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<blockquote data-quote="PDR" data-source="post: 1824224" data-attributes="member: 472992"><p>So now it's nearly a couple of months downstream, and so I thought I'd update this. My graph now looks like this:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]27346[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Ignore the "date" numbers (I've been trying to make excel display the dates properly but it's refused and is now sulking). Each vertical gridline is a day, and the days are counted from april 21st to today. The two dashed red lines are the +/-3SD boundaries because I'm an engineer and I can't see any data without trying to process and stratify it - you can ignore these as well. But the general picture the numbers paint seems reasonably good (ie consistent). </p><p></p><p>I'm taking one metformin twice a day (with my morning coffee and before supper) plus a gliclazide before lunch and supper. I'm hoping I'll soon be dropping the glic because on the odd occasion when I've forgotten to have them with me my numbers seem to remain the same. I will be discussing this with the doc in a couple of weeks. Two months ago my HBA1C was a scary 140ish, but last week it was back to 58. Looking at my graphs that number probably includes about 3-4 weeks before I had the bg under control, so hopefully my next one should be even lower.</p><p></p><p>On the diet side I'm essentially trying the zero carbs/zero sugar approach. I may have the odd fragment of bread when it's served with soup or pate, and I will admit that I have about a tablespoon of oppo vanilla ice cream per week, but that's about it. I drink quite a lot of coke zero (cherry or vanilla) as my one sweet thing, and I have half a teaspoon of fructose in my (black, real) coffee once or twice a day.</p><p></p><p>But the bulk of my food is salads with meat, salmon and/or cheese when I'm away from home and if I need to graze it's either dry-roasted peanuts or almonds. If you remember I live away from home for most of the week. I solved the lunch problem by discovering a nearby sandwich bar who do a wonderful range of salad boxes.</p><p></p><p>When I'm at home I experiment with recipes that my wife and daughter can have rice/spuds/pasta with, but I have without. I've invented a "chicken-breast escalope with cheese and asparagus under a tomato & basil sauce" thing which seems to go down well, and tonight it's a pan-fried/braised chicken breasts in red wine and mushrooms thing which I hope will work.</p><p></p><p>How do I feel? Well my eyes have finally settled down without a change of glasses (yee-ha!), and I've lost 2 stone in the last 3 months. But I still often feel lethargic, especially after exercise or exertion, which is disappointing. I'm also having more migraines (the vision-disturbance only, thank <insert preferred deity here>) than I used to. I've always been prone to them, but usually only got 2-3 a year and so having six in the last ten days is definitely a change. I also seem to be having vivid dreams (not all about chocolate, cake, doorstep cheese& pickle sandwiches etc) - are any of these meds known for being psycho-active?</p><p></p><p>But I guess the real upside is that I haven't had a stroke or heart attack, and nor have any sundry limbs or appendages fallen off. I also had my eyes checked by the company aviation medic, and she's restored my class 1 medical so I'm allowed to fly again if I want to.</p><p></p><p>So some good, some less so, but mainly good. The zero-carb, zero-sugar thing seems to work for me, although I appreciate it doesn't work for everyone.</p><p></p><p>€0.00003 supplied,</p><p></p><p>PDR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PDR, post: 1824224, member: 472992"] So now it's nearly a couple of months downstream, and so I thought I'd update this. My graph now looks like this: [ATTACH=full]27346[/ATTACH] Ignore the "date" numbers (I've been trying to make excel display the dates properly but it's refused and is now sulking). Each vertical gridline is a day, and the days are counted from april 21st to today. The two dashed red lines are the +/-3SD boundaries because I'm an engineer and I can't see any data without trying to process and stratify it - you can ignore these as well. But the general picture the numbers paint seems reasonably good (ie consistent). I'm taking one metformin twice a day (with my morning coffee and before supper) plus a gliclazide before lunch and supper. I'm hoping I'll soon be dropping the glic because on the odd occasion when I've forgotten to have them with me my numbers seem to remain the same. I will be discussing this with the doc in a couple of weeks. Two months ago my HBA1C was a scary 140ish, but last week it was back to 58. Looking at my graphs that number probably includes about 3-4 weeks before I had the bg under control, so hopefully my next one should be even lower. On the diet side I'm essentially trying the zero carbs/zero sugar approach. I may have the odd fragment of bread when it's served with soup or pate, and I will admit that I have about a tablespoon of oppo vanilla ice cream per week, but that's about it. I drink quite a lot of coke zero (cherry or vanilla) as my one sweet thing, and I have half a teaspoon of fructose in my (black, real) coffee once or twice a day. But the bulk of my food is salads with meat, salmon and/or cheese when I'm away from home and if I need to graze it's either dry-roasted peanuts or almonds. If you remember I live away from home for most of the week. I solved the lunch problem by discovering a nearby sandwich bar who do a wonderful range of salad boxes. When I'm at home I experiment with recipes that my wife and daughter can have rice/spuds/pasta with, but I have without. I've invented a "chicken-breast escalope with cheese and asparagus under a tomato & basil sauce" thing which seems to go down well, and tonight it's a pan-fried/braised chicken breasts in red wine and mushrooms thing which I hope will work. How do I feel? Well my eyes have finally settled down without a change of glasses (yee-ha!), and I've lost 2 stone in the last 3 months. But I still often feel lethargic, especially after exercise or exertion, which is disappointing. I'm also having more migraines (the vision-disturbance only, thank <insert preferred deity here>) than I used to. I've always been prone to them, but usually only got 2-3 a year and so having six in the last ten days is definitely a change. I also seem to be having vivid dreams (not all about chocolate, cake, doorstep cheese& pickle sandwiches etc) - are any of these meds known for being psycho-active? But I guess the real upside is that I haven't had a stroke or heart attack, and nor have any sundry limbs or appendages fallen off. I also had my eyes checked by the company aviation medic, and she's restored my class 1 medical so I'm allowed to fly again if I want to. So some good, some less so, but mainly good. The zero-carb, zero-sugar thing seems to work for me, although I appreciate it doesn't work for everyone. €0.00003 supplied, PDR [/QUOTE]
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