Another post I would like to like multiple times.I wish I'd started regular testing earlier, I would have found out just how rubbish the dietary advice I was being given was a lot sooner.
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You should not be exposed to ridicule on this forum for expressing the view that you are happy with the advice given by your healthcare professional and that you intend to follow that advice.
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As a matter of interest eastcoastphil, when is your next set of blood tests/diabetes review? Will you keep us informed of how well you are doing? Mine is an annual check usually, is yours the same?Thanks Syd, but forums attract many different sorts I guess.....
This takes us back a month ago when I was the first to reply to your previous thread on the topic and said "A lot are like you and UK Dr agree. You will have an a1c test every 3 to 6 mths to keep track of it"Thanks Syd, but forums attract many different sorts I guess.....
In regard to the questions raised above:
1. My next visit to the DN (and therefore a test) will be in 2 months. I do have my Desmond pt1 in a couple of weeks but I assume they won't test me on that.
2. The point I was trying to make about a reading of 9 after a breakfast was that the DN said to me that it was 'OK'. I totally respect other views expressed on here, but I have no experience as I have only been diagnosed for a few weeks, so if a healthcare professional tells me it is OK at the moment at least I feel comfortable to accept that as I am a newbie. Perhaps in a year I may question it but for now I feel as if I already have a mountain of information being fired at me (Metformin, HbA1c, diet, carbs, etc) that I have enough to absorb without starting to tell the DN that I don't agree with her and to start testing on my own account.
Perhaps I am taking an easy way out here, but 4 weeks ago I would happily have had a coke and a doughnut if I fancied it and now I fear anything even likely to contain sugar, so please bear with me and don't think I am trying to tell you what to do - I don't have enough knowledge (yet) to know whether you are right or whether the DN is right, but I am learning as I go.
this could be a reason to test. more than likely the coke will be out, but perhaps a whole or 1/2 a doughnut won't spike your BG. only a post meal check will tell you this.Perhaps I am taking an easy way out here, but 4 weeks ago I would happily have had a coke and a doughnut if I fancied it and now I fear anything even likely to contain sugar, so please bear with me and don't think I am trying to tell you what to do - I don't have enough knowledge (yet) to know whether you are right or whether the DN is right, but I am learning as I go.
this could be a reason to test. more than likely the coke will be out, but perhaps a whole or 1/2 a doughnut won't spike your BG. only a post meal check will tell you this.
also you can still have an average A1c of 6% and still have wild swings high and low of BG above the recommended level causing vascular damage or it could be a stable BG with little swing giving an A1c of 6% average
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