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Do exercise spikes affect hba1c? Microalbumin levels?
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<blockquote data-quote="Chrissie18" data-source="post: 1664950" data-attributes="member: 416842"><p>This is an interesting conundrum, I am a type II since 1999, and my HbA1c has remained pretty stable fluctuating only if I allowed myself to gain weight. However last year I did the 5K Swimathon for Marie Curie, watched my diet very carefully, cut my carbs right down to a maximum of 30g a day and my HbA1c was its highest ever at 17, from 5.6. Everyone wanted to put me on insulin, refused. My bloods have gone back to marginally over 5 again, with reducing my exercise from half an hour in the gym followed by 1-2 hours swim to gym/exercise classes twice a week and swimming twice a week. So how do you explain this? No-one can. The HbA1c climbs when the body is anaemic as it is related to the cells that carry oxygen around the body. The only way to control Type II diabetes is to lose weight, you can never reverse it whatever those dumb doctors say on the TV, as even when you get your bloods to within normal limits and you might no longer need medication if you gain weight or go back to poor eating habits the diabetes will rear its ugly head again. As to your kidneys, they filter your blood and a lot of sugar in the blood interferes with the very fine balance in the tiny cells that do the filtering. This will only deteriorate if you do not control your blood sugar, and will end up as renal failure. As for the pin pricking, all the latest research indicates that if you are on Metformin or similar that you should not test your blood as the readings are not an indication.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chrissie18, post: 1664950, member: 416842"] This is an interesting conundrum, I am a type II since 1999, and my HbA1c has remained pretty stable fluctuating only if I allowed myself to gain weight. However last year I did the 5K Swimathon for Marie Curie, watched my diet very carefully, cut my carbs right down to a maximum of 30g a day and my HbA1c was its highest ever at 17, from 5.6. Everyone wanted to put me on insulin, refused. My bloods have gone back to marginally over 5 again, with reducing my exercise from half an hour in the gym followed by 1-2 hours swim to gym/exercise classes twice a week and swimming twice a week. So how do you explain this? No-one can. The HbA1c climbs when the body is anaemic as it is related to the cells that carry oxygen around the body. The only way to control Type II diabetes is to lose weight, you can never reverse it whatever those dumb doctors say on the TV, as even when you get your bloods to within normal limits and you might no longer need medication if you gain weight or go back to poor eating habits the diabetes will rear its ugly head again. As to your kidneys, they filter your blood and a lot of sugar in the blood interferes with the very fine balance in the tiny cells that do the filtering. This will only deteriorate if you do not control your blood sugar, and will end up as renal failure. As for the pin pricking, all the latest research indicates that if you are on Metformin or similar that you should not test your blood as the readings are not an indication. [/QUOTE]
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