I'm one of those irritating people who reads low, much of the time,........... these days. These days is important.
In my early days I seemed to have various sticking points where I stayed for an apparent age, but then notched down a bit. Others have found similarly.
However, I'm a great believer that we each have a range withing which our bodies can run, and be sustainable longer term. For some of us those are non-diabetic levels and for some, perhaps whose bodies haven't been able to fully recover so well, a bit higher, and of course that will mean some will require pharmaceutical support to achieve and maintain in that zone.
I've been diagnosed 3 years, but since May 14 (second post diagnosis HbA1c - numbers in my signature), my range has been tight +/-2. It's not the lowest on the forum, and maybe if I tweaked my eat a bit more I could go lower, but I'm content with where I've got to. I seem to be able to vary my diet quite a lot, and still maintain that.
Of course 2 and a bit years isn't long term, in terms of a lifetime, but I'm hopeful for a while at least. Maybe as I age my body will tire and my numbers will weaken a bit. If they do, I'll have to tackle that by tweaking my diet or if they drift enough, consider medication. Not one of us has certainty when it comes to our lives or healthy.
Bottom line is, in the middle of all this, we have to live our lives, be part of our families and communities, do a decent job of work and contribute to society. Our lives shouldn't be diabetes, although a decent investment in understanding and managing it, right up front pays dividends in my view.
So,
@MissMac , I think what I may be waffling my way towards is; you have your next HbA1c pretty soon, so why not keep doing what your doing until then. No big changes. Then you will be able to evaluate, to an extent, the progress you have made. From that set of figures you may have a better idea do what to do next, or if indeed you need to do anything different at all.
This condition is a bit of a personal puzzle with no bulletproof solution at the back of the book. If only....
I think you're doing fine and I cross my fingers for your test set of bloods.