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@Morethanidlike and welcome to the forum.
You are not going to like this at all! You will either reject it out of hand, or it will make you question what Doctors and society has been telling you for years/decades.
What has changed over the last year (since your previous (non-diabetic) HbA1C ? Have you been eating more 'healthy' whole grains or fruit, or swapped sugary drinks to fruit juice, eaten more low fat things? When did you start the statins? Have you started any other medicines in the last year?
The truth is that Type 2 diabetes is really an intolerance to the amount of carbohydrates you are eating - starches as well as sugars. Starches include all the major grains (wheat, barley, rice, corn, oats ) - and whole grains contain just a tiny bit of fibre but are otherwise just the same as the refined grains. Almost all fruit contains large amounts of sugars - most are bred for that since the beginning of agriculture. Most fruit juice contains more sugar than soft drinks like coke or fruit squashes do.
Several medicines (predominantly statins and steroids increase our blood glucose and so can help give us Type 2 diabetes. It even says so on some of the manufacturers' web sites, but many doctors still deny it.
All (digestible) carbohydrates turn into sugars when digested - this process can start with saliva in the mouth breaking them down. The Glycaemic Index of both refined wheat flour and mashed potato are quite a lot higher than that of Table Sugar.
PCOS doesn't cause Insulin resistance - it is the other way around! Insulin resistance causes both PCOS and T2D and insulin resistance is caused by high insulin levels over a very long period, which in turn is caused by eating large amounts of carbohydrates too frequently over a long period.
Thus for somebody like you (or me and other members of this forum) eating what most people think is healthy is, actually really bad for us. Eating carbohydrates as much as doctors advise is not good, eating 'little and often' is bad (the often part) since the longer we can go without eating carbs the better chance we have of reducing our body fat and thus our Insulin Resistance.
Carbohydrates are the only non-essential Macro Nutrient meaning that we need to eat Proteins and Fats, but not Carbs (though it's almost impossible to avoid them completely. So for somebody like us, eating Low Fat makes no sense, we need to eat Low Carb!
Eating Low Carb lowers Blood Glucose, which tends to reduce weight which tends to reduce Blood Pressure, as well as tending to put T2 Diabetes in to remission.
It isn't (usually) eating saturated fat which makes us fat, it's eating excess Carbs - because Insulin is the Fat Storage Hormone since it promotes the storage of Blood Glucose as body fat in our fat cells and obviously helps prevent the body fat actually being used as energy. Since, historically, in terms of food we can be in a period of plenty, or a period of starvation - but not both at the same time!
Your nurse obviously would drive around with a speedometer that works only once per 3 months -like having an HbA1C every 3 months and not testing in between.
A Blood Glucose meter is used for 3 things, but mainly for Type 2 Diabetics it is used to find oud what (and how much) we can eat without spiking our Blood Glucose too high. Souse it to test before each meal and 2hrs after first bite until you get comfortable in knowing what the after effect of your next meal will be on your BG before you eat it!
The majority of people who eat Low Carb find that their LDL Cholesterol either gets lower, or stays te same. For a few like ne, it goes up - but even the the Triglycerides go down (which is good) and the HDL goes up (which is good), so that the overall Lipid Profile is actually better than before despite the LDL being higher - even if we assume that LDL, which is needed for immune system and hormones is actually bad for us, which is very doubtful!