- Messages
- 770
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Other
- Dislikes
- Jazz music, science denial, and running out of coffee.
I just noticed the following info (attached image) about when I joined this site and when I first posted, after forgetting about it in the busyness of life.
I must have joined in March 2016, with a view to participating after reading the forums for a while. I first posted in December 2017 then forgot about it until May 2018.
March 2016 was around the time when (now in hindsight) I wish I had continued keeping a close eye on my BGs and esp my HbA1c.
In NZ we are entitled to 3 monthly HbA1cs and most other tests we ask for. There's a culture of GPs not putting up a fight when a patient takes an interest in their own diabetes management. (The NHS could save a lot of money if it followed this lead.)
I was having 6 monthly A1cs because they were in the 30s for so long frankly we got sick of looking at them. j/k
In Feb 2016 my A1c had crept up to 43 and I now believe I had probably joined this site for a refresher on how to get it back down to the 30s. Oh how I wish I had stayed with that idea. Because the medical centre then forgot to send me for an A1c test in Dec 2016 and I didn't notice that.
The problem was compounded in July 2017, when I did have my A1c tested, but no one at the medical centre contacted me and I had forgotten to ask. It wasn't until December 2017 that I found out what had happened with my BGs, and came back to the forum to start a thread about getting back on the wagon.
The moral of this story is: Do not take your eye off the ball.
And don't rely on the automatic computerised recalls at your doctor's surgery, either. AFAIK, they are blaming that for one of the mistakes.
I must have joined in March 2016, with a view to participating after reading the forums for a while. I first posted in December 2017 then forgot about it until May 2018.
March 2016 was around the time when (now in hindsight) I wish I had continued keeping a close eye on my BGs and esp my HbA1c.
In NZ we are entitled to 3 monthly HbA1cs and most other tests we ask for. There's a culture of GPs not putting up a fight when a patient takes an interest in their own diabetes management. (The NHS could save a lot of money if it followed this lead.)
I was having 6 monthly A1cs because they were in the 30s for so long frankly we got sick of looking at them. j/k
In Feb 2016 my A1c had crept up to 43 and I now believe I had probably joined this site for a refresher on how to get it back down to the 30s. Oh how I wish I had stayed with that idea. Because the medical centre then forgot to send me for an A1c test in Dec 2016 and I didn't notice that.
The problem was compounded in July 2017, when I did have my A1c tested, but no one at the medical centre contacted me and I had forgotten to ask. It wasn't until December 2017 that I found out what had happened with my BGs, and came back to the forum to start a thread about getting back on the wagon.
The moral of this story is: Do not take your eye off the ball.
And don't rely on the automatic computerised recalls at your doctor's surgery, either. AFAIK, they are blaming that for one of the mistakes.