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<blockquote data-quote="busydiabeticmum" data-source="post: 1635413" data-attributes="member: 160151"><p>I had a look at my diary from when I started recording my results... 26.1.15... (began steroids) 17:53- 29.0 retested to check it was correct... 29.4.</p><p>I didn't go low carb at this point, I went to the doctors a week or so later, I was given a hba1c of 85, placed on metformin (which I took for a week while I was researching. I didn't get single digit results until 17.3.15 that was afternoon 8.1. I had been low carbing at this point for almost 2 months. By the 21.3.15 I stayed in single digits, they also showed a downward trend. I can see I was still getting reading of 6.8 for morning before breakfast results in June. But the rest of the day was fine.... then spikes with exercise (9s) it took several more months of ketosis to stop those spikes too. Within 2 months of the first hba1c they retested (6 weeks after I started low carbing) and it was a 48, unfortunately not low enough to avoid diabetic diagnosis, however I argues that hba1c was looking at 3 months which had an over lap of a month which covered the time I was put on steroids... so they agreed to RE test me 4 months later and I had a hba1c of 31. They agreed to write me down as medically induced diabetic which is either resolved or "diet controlled" but still get yearly checks... last hba1c was 32.</p><p>Don't expect it to happen overnight. I was just happy to get Bgl out of the high teens into the low teens... so my advice is take it one step at a time. It took years to develop the diabetes! Keep going, you will get there, it just takes time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="busydiabeticmum, post: 1635413, member: 160151"] I had a look at my diary from when I started recording my results... 26.1.15... (began steroids) 17:53- 29.0 retested to check it was correct... 29.4. I didn't go low carb at this point, I went to the doctors a week or so later, I was given a hba1c of 85, placed on metformin (which I took for a week while I was researching. I didn't get single digit results until 17.3.15 that was afternoon 8.1. I had been low carbing at this point for almost 2 months. By the 21.3.15 I stayed in single digits, they also showed a downward trend. I can see I was still getting reading of 6.8 for morning before breakfast results in June. But the rest of the day was fine.... then spikes with exercise (9s) it took several more months of ketosis to stop those spikes too. Within 2 months of the first hba1c they retested (6 weeks after I started low carbing) and it was a 48, unfortunately not low enough to avoid diabetic diagnosis, however I argues that hba1c was looking at 3 months which had an over lap of a month which covered the time I was put on steroids... so they agreed to RE test me 4 months later and I had a hba1c of 31. They agreed to write me down as medically induced diabetic which is either resolved or "diet controlled" but still get yearly checks... last hba1c was 32. Don't expect it to happen overnight. I was just happy to get Bgl out of the high teens into the low teens... so my advice is take it one step at a time. It took years to develop the diabetes! Keep going, you will get there, it just takes time. [/QUOTE]
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