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<blockquote data-quote="ziggy_w" data-source="post: 2116280" data-attributes="member: 323454"><p>Hello [USER=512739]@moey90moey90[/USER],</p><p></p><p>Welcome to the forum. Glad to see another compatriot here. Congrats on getting your blood sugars back into the normal range.</p><p></p><p>I agree with the others, it is most likely losing weight combined with eating low carb that helped you get your HbA1c back in the non-diabetic range.</p><p></p><p>As to being considered diabetic with an HbA1c of 6.8% followed by an HbA1c of 5.4% and a normal OGTT, we can't diagnose as others have said. However maybe this can help. Based on the posts on this forum, some have reported that their GPs have taken them off the diabetic register, some were coded as in diabetes in remission or diabetes resolved (either after some years or two consecutive non-diabetic HbA1c) and some have stayed on the diabetic register because their GPs believed that diabetes is a chronic progressive disease. There are many new studies coming out on the remission of T2 and it doesn't seem to be as rare (due mainly to low carb) as once believed in the past, so it seems the field is in a state of flux right now.</p><p></p><p>In the end, it probably doesn't matter much. Having had diabetic blood sugar levels once, I believe that we are always prone to becoming diabetic again if we return to our old lifestyle. Personally, I look at myself as carbohydrate-intolerant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ziggy_w, post: 2116280, member: 323454"] Hello [USER=512739]@moey90moey90[/USER], Welcome to the forum. Glad to see another compatriot here. Congrats on getting your blood sugars back into the normal range. I agree with the others, it is most likely losing weight combined with eating low carb that helped you get your HbA1c back in the non-diabetic range. As to being considered diabetic with an HbA1c of 6.8% followed by an HbA1c of 5.4% and a normal OGTT, we can't diagnose as others have said. However maybe this can help. Based on the posts on this forum, some have reported that their GPs have taken them off the diabetic register, some were coded as in diabetes in remission or diabetes resolved (either after some years or two consecutive non-diabetic HbA1c) and some have stayed on the diabetic register because their GPs believed that diabetes is a chronic progressive disease. There are many new studies coming out on the remission of T2 and it doesn't seem to be as rare (due mainly to low carb) as once believed in the past, so it seems the field is in a state of flux right now. In the end, it probably doesn't matter much. Having had diabetic blood sugar levels once, I believe that we are always prone to becoming diabetic again if we return to our old lifestyle. Personally, I look at myself as carbohydrate-intolerant. [/QUOTE]
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