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I’m not on any active mission for the 5% club, I’m more than happy to have a HbA1c in the 6% range it’s just the way it’s all panning out for me..
As I always say look after the day to day control and the HbA1c will look after themselves, which seem to be happening for me...
I managed on a daily bases to maintained a good tight range to my control, normally ranging from 4.3mmoml/l to 7mmol/l or there about, it rare for me to have an hypo, if I do then I’m picking them up at 3.8mmol/l and I can generally explain why it happened, such as playing a game of darts after something like 15 years, and well I hadn’t anticipated polishing the coffee table that I inherited would either take so long (hadn’t been polished except the top for about 20-25 years) or drop the blood glucose levels so quick...
As to the driving, well this is well monitored, at the moment I’m only really driving locally so know that as long as my levels are between 4.5-5mmol/l then I’ve no problems, but if I find myself at the 4.5mmol/l range and I haven’t had a meal or snack in the last ½ hour or so, then I will have a biscuit or a couple of jelly babies before I go..
Mind you did I have not only a long drive but a long day out going to a companion dog show in September, so meant driving up the motorway for 1 ½ hours, but turned the insulin pump down, so that I was 6mmol/l and checked frequently (before hitting a service station or junction) and my BG didn’t move much at all, highest was 6.5mmol/l but didn’t drop below the 6 mmol/l I actually did really well, not one reading above 7.5mmol/l all day, and motorway driving went without a hitch both ways... The only hitch was a delayed hypo at 2am, which Ellie my German Shepherd hiked me out of bed to treat.. I now know that after a long day of driving, I’ve got to turn my pump down over-night as well...
It’s just shear experience of knowing when to turn my pump down or even up, which is the best bolus program the length of time to use it, which makes all the difference in daily control and maintains some pretty impressive tight control around 96% of the time..
