3 months on - first repeat hbA1c results since diagnosis - Metformin & diet results

Pipp said:

Love it when one of us achieves such a success, especially if we also use the opportunity to ‘educate’ the HCPs on how the success was achieved.

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peterb999 said:

That's really great and it helps so much when people recognise just what an achievement you've made, she sounds like a great person.

When I dropped down to 38 I had moved house so didn't see my old Diabetic nurse. I had my bloods taken at my new GPs and found the result myself on the NHS app - the diabetic nurse didn't even mention it just said I needed to keep a tight control on it - she was nice enough but didn't seem very impressed, haha. She weighed me and said I was 13 stone 6 so I told her I had got down from 20 stone 5. She just said "oh, ok". Then about 10 minutes later while she was going through my info on her PC she said "oh, you really were 20 stones two years ago" in a tone which suggested she hadn't believed me when I had told her. I was a bit deflated, haha.

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peterb999 said:

Funnily the only people who have congratulated me are the people on this forum and I really appreciate it, friends and family don't really understand the scores etc. and I don't really mention it to people in real life.

However, I am still flabbergasted that you have gone from 107 to 47 in 6 months, that really is amazing and bodes so well for your future. It took me two years to go from 110 to 48 and I always thought I was doing really well. I think you're fantastic for achieving it, I really do and it's not often I am so impressed.

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