Doctor’s report!
Ok, he’s happy that I’m not having hypos and apologised for the nurse’s cackhanded way of expressing concern. I was right though, I’m only one of two patients at our practice using Libre, so they really have never seen that control this good is even possible. We had quite a long chat about it, apparently one of the big concerns with people who have been T1 as long as I have is that they lose hypo awareness, but mine is still good. He’s happy that I keep well above legal limits to drive and ride, and that I know that a single dextrose tablet will raise my BG by 0.6mmol, so I can adjust it very quickly if I need to. I left him with a list of the books I’ve been referring to with a brief synopsis of each and how it’s helped. He’s totally behind my low carb eating, too.
Cholesterol - while the nurse had said it was high (6.2 total) he agrees with me when I pointed them out that the total:HDL (3.1) and HDL:triglycerides (0.6) ratios are absolutely spot on perfect. He said he wasn’t going to even think about “inflicting” (his word) statins on me, despite NICE guidelines that all T1s should take them as a preventative because I simply don’t need them.
@bulkbiker - thanks for all the papers and stuff you’ve posted about statins, I went in well prepared for the statin battle!
At the end of our meeting he said I should train to be a diabetes specialist nurse and that there was probably funding available for (ahem) mature applicants...