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Hey guys,
I had my first follow up with the DN yesterday. I got my first HbA1c done since diagnosis and have previously posted about a great result; 85 to 41 in three months and lost just shy of 3 stone. All LCHF and exercise. I got my results over the phone as DN was on holiday and so this is the first time I’ve seen her since the result.
She was happy enough with my result but within 5 minutes of sitting down I got the following:
‘Your blood pressure has come down along with your sugars and your cholesterol is mostly the same as last time. So I don’t think you need a statins just yet’.
I asked what she meant by ‘yet’ given that my levels are all in normal ranges, to which she replied:
‘You definitely will need statins at some point because you’re high risk. So it’s just a matter of when. I mean if you kept losing weight and kept your sugars down and your cholesterol was more normal then I don’t know. But let’s assume you will need them, just not now’.
I left feeling pretty deflated. Obviously managing my diabetes is a life long thing regardless of my numbers but it felt like she had to put something on the agenda. Stress I could do without.
I didn’t bother to say that I would like to take the same approach as I have with my T2 and see how I get on under my own steam. It seemed pointless. When I first met her she seemed very supportive and even talked about reading this forum. But since my diagnosis my mum has been diagnosed T2 and has the same DN. She told my mum not to pay attention to forums as it was mostly rubbish.
Here are my latest results, comments and opinions welcome:
Higher figure refers to results in April
Blood pressure: 120/80 (down from 135/85)
Weight: 157kg (down from 174kg)
HbA1c: 41 (down from 85)
Total cholesterol: 4.4 (Normal range 0-5)
Trigs: 0.95 (down from 1.43)
HDL: 1.36 (up from 1.33)
LDL: 2.61 (up from 2.42)
Ratio: 3.24 (down from 3.31)
Liver function SERUM ALT: 63 (down from 72)
Thanks
I had my first follow up with the DN yesterday. I got my first HbA1c done since diagnosis and have previously posted about a great result; 85 to 41 in three months and lost just shy of 3 stone. All LCHF and exercise. I got my results over the phone as DN was on holiday and so this is the first time I’ve seen her since the result.
She was happy enough with my result but within 5 minutes of sitting down I got the following:
‘Your blood pressure has come down along with your sugars and your cholesterol is mostly the same as last time. So I don’t think you need a statins just yet’.
I asked what she meant by ‘yet’ given that my levels are all in normal ranges, to which she replied:
‘You definitely will need statins at some point because you’re high risk. So it’s just a matter of when. I mean if you kept losing weight and kept your sugars down and your cholesterol was more normal then I don’t know. But let’s assume you will need them, just not now’.
I left feeling pretty deflated. Obviously managing my diabetes is a life long thing regardless of my numbers but it felt like she had to put something on the agenda. Stress I could do without.
I didn’t bother to say that I would like to take the same approach as I have with my T2 and see how I get on under my own steam. It seemed pointless. When I first met her she seemed very supportive and even talked about reading this forum. But since my diagnosis my mum has been diagnosed T2 and has the same DN. She told my mum not to pay attention to forums as it was mostly rubbish.
Here are my latest results, comments and opinions welcome:
Higher figure refers to results in April
Blood pressure: 120/80 (down from 135/85)
Weight: 157kg (down from 174kg)
HbA1c: 41 (down from 85)
Total cholesterol: 4.4 (Normal range 0-5)
Trigs: 0.95 (down from 1.43)
HDL: 1.36 (up from 1.33)
LDL: 2.61 (up from 2.42)
Ratio: 3.24 (down from 3.31)
Liver function SERUM ALT: 63 (down from 72)
Thanks