Very good appointment on the whole. She told me lots of stuff that I already know, about what Hba1c is etc, and I just let her because I didn't want to sound like a know it all! 
Told her I was low carbing and showed her my blood sugar results from 18 jan onwards, and she was impressed and said it was a very good start (numbers pretty much all in the fives and sixes now, an occasional low seven if I've eaten something dodgy!). I said I was happy to go up from one Metformin to two and she gave me a prescription. She was very keen on me being on statins, something I've avoided so far because I want to see if the numbers improve on their own with low carbing and hopefully ever reducing blood sugars. But she was happy to wait for a while and see. My total cholesterol is 6.3 with trigs of 2.7 and HDL of 1.0 so not great. But I want to give diet and Benecol a chance first.
She had no problem with low carbing and said she'd done it herself to lose five stone. She said that testing was very useful in the early stages til you see what foods affect your BG, and to do it pre each meal and then 2 hours after each meal, and I chipped in and said that I'd had to ration my testing because I'd only been prescribed 50 strips, so she gave me a prescription for another 50. And then after the appointment when I picked up my repeat prescription request that I'd put in a few days before, the doctor had also prescribed another 50! So he's prescribed me 50 x 2 since I got my meter on 18 Jan and a further 50 from the nurse, so I feel very lucky.
She checked my feet which were fine, I've got my retinopathy screening next month, and I am having a repeat hba1c in three months (although we decided to actually make it two months, because I'm going on holiday to Italy end of march, and if I waited til I got back it might be an unfair result lol. So I'm getting it done just before I go. )
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Told her I was low carbing and showed her my blood sugar results from 18 jan onwards, and she was impressed and said it was a very good start (numbers pretty much all in the fives and sixes now, an occasional low seven if I've eaten something dodgy!). I said I was happy to go up from one Metformin to two and she gave me a prescription. She was very keen on me being on statins, something I've avoided so far because I want to see if the numbers improve on their own with low carbing and hopefully ever reducing blood sugars. But she was happy to wait for a while and see. My total cholesterol is 6.3 with trigs of 2.7 and HDL of 1.0 so not great. But I want to give diet and Benecol a chance first.
She had no problem with low carbing and said she'd done it herself to lose five stone. She said that testing was very useful in the early stages til you see what foods affect your BG, and to do it pre each meal and then 2 hours after each meal, and I chipped in and said that I'd had to ration my testing because I'd only been prescribed 50 strips, so she gave me a prescription for another 50. And then after the appointment when I picked up my repeat prescription request that I'd put in a few days before, the doctor had also prescribed another 50! So he's prescribed me 50 x 2 since I got my meter on 18 Jan and a further 50 from the nurse, so I feel very lucky.
She checked my feet which were fine, I've got my retinopathy screening next month, and I am having a repeat hba1c in three months (although we decided to actually make it two months, because I'm going on holiday to Italy end of march, and if I waited til I got back it might be an unfair result lol. So I'm getting it done just before I go. )
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