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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 1966006" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>That's normal. When you're newly diagnosed they hold you up to the light for a bit. See if there's damage from prolonged high bloodsugars for instance, checking heart, kidneys, liver, nerve endings, eyes... Your HbA1c looks like the odds are slim there's extensive damage though. At the end you'll feel like a pincushion, but if you request all testresults, you'll be a <em>well-informed</em> pincushion. You really have to know where you're starting from.</p><p></p><p>As you're already going the low carb route, may I ask how low carb you're going? Have you cut out all bread, potatoes, rice, corn, pasta, most fruits etc, or are you cutting back those things a little. Do you need any help there or are you a-okay on that front? I can wholeheartedly recommend reading Dr. Jason Fung's The Diabetes Code before your appointment on the 30th. It'll tell you a whole lot about low carb, high fat, diabetes, how to handle it and what'll especially come in handy: you'll know what questions to ask the doc and diabetes nurse. And maybe purchase a meter of your own? NHS doesn't usually fund meters for T2's unless they're on heavy duty meds or insulin, but without a meter you're flying blind. If you test before a meal, and 2 hours after the first bite, and don't go up more than 2.0 mmol/l, that meal was perfect and worth repeating. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> After a while you'd test less because you can guesstimate meals, having had them before.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I'm on my way out for the evening after dinner, but... I hope something in there was useful. </p><p>Again, you'll be okay. Your HbA1c isn't all that bad. You'll be back to decent numbers in no time at all.</p><p>Jo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 1966006, member: 401801"] That's normal. When you're newly diagnosed they hold you up to the light for a bit. See if there's damage from prolonged high bloodsugars for instance, checking heart, kidneys, liver, nerve endings, eyes... Your HbA1c looks like the odds are slim there's extensive damage though. At the end you'll feel like a pincushion, but if you request all testresults, you'll be a [I]well-informed[/I] pincushion. You really have to know where you're starting from. As you're already going the low carb route, may I ask how low carb you're going? Have you cut out all bread, potatoes, rice, corn, pasta, most fruits etc, or are you cutting back those things a little. Do you need any help there or are you a-okay on that front? I can wholeheartedly recommend reading Dr. Jason Fung's The Diabetes Code before your appointment on the 30th. It'll tell you a whole lot about low carb, high fat, diabetes, how to handle it and what'll especially come in handy: you'll know what questions to ask the doc and diabetes nurse. And maybe purchase a meter of your own? NHS doesn't usually fund meters for T2's unless they're on heavy duty meds or insulin, but without a meter you're flying blind. If you test before a meal, and 2 hours after the first bite, and don't go up more than 2.0 mmol/l, that meal was perfect and worth repeating. ;) After a while you'd test less because you can guesstimate meals, having had them before. Anyway, I'm on my way out for the evening after dinner, but... I hope something in there was useful. Again, you'll be okay. Your HbA1c isn't all that bad. You'll be back to decent numbers in no time at all. Jo [/QUOTE]
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