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CallMeAlan

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Location
Newbury
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hi. I was diagnosed with T2 on 22 April with HbA1C of 67 from a blood test. I was prescribed 2 x 500Mg of Metformin per day, and cut out just about all sugar, starch - carbs in general. I'm 71, and weight has gone down from 10.5 stone to 9 and has stablised there.

On 1 May I got myself a meter and started recording my levels 2 or 3 times a day. My blood glucose has only once exceeded 10, when I had a 10.2 first thing in the morning following (presumably) sweet potatoes the evening before.

In general, my first thing in the morning reading has averaged about 8.2. After dinner average has been about 6.4 and overall gross average has been around 7.2.

But on Saturday, first reading was 7.5, and since then it's been 6.5, morning, noon and night, plus or minus 0.1.

So I wonder why all of a sudden I'm 'normal'? A very slight numbness in the toes has gone, though I'm still getting some mouth dryness.

What do you think?

Alan
 
An hba1c of 67 corresponds to an average bg level of 10.6. It is certainly possible to reduce your levels by reducing the carbs in your diet and by (if you are overweight) reducing weight. It may be that you have sufficiently reduced the carbs in your diet and your weight to reduce your levels to 6.5, but you'd need to do tests more than a couple of days to see what your peak readings are. The metformin will help a bit, particularly your first morning reading, as that is influenced by your liver pumping out sugar first thing in the morning, and the metformin reduces that sugar dump.

Anyway, congrats on the reduction.
 

Hi @CallMeAlan .

Welcome to the forum.

I would say @EllieM has this right

For me
DX with 57 HBA1c in aug '18..
began testing in Oct,
I dropped each month it felt,
until by Jan I was at 42 HBA1c.

If you have cut out a lot of carbs, I think you're doing the same.

The body likes to preserve itself, and some of that preservation, is keeping itself in balance DESPITE us not taking the best care if it

So when we change a diet, for instance,
it then wonders where all that lovely extra glucose/sugar has gone..

so it releases a little more from storage to balance us up, which means it releases more insulin, thus our levels still seem high.

Once it realises it's a deliberate ploy on our part, it relaxes and settles into the new level of dietary intake...

until it gets rattled by the next drop in levels, then it kicks back into survival mode, before once again relaxing, and dropping the release of glucose & insulin once more.

Its a Wiley old foe, and sometimes we have to outfox it

The dawn phenomenon is one such battle

In the goal of lowering our BG Level we limit / cut our foods.

DP, is where it thinks we're in danger,
So it gives us a glucose boost on waking to help.
Which can continue rising our numbers during the day

And that can cause worry, so we try ways to lower it..
NO Food, makes good sense.

Yet, by eating a small something instead, it can reassure the body we are fine actually, so it turns down the extra release, and our numbers lower.

I'd say you're doing great
Keep up the good work
 
Hi Alan.. a BG Level of 6.4 would for most non diabetics be an indicator of Pre Diabetes risks, but not of major concern. For a diagnosed T2. Like myself, it's a Golden Number and if I continued to get that as a standard I would be doing cartwheels.
If you readings are starting to stabilise at the low 6 and even better a mid 5 range then.. you could be on the path to remission. It can happen with good BG control exercise and diet.. Fingers XD and good luck
 
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