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HbA1c Finally below 7

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Csfrowantree

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Its taken a while and a lot of patience but my Hba1c is now 6.5, at its highest it was 8.2 but gradually been coming down over the last year. Hopefully I can maintain this for at least a while with my current regime of lowish GI diet and lots of exercise my current tablets 240mg Glicazide + 500mg SR Metformin.
Hopefully I will be able to stave off going onto insulin for a while yet. though my consultant expects that I probably will end up on insulin in a few years time
6.5 is lower than when I was first diagnosed about 2 yrs ago. This website has been a great help to me mainly in terms of keeping me going without getting to fed up.
I appreciate that I can not just sit back and expect it to stay this way without maintaining a fairly healthy lifestyle, though I still do enjoy the odd square or two of dark chocolate which fortunately does not seem to spike my BGs.
To all those that have been recently diagnosed there is hope after diagnosis it just takes a bit of will power and patience.
 
Congratulations on your latest HBA1c. Well done. 8)
 
Congratulations Csfrowantree, great news
 
DazG said:
Do all type 2's end up on insulin then?
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No they don't......unless they have poor control which hasn't been remedied by other means, diet and/or other medications.
 

Ken....not questioning you knowledge, but I did not know that. (I am t1 so don't know that much about T2) I thought that some T2 did indeed end up on insulin, becasue of poor control, but others, whi had had pretty good control, still ended up on insulin, due to their body changing/aging/being T2 for a long time?

I am wrong? (Not offended by a "YES!" answer...just wanted to learn
 
Thanks for the replies, I am generally happy with my Bg levels at the moment. I am now getting far fewer spikes and a lot fewer hypo's aswell.
As far as I know not all Type 2s end up on insulin, I think the reason that my consultant thought I would end up on insulin is because I was only just 40 when diagnosed and with having to take Glicazide as I cant really get on with any more than 500mg metformin thought my pancreas would eventually stop producing enough insulin, which at some point will need to be topped up ?.
Hopefully he will be wrong and I will have a long and happy and insulin free life, I suppose he just wanted to prepare me just in case.
I personally can not complain with my treatment, consultant says he is happy to give me testing strips on prescription if I can show I am controlling my dibetes myself.
 
I've got a theory on this. If a person is T2 (or even predisposed to T2), their pancreas has to work harder to deal with the sugar in their system. The more sugar in the system, the harder the pancreas has to work. Now, if the pancreas is operating at full whack for an extended period of time, it's gonna get worn out, and stop producing insulin altogether.

THAT'S when a T2 will need insulin.

if you have less sugar in your system, your pancreas has a much easier job to do.

P.S - I HATE the thought of treating T2's with insulin. If a person has insulin resistance, the treatment should be to REDUCE the insulin resistance. NOT increase the resistance to insulin by flooding th ebody with high levels of the stuff. Insulin for T2's IS (genarally) BAD. Insulin leads to weight gain, leads to increased insulin resistance, leads to more insulin being injected.

We need to differentiate between T2's. The kind where not enough insulin is produced (but the body is receptive to that insulin - these T2's WOULD benefit from insulin, becasue if they are not resistant to insulin, they are less likelyt o put on weight and head into that cycle of incresed insulin and weight gain), and the kind where insulin is produced, but where the insulin resistance is so high, that the pancreas just keeps on producing it, causing the weight to pile on. The treatment for these 2 sub-categories of T2 are complete opposites.
 
My daughter who is now 18 is T2 and on insulin. She was diagnosed 4 years a go at the age of 14, and wasn't given enough time on diet alone. At the time it was a shock to me and I didn't know about this forum. She was put on metformins for about 6 months then on insulin. It was long time after she was put on insulin I discovered this forum. I feel if I knew what I know now, things might have been different for her.
I find her being T2 so confusing . Her diabetic specialists are always advising me she has to have carbs at every meal for her insulin to work, but when I am on forum, I have found it is the carbs that is the major problem.
Everything is so confusing. I have been discussing her on the discussion thread.
 
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