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Wow, that is impressive! I would love to be that controlled!
Speaking as a T1, it certainly helped me get mine below 42. I'll let @Brunneria answer that from a reactive hypoglycaemic perspective...!Hi Brun,
Do you feel this is tool to get your Hba1c below 42?
regards
D.
Excellent results btw
Hi Brun,
Do you feel this is tool to get your Hba1c below 42?
regards
D.
Excellent results btw
The mince pies have landed.
They are from our local butchers, and they are sublime.
Pastry base. Good quality mincemeat. Crumble topping.
Astonishingly good.
They keep looking at me.
But I am going to ignore them today.
Maybe have 2 tomorrow. The other 4 will disappear into Mr B so fast they don't hit the sides.
Hope, they are worth it!
Hope it's all for scientific research!
You'n'me both, if I read my Codefree right, although the Libre might say different, as you point out. I'm on the waiting list to get in the queue for one, I think. Well done so far."What I have is a minimum comfortable bg of about 5.2 (which is higher than I would like, but nothing seems to shift it lower) and then I scoot around in the 6s nearly all day, and blip up to the 7s for maybe half an hour after any carbs at all.
Thank you for "taking one for the team" on those horrible mince piesOf course noshy. I'm doing it for all of you. Selfless to the core, that's me!
You'n'me both, if I read my Codefree right, although the Libre might say different, as you point out. I'm on the waiting list to get in the queue for one, I think. Well done so far.
No, but I think of myself as a TOFI (thin outside, fat inside in the important little places, like embracing my pancreas in a bear hug perhaps) which might add up to the same thing?I am obese, with significant insulin resistance.
But you aren't, are you
I want a normal HbA1c. Comfortably and consistently below Pre-D. That is my goal.
Actually, I need to update my sig. At the mo the comment says something like 'my A1c is 42 which, considering my DP is OK'
The Libre has taught me differently. I don't have a big DP, what I have is a minimum comfortable bg of about 5.2 (which is higher than I would like, but nothing seems to shift it lower) and then I scoot around in the 6s nearly all day, and blip up to the 7s for maybe half an hour after any carbs at all. That is a narrow window, but it seems to work for me.
But to answer your question, YES, I think the Libre is the best tool I have come across to get my A1c lower.
With a couple of provisos.
Firstly, sensor accuracy. This way of eating that I am doing hasn't changed in months, except for the couple of 'tests' I have done (burger, chips and digestives). The Libre is telling me that based on the last week, my projected A1c is around 35.
Yet my last actual A1c was 42.
So quite a discrepency there. Which is the second proviso. Could be any number of reasons. Maybe I am a fast glycator. Maybe a touch anaemia (not likely!), or maybe the tests don't match because of test or sensor innaccuracy.
Shrug.
I think all you (I) can do is say the lower the better, and then do my best!
@Brunneria maybe you just have physiological insulin resistance so your muscles do not consume the glucose.