well tried to make an appointment to see my Dr today but he was booked out.
Anyway i said to the receptionist i wanted to know what my HbA1c is??
Everyone else on this forum knows theres i said to her and she passed the message onto the doctor
I received an email saying my HbA1c is 9.2
Its not good is it ,please dont hide it from me ,its not a great result is it
Don't worry too much, you can soon bring that down with weightloss and amazing changes to your diet using your blood glucose meter to guide you.
I was diagnosed on 27th April this year 7 weeks ago, and since then have been doing the Low Carb High Fat diet, and have been experimenting with intermittent fasting to lower my blood sugar further after getting good results with that and easting 2 meals a day. For the last 10 days I have been only eating when my blood sugar was in a target range that I made progressively lower, and according to the mySugr app estimated HbA1c have lowered it considerably:
Start HbA1c 27th April:
82 - converts to 9.65%
Start of intermittent fasting eating to meter:
estimated HbA1c mySugr:
41.9 - converts to 6.0%
Today after 10 days of intermittent fasting and eating one meal a day:
estimated HbA1c mySugr:
39.4 - converts to 5.8%
I had higher results than you at the start, but as you can see it is possible to make a big reduction if you use your blood sugar meter to test your reactions to different foods, and make changes to your diet. I have also used exercise, but there are lots of people who do not use exercise as part of their lifestyle who still get good results too. I am due another HbA1c at the beginning of August this year, so it will be very interesting to see where I am then.
I am doing daily updates of my progress with stats if you are interested in what I am eating and the effects. I will stress that everyone seems to react differently to different foods, so it is very much of seeing what works for you and devising your own way of eating that helps you control your blood sugar and bring it down.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/type-2-fasting-experiment-to-lower-bg.149942/
I will also say that with paying close attention to my diet and regular testing I have lost 35lb so far (I have a lot to lose) and feel like a much younger and far fitter version of the person I was 7 weeks ago. I am still shocked at how ill I felt before diagnosis with uncontrolled blood sugars.
You will get lots of support on here, and many people have been exactly where you are or even worse and made huge improvements to their blood sugar control. You can do it, and you seem to have a great attitude so far of wanting to change and get healthier.