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Hello again, good wishes to everyone. Time for another status check, pleased to be in remission but even more baffled. Due to other health conditions I get several blood tests over the year whose results overlap, so I've now had 2 full blood counts six months apart recording HbA1C as 38. The puzzle is that while I was eating strict low-carb-high-fat my BS reduced from 49 to 42. But then I started chemotherapy and thought, what the hell, let's have a few home-grown spuds with my dinner and Mrs DeeJay's apple cake when we're out on a walk. And lo, 18 months after I started the chemo, I'm at 38.
So I've sent off for a couple more Libres to see what's going on, although the Libre has always been generous and scores me in the low 30s. However it will show me what's happening in the short term when I eat chips or pasta on the occasional trip to a restaurant.
Meantime my food cupboard is still based on LCHF, assisted greatly by the wealth of faux food like pasta, rice, bread, jam and chocolate that appeared during and after lockdown, when I suspect artisan food shops had to experiment, diversify or close. Bless them all. Plus there is stuff coming over from Scandinavia which my sister-in-law in Norway researched for me.
So I remain grateful to those on this forum who showed me how to stop self-harming, as I call it. Also I would like to pay tribute to the GP who suddenly stopped staring at her computer screen and actually listened to me and Mrs DeeJay pleading for help more than a decade ago, and who set me on an upward path which was in a quite different direction from the downward spiral demanded by her NHS contract. (I'm glad to say she is now a diabetes specialist with an enlightened practice elsewhere.)
I have a few more tests for other stuff in the pipeline so I take life a day at a time. A few years ago I was sure the four horsemen of cancer, diabetes, clogged arteries and old age were drawing lots to see which gets the first shot, but I don't care now and just enjoy life as it comes. Again, thank you all.
So I've sent off for a couple more Libres to see what's going on, although the Libre has always been generous and scores me in the low 30s. However it will show me what's happening in the short term when I eat chips or pasta on the occasional trip to a restaurant.
Meantime my food cupboard is still based on LCHF, assisted greatly by the wealth of faux food like pasta, rice, bread, jam and chocolate that appeared during and after lockdown, when I suspect artisan food shops had to experiment, diversify or close. Bless them all. Plus there is stuff coming over from Scandinavia which my sister-in-law in Norway researched for me.
So I remain grateful to those on this forum who showed me how to stop self-harming, as I call it. Also I would like to pay tribute to the GP who suddenly stopped staring at her computer screen and actually listened to me and Mrs DeeJay pleading for help more than a decade ago, and who set me on an upward path which was in a quite different direction from the downward spiral demanded by her NHS contract. (I'm glad to say she is now a diabetes specialist with an enlightened practice elsewhere.)
I have a few more tests for other stuff in the pipeline so I take life a day at a time. A few years ago I was sure the four horsemen of cancer, diabetes, clogged arteries and old age were drawing lots to see which gets the first shot, but I don't care now and just enjoy life as it comes. Again, thank you all.