Gah yeah, I kinda got that from the nurse I first saw along with "try not to bring your young child to the appt next time she's a bit distracting..." which I replied with "well what do you want me to do with her then?" which was met with a face that just looked liked I'd punched her in it. I suppose she thought I was just doing "daddy daycare" or something outmoded and outdated.
Moved the conversation on and told me it was okay to eat chocolate digestives, just don't eat the packet etc. I dunno if you'd tell an alcoholic to just have the one, but there we go.
Done some reading and thought sod them if that's the advice and help, and attitude that's there, I'll sort myself out. hb was "only" at 50 at the time but thought I'm not having this, went on a mad drive to reduce weight at the time 2016, which I did, by a dramatic amount. Got a bit cocky over time as felt tonnes better and food didn't seem to be affecting bg, stopped measuring, went into autopilot and put a bit of weight on, I started then avoiding appointments, tests, the scales etc.
putting on more, and more weight slowly over time
Had hba1c taken last year when went in for other unavoidable issues, and was told was prediabetic now! at "45" hba1c and that was a bit of a licence to go mental in my brain.
brain - "hello, I'm fatter now and eat more rubbish than I ever did but less diabetic? cool, go forth and eat all the **** you want, you know you want to..."
I "fell off" big time... got to point where weight started affecting and loads of other symptoms and got fed up with that, it took a while to be ready though... had to reckon with the brain and say actually, that thought you had there, that's only a thought, and thoughts are not me, "you" are wrong on this one, and are just trying to sabotage me my trying to keep me safe but it's having the opposite effect here... I'm sick and tired of this and the only way that's going to happen is make some changes. shut up, sod the food companies, the adverts, the supermarkets, sod the people who'd like me to stay this way, sod you all I'm going to look after myself now instead of everyone else coming first. (I have a rebellious streak so this seems to work for me as it did smoking years ago lol) plus I'm not going to be able to look after anyone else if I eat myself into an early grave.
I had to alter my relationship with the whole not just eating for nutrition thing.
I saw a doctor today to discuss some bloods I had taken in Feb, aside from the receptionist telling me it was about a bone profile and to book a non-urgent appt, it wasn't about bone profile at all. The doctor seemed pretty decent, said the low carb way ive been eating since Jan was great and was impressed how "better" I looked, all other bloods fine, but blood pressure was borderline and would like it to come down, and cholesterol on 10? or 10% risk in next 10 years or something (I'm not sure she knew entirely or mixed up some stats with results) and usually they offer medication when it hits that level but as I've made changes maybe that will come down without having to resort to that. Which I agreed would rather not take medication if was able by other means.
Saw that hba1c had crept up by 2 to 47 which she said was "stable" and like you the guidelines said to test again in a year, I suggested maybe we rerun the tests a bit sooner than that as it's still a rise and it was higher before, to my surprise she agreed but still in 6 months time, rather than 3.
I'm just hoping it was much higher before and dropped, rather than it's risen since I've gone low carb and that it was far higher in the months preceding it. that's why I'd like to monitor it.
Not sure of the point of my little ramble past catharsis and I suppose I relate to falling off the wagon and maybe the lost faith in those in settings but I guess despite bad experiences that isn't every one, and how I felt yesterday isn't how I have to feel today. it' so easy to feel negative about the whole thing, when we live in such a negative world/society to begin with, easy to forget to hope for better things and take actions based on those hopes.