Robbity
Expert
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- 6,700
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
...well - later today now.
My doctor says they don't do the full works for cholesterol now so I won't apparently get a breakdown of HDL, LDL, etc, so I feel a bit peevish! I was hoping to get more evidence that I don't really need statins. He knows I've not been taking them since last autumn.
I've posted elsewhere that I believe that the reduction in glucose levels I suddenly saw last autumn was possibly due to my coming off my long term steroid eye drops, but I've wondered more recently whether this might also be due in part to stopping my simvastatin, which also happened a few weeks prior to me seeing the change.
But I do know I should get a nice low HbA1c result again - the diabetes.co.uk converter/predictor tells me that my 3 monthly average of 6.5 from finger prick tests should come in at 38.8 but from previous results it will be a bit higher so hopefully 40 or 41.
Robbity
My doctor says they don't do the full works for cholesterol now so I won't apparently get a breakdown of HDL, LDL, etc, so I feel a bit peevish! I was hoping to get more evidence that I don't really need statins. He knows I've not been taking them since last autumn.
I've posted elsewhere that I believe that the reduction in glucose levels I suddenly saw last autumn was possibly due to my coming off my long term steroid eye drops, but I've wondered more recently whether this might also be due in part to stopping my simvastatin, which also happened a few weeks prior to me seeing the change.
But I do know I should get a nice low HbA1c result again - the diabetes.co.uk converter/predictor tells me that my 3 monthly average of 6.5 from finger prick tests should come in at 38.8 but from previous results it will be a bit higher so hopefully 40 or 41.
Robbity