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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
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Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
There are targets to achieve in BG control depending on medication.
NICE says roughly:
Metformin and exercise 6.5%
Metformin and one second stage 7.0%
3rd stage (possibly including insulin) 7.5%
All very well, but sometimes my logic blows a fuse.
Last HbA1c was 7.0% on Metformin and exercise.
So I am well away from my target.
However I am on target for Metformin + another drug.
Under those circumstances should I start a second drug? I am already hitting the target.
Or should I regard the target as really 6.5% with a second drug.
I suspect that I would have to be well up towards the 7.5% to justify a second drug to bring me back to 7%.
Likewise well over 7.5% to justify going onto 3rd stage medication. to bring me back to 7.5%.
However it still niggles me to have the targets relaxed each time, instead of always aiming for the same reading.
Probably pragmatic, just jars against my logic a bit.
NICE says roughly:
Metformin and exercise 6.5%
Metformin and one second stage 7.0%
3rd stage (possibly including insulin) 7.5%
All very well, but sometimes my logic blows a fuse.
Last HbA1c was 7.0% on Metformin and exercise.
So I am well away from my target.
However I am on target for Metformin + another drug.
Under those circumstances should I start a second drug? I am already hitting the target.
Or should I regard the target as really 6.5% with a second drug.
I suspect that I would have to be well up towards the 7.5% to justify a second drug to bring me back to 7%.
Likewise well over 7.5% to justify going onto 3rd stage medication. to bring me back to 7.5%.
However it still niggles me to have the targets relaxed each time, instead of always aiming for the same reading.
Probably pragmatic, just jars against my logic a bit.