Hello,
I've just arrived home from my appointment with the lady who is responsible for insulin pumps at my diabetes centre (after waiting almost 2 hours to go in! But hey ho).
My current Hba1c is 10.3 m/mol (89 in mg/dL) and she told me to come back at the start of July to get it retested, where it will hopefully be between 8 and 9, as I'd then meet one of the NICE guidelines. She also reminded me that a consultant needs to agree before we submit funding requests etc, but unfortunately my appointment with my consultant was moved from April to October as he's off until then due to having an operation. She did say, however, that she'd chase down the consultant who is overseeing things until then, to explain my case and hopefully convince him that I should have a pump.
Basically I think I'm feeling a bit down as I was expecting everything to have moved a lot faster than this. I think I'd done so much reading and research into pumps that is psyched myself up to getting one soon, but now I'm feeling like a lead balloon.
Has anyone got any top tips on lowering my Hba1c? She told me that if it was lower than 8-9 m/mol i.e. around 5-6 m/mol then I wouldn't actually be eligible for a pump as it would show I can get a good reading without a pump, so all I'm looking for really is how to get it around 2 points lower in a period of about 8 weeks.
Sorry for the long post but I needed to rant somewhere, and thank you in advance for any replies.
I've just arrived home from my appointment with the lady who is responsible for insulin pumps at my diabetes centre (after waiting almost 2 hours to go in! But hey ho).
My current Hba1c is 10.3 m/mol (89 in mg/dL) and she told me to come back at the start of July to get it retested, where it will hopefully be between 8 and 9, as I'd then meet one of the NICE guidelines. She also reminded me that a consultant needs to agree before we submit funding requests etc, but unfortunately my appointment with my consultant was moved from April to October as he's off until then due to having an operation. She did say, however, that she'd chase down the consultant who is overseeing things until then, to explain my case and hopefully convince him that I should have a pump.
Basically I think I'm feeling a bit down as I was expecting everything to have moved a lot faster than this. I think I'd done so much reading and research into pumps that is psyched myself up to getting one soon, but now I'm feeling like a lead balloon.
Has anyone got any top tips on lowering my Hba1c? She told me that if it was lower than 8-9 m/mol i.e. around 5-6 m/mol then I wouldn't actually be eligible for a pump as it would show I can get a good reading without a pump, so all I'm looking for really is how to get it around 2 points lower in a period of about 8 weeks.
Sorry for the long post but I needed to rant somewhere, and thank you in advance for any replies.
