Well I have been to the docs this morning and my HBA1C and under the new criteria I am 35 so very pleased. The doc was understanding about my side effects regarding Simvistatin (spl) but has prescribed another with hopefully less problems and he said my bad cholesterol was significantly down. However, my BP was still up so wants to give me more pills, not sure about this. Will start low carbing from next week will let you brilliant people know how it goes.