Noshy, your blog is AWESOME.
Thank you for sharing it.
Nice post, very encouragingJust had my latest appointment with my specialist endocrinologist.
Good news. Really pleased with my lifestyle and how the treatment is working. BP normal, lost just over another stone since August I was 13st 3lb, now 12st 1lb.
He does want me to lose another 2 stone to avoid becoming diabetic and any complications.
Got to have more tests another OGTTS next month to see how my pancreas and insulin are doing. This will be a five hour test. Bloods done at the same time and sent to lab in London for investigation, last time nothing unusual. This includes c-peptide and others.
He told that I'm the first person with RH to be prescribed sitagliptin and because of the good results, he has started prescribing for another patient with Late RH. Who has more complications. But it also working for her!
There was some bad news. My consultant is leaving my hospital and going to practice in Manchester. I'm going to discuss it with my GP to see if I could still be seen by him. Which obviously I would like to. Simply because he has given me my life back. I owe him so much.
Notwithstanding the wonderful helpful posters on this forum who have given me such really great advice on everything.
Thank you all so much!
Had a letter from my consultant this morning,
I will post it word for word,
The names have been omitted to protect the innocent!!!!
Dear Mr Nosher,
Thank you for getting your bloods checked. Your haemoglobin A1c which is the average glucose measurement was 32mmol/mol which is very good. Your thyroid function tests were normal and total cholesterol was 4.8, triglycerides 0.8, HDL 1.42, LDL 3.0mmol/l which are acceptable. I will request your GP to do a cardio-vascular risk scoring and if that indicates that you need to be on a statin to get the cholesterol levels down he will be able to prescribe you that.
The other bloods are fine including your liver function tests and calcium levels. Hence I will advise you to continue on the sitagliptin that you are doing and see you back in the clinic in 6 months as planned.
Kind regards.
Etc.
How does that sound my friends?
Hi @nosher8355In response to a telephone conversation with my GP. I have been advised to start taking a statin as my risk score is double what it should be!
Don't know if I want to!
Anyone comment please!
I think I will speak to my doctor again, I don't think I'm already to take them yet. So much is going well at the moment, that I don't need the implications and complications of statins. I've done a lot of researching today, and I am more than certain that in ketosis, you don't need statins, as they affect the muscle tissue that is so important to my health.I took statins once for a month or two and I had side effects (muscle weakness). After I spent an entire weekend laying down as I didn't have the strength to be up I stopped taking them. It seemed like it was a few years before I felt close to normal again. I still wonder if the statins were a factor in me getting type 2.
Last year a doctor told me I needed to take statins to lower my cholesterol. Interestingly, it was only after I told her that I had been prescribed metformin by my previous doctor that she suddenly realized that I had had type 2 diabetes, since my blood tests showed non-diabetic blood glucose levels. I told her I wouldn't take statins, so she prescribed a non-statin cholesterol lowering drug. I had no intention of taking this new drug, but I looked it up on-line and found out that it does indeed lower cholesterol, but clinical trials had shown no reduction in cardiovascular events or reduction in risk of premature death. Eventually I saw a doctor that specializes in type 2 diabetes and he said I didn't need any drugs of any kind.
Anyway, according to conventional/current understanding of blood cholesterol levels, your numbers are excellent (supposedly better than mine):
Total <5
LDL <3
HDL >1
http://www.benecol.co.uk/cholesterol/understanding-your-number
The official recommendations are lower for type 2 diabetics, but you don't have diabetes.