's a few of us!'!!! Shoot for the moon and all that.

Yesterday along with doing a TripAdvisor review of Jamie's Italian I wrote a long email to Hannah our amazing waitress on the night. I'm going to write to Jamie himself (although I did ask Hannah to forward hers to him as it was not only thanking them for meeting our dietary needs so well but it made suggestions re including low carb desserts into his menus.



Sun's out here on the north west coast. I'm taking my dear old friend for lunch. 89 years young and sadly losing her memory significantly. She has told me all her stories many times but I have the look of surprise down to a fine art. We always have a lovely time.

Have a good day folks.

That's my 'very low chat' level post folks :)
I love your low level chat post, you are doing an amazing job keep up the good work xx
 
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JanetMcDowell

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5.1 this morning. Had diabetic review yesterday. All good. BP decided to do the white coat thing and went up. Was going to take me off the diabetic register but said since I had BDR in one eye I still wanted it done. So no need for a monitor but explained I could not of reversed my diabetes without it. Anyway happy that all was well.