On glucose lowering medication or insulin it's as low as you can get it without going hypo all the time.What is it
What is it
Is 52 ok?What do you mean by perfect?
If achieving the values @MarkMunday suggests means being obsessed by your diabetes management and unable to do the things you enjoy, totally avoid the food you love, never bring spontaneous, avoiding friends and family because they may tempt you, not have time to concentrate on work, ... in my mind, that is not perfection.
That is treating a very small part of who you are and letting diabetes control your life.
We are all different and some people maybe able to achieve these levels without being overly controlling but, for me, it is important to minimise the impact diabetes has on my mental health which means balance between perfect numbers and living my life.
Ok is 52 ok?You can't get better than 'normal', which is 4.3%-4.8% (24-29 mmol/m). The level at which diabetes is diagnosed is well above normal.
We are all different.Is 52 ok?
Well there are obviously dangerous hba1c levels and I want to know if my hba1c is okayWe are all different.
Only you know what balance is right for you.
You may feel you can reduce this without obsessing and letting diabetes take over your life. Or you may feel the mental cost is not worth the hb1ac reduction.
It is personal to you.
Well there are obviously dangerous hba1c levels and I want to know if my hba1c is okay
Only 10 years ok my consultant told me to aim for 7 or lessIf it's any consolation, I've been T1 for 50 years and my hba1c has been (much) higher for many of them. But I've been running in that sort of range for last few years and my body and my endocrinologist seem happy with it. I had my annual check up last Tuesday and my endo was happy, and guess what my level was.....? 52. (feet, eyes, kidneys, etc all passed their checks). Though I do have friends with better control who've had way more diabetic issues than me, so diabetic life isn't remotely fair.
Would I like it to be lower? Yes, I would prefer it to be a bit lower but I'm certainly not losing any sleep over it at this level. In old money aka a %, it's 6.9, and a few decades ago the guiding lines seemed to be that you were doing pretty well if you kept your levels below 7. (I was overjoyed whenever I went that low).
But it really is an individual thing, as far as fine tuning your individual target. I start losing hypo awareness if I go much below that level, so my endo complains if I'm down to 48.
But I certainly don't regard 52 as a "dangerous"hba1c level.
I just looked at some of your previous posts and want to say that I got my first glucometer at your current age and had absolutely appalling control in my teens. (If symptoms of thirst and feeling sick are anything to go by.) I've had on again off again background retinopathy for years and improvements in control really do seem to help (eventually). It's never to late to improve your control and 52 isn't bad at all. Specially if your levels have been a little ordinary before that.....
But what does your clinic say? (And depending on your eye issues, my eye doctors always wanted me to avoid rapid changes in blood sugar....)
Good luck.
What do you mean by perfect?
If achieving the values @MarkMunday suggests means being obsessed by your diabetes management and unable to do the things you enjoy, totally avoid the food you love, never bring spontaneous, avoiding friends and family because they may tempt you, not have time to concentrate on work, ... in my mind, that is not perfection.
That is treating a very small part of who you are and letting diabetes control your life.
We are all different and some people maybe able to achieve these levels without being overly controlling but, for me, it is important to minimise the impact diabetes has on my mental health which means balance between perfect numbers and living my life.