Sorry if this seems a bit weird, but I am coming up six months into diagnosis, and things seem to be going well. My HbA1c was 98 in late Feb brought down to 47 in mid June with my metformin dose halved at that point and if I carry on with good progress come off completely next month when tested again.
I started off at 16 stone 3 and weigh myself each Monday morning, set myself a target of 13 stone which I reached last week after 24 weeks and lost another 2lbs during the last week so now 12stone 12. First time I have weighed 12 something since the 1990's. I have changed my diet, mainly cutting out snacks and a few minor tweaks and exercise a bit more than I did.
I know I will have to wait and see what my HbA1c is next month but going by my own testing should be fine, as can count on fingers of one hand how many times I have exceeded 8.5 since the last test. One of them down to three things stressing me out at the same time rather than food, one had a cold which seemed to raise my level and once went out for an Indian for first time since diagnosis and pretty sure I know which element caused me to reach 10.4 so know what to avoid in future.
I regularly seem to be 4s and 5s before meals including overnight. Generally 6s and 7s and rarely low 8s after. That is good you are all saying and it is. I do know through testing what spikes me but they don't seem to be the things a number seem to tell newbies to avoid. Accepted there is also advice to say to learn what causes you to spike and avoid but for example I eat weetabix and three days a week end up falling back by .5 on it and when I do go up never by more than 1. I am also fine on granary and wholemeal bread(7.2 2 hours after my lunch todayof two granary rolls). I still eat rice pasta and and potatoes, albeit lesser portions than pre diagnosis without any apparent ill effects on my BG. I am still getting the same pattern of results currently that I got before my last hbA1c of 47, so it seems to me although I feel I am doing things right for me given the apparent results, the way some seem to word their advice to newbies, you can't have this or that rather than finding out what affects you as some do is unnerving me somewhat.Appreciate that they are saying what affects them and they are right to do so, but as I say unnerving me as I do not seem to be affected in the same way at the moment. Only last week I had a meal which contained in theory 80g of carbs, 5.7 beforehand 6.3 two hours later. the way some people go on here I should be way over the 8.5 all the time and yet I am not.
Am I an oddball, or proof that we are all beggared up to different levels insulin wise with our type 2, (for want of a better expression), and need to find our own tolerances of carbs and what is right for one is not neccesarily right for another?
I started off at 16 stone 3 and weigh myself each Monday morning, set myself a target of 13 stone which I reached last week after 24 weeks and lost another 2lbs during the last week so now 12stone 12. First time I have weighed 12 something since the 1990's. I have changed my diet, mainly cutting out snacks and a few minor tweaks and exercise a bit more than I did.
I know I will have to wait and see what my HbA1c is next month but going by my own testing should be fine, as can count on fingers of one hand how many times I have exceeded 8.5 since the last test. One of them down to three things stressing me out at the same time rather than food, one had a cold which seemed to raise my level and once went out for an Indian for first time since diagnosis and pretty sure I know which element caused me to reach 10.4 so know what to avoid in future.
I regularly seem to be 4s and 5s before meals including overnight. Generally 6s and 7s and rarely low 8s after. That is good you are all saying and it is. I do know through testing what spikes me but they don't seem to be the things a number seem to tell newbies to avoid. Accepted there is also advice to say to learn what causes you to spike and avoid but for example I eat weetabix and three days a week end up falling back by .5 on it and when I do go up never by more than 1. I am also fine on granary and wholemeal bread(7.2 2 hours after my lunch todayof two granary rolls). I still eat rice pasta and and potatoes, albeit lesser portions than pre diagnosis without any apparent ill effects on my BG. I am still getting the same pattern of results currently that I got before my last hbA1c of 47, so it seems to me although I feel I am doing things right for me given the apparent results, the way some seem to word their advice to newbies, you can't have this or that rather than finding out what affects you as some do is unnerving me somewhat.Appreciate that they are saying what affects them and they are right to do so, but as I say unnerving me as I do not seem to be affected in the same way at the moment. Only last week I had a meal which contained in theory 80g of carbs, 5.7 beforehand 6.3 two hours later. the way some people go on here I should be way over the 8.5 all the time and yet I am not.
Am I an oddball, or proof that we are all beggared up to different levels insulin wise with our type 2, (for want of a better expression), and need to find our own tolerances of carbs and what is right for one is not neccesarily right for another?
