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<blockquote data-quote="Dackba" data-source="post: 320461" data-attributes="member: 50345"><p>For the past 2 months I've had various blood tests and in early August I persuaded the doctor to do a blood glucose test, he said as there was no history of diabetes in the family it would be negative. I got the results mid August and was told the fasting BLG was 9 & I should have another test with glucose consumption to make sure. Due to holidays this second test took place in early September & the results were given by the doctor in mid September, the fasting was down to 8.7 but two hours after drinking the glucose it was 14.9. So diabetic type 2. Today over two months after the first blood sample I was added to the clinics diabetic register. </p><p></p><p>I did get the results of my last blood sample which was for HBA1c and this came out as 56 mmols/mol which I had to look up on this website to understand. A three monthly average of 7.27% apparently. Still not totally sure what all this means yet. I had already made changes to my diet as I discovered I am gluten intolerant so gave up bread and all the flour stuffs, and cut back on potatoes etc back in August. I have lost over a stone in weight, climbed countless mountains throughout the UK & started to do a bit of jogging with the dog when no one is looking!</p><p></p><p>The other issue is that the blood pressure has been consistently high since May so that is being looked at next week. The clinic today did a few tests and signed me up for a DESMOND - diabetes education course - is this any good? I also get a session with the dietician which will be interesting for a vegetarian gluten intolerant diabetic!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dackba, post: 320461, member: 50345"] For the past 2 months I've had various blood tests and in early August I persuaded the doctor to do a blood glucose test, he said as there was no history of diabetes in the family it would be negative. I got the results mid August and was told the fasting BLG was 9 & I should have another test with glucose consumption to make sure. Due to holidays this second test took place in early September & the results were given by the doctor in mid September, the fasting was down to 8.7 but two hours after drinking the glucose it was 14.9. So diabetic type 2. Today over two months after the first blood sample I was added to the clinics diabetic register. I did get the results of my last blood sample which was for HBA1c and this came out as 56 mmols/mol which I had to look up on this website to understand. A three monthly average of 7.27% apparently. Still not totally sure what all this means yet. I had already made changes to my diet as I discovered I am gluten intolerant so gave up bread and all the flour stuffs, and cut back on potatoes etc back in August. I have lost over a stone in weight, climbed countless mountains throughout the UK & started to do a bit of jogging with the dog when no one is looking! The other issue is that the blood pressure has been consistently high since May so that is being looked at next week. The clinic today did a few tests and signed me up for a DESMOND - diabetes education course - is this any good? I also get a session with the dietician which will be interesting for a vegetarian gluten intolerant diabetic! [/QUOTE]
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