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CherryAA said:

Thanks, I am still making some progress - home hba1C 50.8 yesterday, weight 94.5 kg - two weeks to go before my next formal medical fingers crossed - it would be lovely to get into the pre-diabetic range by then - I suspect my accident might have slowed down the improvements a little - given the stress and continuing pain, but one can hope.

There are two tests for " inflammation" .

Until recently I had not appreciated the clinical significance of " inflammation" - i.e. it being a marker for all sorts of things going wrong in the body across multiple diseases. Thus if either of the two markers improve - you know that your health in general is improving. If your blood tests show a marked deterioration in either then one should try and find out what is causing it if possible instead of finding it was an undetected cancer or other disease further down the line.

There are two tests -Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate "ESR" and Creative Reactive Protein "CRP " both should be low. ESR is more long term and CSR more immediately reactive. ( by way of example when I had sepsis a few years ago my CRP went from 5 to 400 for a few days and I was hospitalised .

I have attached the links to the two tests below.
https://labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/crp/tab/test/
https://labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/esr/tab/test/

if you are having blood tests done, it makes sense to include these in the list if you can and then follow up as necessary. .

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CherryAA said:

You are welcome, if I get as far as you I will be well pleased

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Freema said:

you will I know that from what you already do... and by the way i really enjoy your note of the 6 % whisky , made me take my occasional afternoon whisky today.... do mostly take it when my numbers are the highest in the mornings...like once or twice a week... now i know what to say I wish for as Christmas pressents from my sister and brother , think i´ll end up as an whisky Expert in my old days

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Freema said:

Racket and CherryAA I have been afraid of fats too and still am a bit but even more afraid of having higher blood glucose numbers so now I go in the high fat direction but mostly like fatty fish and nuts . I still haven't gotten my cholesterol numbers this latest time which surprised me thought it was standard measurement in diabetes .

When doing low calories it is much easier to get ones numbers down to normal and I wonder if I can keep them that low when in the end having to eat almost the dubble as I do now . But I wait worrying about that til I have lost all my excess weight totally and meanwhile I try to get into the best shape ever both to help my diabetes the most and also to try to avoid the loose skin from weightloss being too much of a handicap in the end But if nessescary I'll have it cut OFF.

And Yes CherryAA we are the only ones that can make this jorney joyfull and single malt can make a difference to a few of us , just hope we can keep the dose low enough ;-)

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CherryAA said:

well Freema, I embraced fat with gay abandon, steak, pork chops, lamb, bone marrow, nuts - chicken skin ( without the chicken ! ) my cholesterol shot down from 5.5 to 4.5 in 6 weeks as below, my latest home test says about 3.6 which is worrying me a bit as that seems to be too low . In any event in my N=1 case, if you want to bring down cholesterol go be Jack Sprat's wife and steal all the fat !

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