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<blockquote data-quote="Fizzylaa" data-source="post: 888383" data-attributes="member: 156164"><p>Hi Michael WCH. My hba1c is usually tested twice yearly. Sometimes the doctor gets confused with the new measurements and mistakes 59 for 5.9 but who am I to tell him his job? This forum keeps me informed. I've never been told to test my blood sugars, but I have been allowed to do so with the provision of a meter, strips and lancets courtesy of the NHS. Now I'm on gliclazide even my GP is happy with the arrangement because I could get hypos. And I have on several mornings since being put on this medication three weeks ago. I have to have hba1c taken again in mid September to see how the new meds are working. I can tell you now they are doing the job quite well. Weight dropping and less intestinal upset. I feel less sleepy. My gums are not bleeding. Today's tooth extraction site is really fine. No pain. No painkillers! I am feeling well. Diabetes sure is a complex illness. 7bn people worldwide - I bet if we all had diabetes there would be 7bn different ways of reacting to it and dealing with it. We are such complex organisms with such widely diverse lives and diets with other possibly unknown complications and DNA variations how are we ever expected to totally control the disease? Need to find all the triggers and need to find all the cures. Not in my lifetime I expect. I'm not cross I have it. I have three beautiful daughters. One of them is bound to get it too as it seems to run in my family. We discuss this. They understand how frustrating the media is with how it perpetuates all the worst myths about diabetic causes. We are all tarred with the same brush it seems. I expect in some far off future world they'll look back at our time in history and realise they over emphasised the wrong aspects of diabetes and how they got their understanding all skewed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fizzylaa, post: 888383, member: 156164"] Hi Michael WCH. My hba1c is usually tested twice yearly. Sometimes the doctor gets confused with the new measurements and mistakes 59 for 5.9 but who am I to tell him his job? This forum keeps me informed. I've never been told to test my blood sugars, but I have been allowed to do so with the provision of a meter, strips and lancets courtesy of the NHS. Now I'm on gliclazide even my GP is happy with the arrangement because I could get hypos. And I have on several mornings since being put on this medication three weeks ago. I have to have hba1c taken again in mid September to see how the new meds are working. I can tell you now they are doing the job quite well. Weight dropping and less intestinal upset. I feel less sleepy. My gums are not bleeding. Today's tooth extraction site is really fine. No pain. No painkillers! I am feeling well. Diabetes sure is a complex illness. 7bn people worldwide - I bet if we all had diabetes there would be 7bn different ways of reacting to it and dealing with it. We are such complex organisms with such widely diverse lives and diets with other possibly unknown complications and DNA variations how are we ever expected to totally control the disease? Need to find all the triggers and need to find all the cures. Not in my lifetime I expect. I'm not cross I have it. I have three beautiful daughters. One of them is bound to get it too as it seems to run in my family. We discuss this. They understand how frustrating the media is with how it perpetuates all the worst myths about diabetic causes. We are all tarred with the same brush it seems. I expect in some far off future world they'll look back at our time in history and realise they over emphasised the wrong aspects of diabetes and how they got their understanding all skewed. [/QUOTE]
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