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Message: <blockquote data-quote="noblehead" data-source="post: 118931" data-attributes="member: 11028">Doczone,Pheonix is right, its refering to insulin users, but good to see that you have a hba1c of 5.3 without many hypo's.Kay957, your hba1c of 6.2 is fantastic considering you don't have many hypo's, this is where I am aiming for, 6 with very few hypo's.Suzi, I think I intend to agree with your consultant there given all the many obsticles that face children as they grow-up, but I would imagine there are exceptions to the rule.Pheonix, interesting graph there, I can see that the lower the hba1c the more severe hypo's there are, although as you say things have moved on.My own personal experience, is that I tended to have more hypo's when I ate a conventional diet of 250g+ of carbs daily, and had hba1c's of 8-9%.  I've been cutting back on the carbs for a while and changing my eating habits, what this has meant is less insulin.  When I say less, I mean by only around 1/3, but this has resulted in fewer hypo's than before.  I believe the less insulin floating around in the system, the less chance of it causing hypo's.  It is all about finding the correct dosage of insulin to match the food you eat and your daily routine/exercise.Its difficult to be a exception to the rule, when at annual check-ups consultants ask people how many hypo's are they experiencing, so if the majority of folk in the 5-6 range are saying that they have frequent episodes of hypo's, this is what they base their information on.  So for the ones that don't experience them often, but achieve good hba1c's of 6 or less, they are stereotyped just the same as the rest, disappointing but no doubt true.  Nigel</blockquote>

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