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6 months since diagnosis Hba1c results

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daisy222

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Location
Cambridgeshire
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Insulin
Just got back from DSN, got my Hba1c results 5.9%. All thanks to lovely people and their Low Carb diet advice found on this forum.
I also lost 11kg weight and haven't feel hungry once. :clap:
 
6.7 to 5.9 that's a great result Daisy well done. AND a 24 llb weight loss, soon you will be "cured"! (Only joking).

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Great result Daisy! You should be chuffed with that. Did your DSN also send you for a full blood panel?
I am curious because I am coming up to an HbA1c test and they will to the other blood tests as well. I am quite curious about effects of the low(er) carb diet on cholesterol. I don't think I am as worried about the results as I am about the grief one will get from any negative results in cholesterol measurements.

Kenny :thumbup:
 
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KennyS said:
Great result Daisy! You should be chuffed with your that. Did your DSN also send you for a full blood panel?
I am curious because I am coming up to an HbA1c test and they will to the other blood tests as well. I am quite curious about effects of the low(er) carb diet on cholesterol. I don't think I am as worried about the results as I am about the grief one will get from any negative results in cholesterol measurements.

Kenny :thumbup:[/quot

Hi Kenny My DSN is really rubbish, her advice to me 6 months ago was "eat carbs with every meal",
And today after giving me good news she wanted to move me to 1 a year Hba1c- because my controll is exellent I asked, how else I will now if it didn't got worse since I am not geting strips on prescription etc, she started all that talkin about NHS trying to save money etc, and she didn't do any other blood tests, I asked for cholesterol one, but she refused- she said their guidelines are : once a year...but at the end she agreed to do hba1c, only because I insisted on having my cholesterol checked in 6 month, so she will check them both.
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Hi kennys im also worried about cholesterol and im doing the low carb im sure i will have a more positive Hba1c but wondering if this diet will bring my cholesterol levels down ,let us know if your results are good Good luck :)
 
foxy123 said:
Hi kennys im also worried about cholesterol and im doing the low carb im sure i will have a more positive Hba1c but wondering if this diet will bring my cholesterol levels down ,let us know if your results are good Good luck :)
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As I said above, I don't know that I am particularly worried about the results themselves, just the grief from the nurse. I am expecting my HDL to go up and my triglyceride to fall but the problem is the ldl measurement. The UK still measures the ldl as a total ldl weight when research has clearly shown that their are 2 types of ldl.... small/dense/hard and large/light/fluffy. The light fluffy are not connected with damage to arteries but are still counted as part of total ldl weight. Were the test to be split to show the difference, I would suspect that the small dense ldl would decline.... More important are the ratios of HDL to Triglyceride and Total Cholesterol. to HDL...and with regard to damage LDL can do is the inflammation caused by an out of control immune system cause by a diet filled with inflammatory foods.... but to convince my nurse of that may take some doing...

How long has it been since you started your diet? Another thing to think about with respect to your cholesterol tests is what is going on during the time you take the test. Keep in mind that as you loose weight (I don't know if you are doing that or not), you body dumps fatty acids and trapped triglycerides into the blood stream. As I am coming up to my tests in a couple of weeks, I have stabilized my weight for the last couple of weeks and will keep it steady until after the test...


Kenny
 
Very well done Daisy, keep up the good work :thumbup: :clap:
 
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