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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Widgets" data-source="post: 2437770" data-attributes="member: 545952">I'd forgotten I'd made this post, but having been reminded of it I thought I would update here. I got access to my test results on Patient Access - by mentioning it when I was talking to someone at the surgery who then clicked a button and let me into that part of the system. Very easy. I was diagnosed pre-diabetic after blood tests in June. My test results tell me that my number had been going up by a point or so a year since I went on blood pressure medication in 2018. I was though only just into pre-diabetic territory at HbA1c of 43. There's a nice graph on the website with gentle but definite upward gradient. Until the test I had at the end of last week which has just gone onto the system. As of 10th September it is now 35 mmol/mol. Which is a number that I am very happy with, but I am under no illusions that my metabolic system is 'fixed', I know that if I put weight back on (I've lost a lot in the last 3 months), or go back to bread, pasta, potatoes every day then that number will go back up. My granddad had horrible diabetic complications (he was diagnosed in the early 1970s, treatment was very very different then!). I may allow myself some more wiggle room, but I'm going to stay with the low carb, keep an eye on my numbers, and keep reading here. This is one of the best communities on the 'net that I've come across.</blockquote>

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