Hi @Becks96 I hope things improve for you. Has your leg healed now? What support are your diabetes team giving you?Hi mine was 98 % last time have high bm daily.find it hard to control for over 24 years had my left leg amputated 10 months ago hoping hba1c is much lower soon just have keep trying.
Hope it is all settling down for you and becoming 2nd nature! it is a bit of a journey and i say that after >30 years T1D!Hi, my son has been recently diagnosed with t1d and thank god for our national health system. Even though we are a poor country, my son has a Freestyle Libre almost fully funded. After a rough month of hypos, we are finally able to deal with the hypers.
Every morning he wakes up with bg lower than 180, I give him his premeal bolus, he eats after 20 minutes, and then his readings are as if he never had insulin, he can go as high as 320. It is so frustrating, because 4h later we have to rush or he will have a hypo (he used to have them, but we can manage now because we lowered the Lantus dose).
His Hba1c is 10.6 and we are very lucky to have him, because when he entered hospital the meter wouldn't work because Glucose was higher than 600.
I am thinking of getting miaomiao so I can stop waking up every hour during the night to check on him, so any feedback is appreciatted.
My recent HbA1c was 5.8%, the diabetes specialist told me this was too low and I should be aiming for 6.5% instead. I'm not sure that's good advice though. (Far be it from me to presume to know better than a consultant doctor but his advice seems at odds with what I've read online which is that around 5% is the ideal level.)
Hello Forum,
I'm a Type 1, 46 years so far as & diagnosed 1972. My Hba1c this month was 6.1. Just seen my consultant & he was unimpressed with that & said it's too low, near non Diabetic & raise level to 6.5 to 7. Ouch, I thought..that's me told. My Hba1c is usually around mid 6's. I've been using an insulin pump about 10 years & the Libre just over a year. I've complications... neuropathy, a childhood of blood sugar that misbehaved all the time!
Best wishes to all
Tux
Exactly the same as me then. It is stupid isn't it? I intend to ignore such advice and continue to shoot for 5 to 5.5. I am assuming they can't punish you by taking your treatment away if you ignore their bad advice.
I mean how can they complain that your levels are nearly as good as a non-diabetic - isn't that the point? To get ourselves as close to normal as possible to minimise the risk of complications? This helps us and helps the NHS. What's the problem with that?
My HBA1c was 6.5 . I got positive feedback. Using Libre has helped.
Just wondering if concern Re low HBA1c from professionals
may be of concern as hypos will affect this. Especially if not quickly treated?
Yes indeed.Yes I know hypos can be dangerous and that is of course what the NHS are concerned with. However, they should look at the data in the proper context. Someone could have an HbA1c of 5.5% and have tight control with few hypos and no serious ones (like myself). Or, someone could have 5.5%, or 6.5% like yourself, but fluctuate wildly from very low to very high. HbA1c is a very blunt instrument and doesn't in and of itself give the full picture, it is just a very simplistic and limited measurement.
Accordingly, in my opinion, any professional who makes the blanket statement that (say) 5.5% is too low, but 6.5% is fine, is not doing their job properly. And the thing is they don't have to guess! Because we go in there with our electronic meters with the memory bank full of all the data from our testing, they upload it to their computer and it shows exactly what numbers we've had and how good or bad our control is.
Of course, if I had 5.5% but was getting loads of hypos all over the place, it would absolutely be proper for them to say "hang on a minute, this is no good, you need to stop aiming for such low numbers because you're having all these hypos". But for someone who is disciplined enough to have good tight control? They should be saying carry on what you're doing, this is good.
6.5% is fine but AFAIK is not low enough to guarantee not having complications. It equates to an average blood sugar level of around 7.8 which many of us would be uncomfortable having for long periods. For a few hours after a high carb meal is one thing but to average that all the time is arguably not ideal.
Hi Gary 61, eating anything you want, when you want, how does that work? I miss those days, prediabetic.
Hi Gary 61, eating anything you want, when you want, how does that work? I miss those days, prediabetic.
Well so far not for me. Maybe one day. I Always have a high hb1ac, or been having lows trying to hard. Finally just started to get lower, but only after changing hospital and meeting someone who takes a little time to help me with decent advice. My background bolus figure was wrong, so I had no stability. I'm also somewhat insulin sensitive, regularly only carb counting 0.5-1.5 units of novorapid required. I also didn't know I need more insulin in the am, compared to the pm.I assumed this is common if not the norm for type 1s, it works by taking enough insulin to cover what you eat?
Yes, i intend to do the dafne.Carb counting and injecting based on what you are eating. Ask your DSN about the DAFNE (Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating) brilliant course that will help with your diabetes
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