Type 2 Life

Annieok said:

I had my first hbA1C since I was diagnosed on 1st September. It's gone from 93 to 59 so I'm doing something right! I have been running quite high the last two weeks and I think that's because of a chest cold that's not going. I've had my cholesterol as well - gone up from 6.2 to 6.8 so not so good. HDL has gone from 0.9 to 1.2 (good) but LDL has stayed the same at 4.8 (very bad). My trigs are 1.7 (don't have the old number). I'm awaiting a c-peptide result and I'm going on a 24 BP monitor on the 6th of Jan. BP is falling slowly. though from 170 over 115 to 150 over 100. I had an ECG too and that was normal.

I have a review with my GP and DN on the 11th Jan. They will know the c-peptide results and we will review my treatment. I'm also doing the Xpert course for 6 weeks and am pretty committed to staying as low carb as possible. I may have to cut some fat though to bring down my cholesterol. My DN is lovely, very encouraging and keeps telling me how impressed she is with how hard I've worked. The big question will be when I see the consultant opthalmologist at the end of January and if my moderate retinopathy needs further treatment.

I just needed to write all this down for myself somewhere so sorry if this a bit of an information dump!

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Annieok said:

I had my first hbA1C since I was diagnosed on 1st September. It's gone from 93 to 59 so I'm doing something right! I have been running quite high the last two weeks and I think that's because of a chest cold that's not going. I've had my cholesterol as well - gone up from 6.2 to 6.8 so not so good. HDL has gone from 0.9 to 1.2 (good) but LDL has stayed the same at 4.8 (very bad). My trigs are 1.7 (don't have the old number). I'm awaiting a c-peptide result and I'm going on a 24 BP monitor on the 6th of Jan. BP is falling slowly. though from 170 over 115 to 150 over 100. I had an ECG too and that was normal.

I have a review with my GP and DN on the 11th Jan. They will know the c-peptide results and we will review my treatment. I'm also doing the Xpert course for 6 weeks and am pretty committed to staying as low carb as possible. I may have to cut some fat though to bring down my cholesterol. My DN is lovely, very encouraging and keeps telling me how impressed she is with how hard I've worked. The big question will be when I see the consultant opthalmologist at the end of January and if my moderate retinopathy needs further treatment.

I just needed to write all this down for myself somewhere so sorry if this a bit of an information dump!

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Annieok said:

I had my first hbA1C since I was diagnosed on 1st September. It's gone from 93 to 59 so I'm doing something right! I have been running quite high the last two weeks and I think that's because of a chest cold that's not going. I've had my cholesterol as well - gone up from 6.2 to 6.8 so not so good. HDL has gone from 0.9 to 1.2 (good) but LDL has stayed the same at 4.8 (very bad). My trigs are 1.7 (don't have the old number). I'm awaiting a c-peptide result and I'm going on a 24 BP monitor on the 6th of Jan. BP is falling slowly. though from 170 over 115 to 150 over 100. I had an ECG too and that was normal.

I have a review with my GP and DN on the 11th Jan. They will know the c-peptide results and we will review my treatment. I'm also doing the Xpert course for 6 weeks and am pretty committed to staying as low carb as possible. I may have to cut some fat though to bring down my cholesterol. My DN is lovely, very encouraging and keeps telling me how impressed she is with how hard I've worked. The big question will be when I see the consultant opthalmologist at the end of January and if my moderate retinopathy needs further treatment.

I just needed to write all this down for myself somewhere so sorry if this a bit of an information dump!

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phil1966 said:

Had my first annual review today and it was generally very good

My HbA1C is slightly up from August (from 39 to 43) which is probably explained by my increased carb consumption (I've finished dieting now and am eating 2,000 calories a day instead of 1,500) and the DN said it's nothing to be concerned about as it's still massively down from the 107 it was a year ago!

On a far more positive note, all my blood count readings are perfect, my BMI (at 22.4) is the lowest it's been since I was a teenager and my BP at 111/65 is also excellent

The DN was brilliant - she seemed genuinely interested in how I'd managed to get things under control and basically turn my life around (this time last year I was massively overweight, had out of control blood sugar, high cholesterol and borderline high BP). We had a good chat about testing and she seemed relieved that I understood that lack of NHS funding meant I would have to continue funding my test strips myself (however, she never tried to dissuade me from self-testing).

The end result of the review was that I'm staying on the same medication (500mg metformin 2x a day) - she did say she considered suggesting trying diet alone but as I have no adverse reactions at all to metformin and my HbA1c had crept up a bit it was worth staying on them for the time being) and I'll have another review in a year (again, she said I could have a review more frequently if I wanted but that I didn't really need one and we agreed the money would be better spent on people who aren't as lucky as me with their control)

Overall, I'm very happy with the way it went and I'd give 10/10 to the DN - she was engaged, interested, caring and not in the slightest bit condescending

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phil1966 said:

Had my first annual review today and it was generally very good

My HbA1C is slightly up from August (from 39 to 43) which is probably explained by my increased carb consumption (I've finished dieting now and am eating 2,000 calories a day instead of 1,500) and the DN said it's nothing to be concerned about as it's still massively down from the 107 it was a year ago!

On a far more positive note, all my blood count readings are perfect, my BMI (at 22.4) is the lowest it's been since I was a teenager and my BP at 111/65 is also excellent

The DN was brilliant - she seemed genuinely interested in how I'd managed to get things under control and basically turn my life around (this time last year I was massively overweight, had out of control blood sugar, high cholesterol and borderline high BP). We had a good chat about testing and she seemed relieved that I understood that lack of NHS funding meant I would have to continue funding my test strips myself (however, she never tried to dissuade me from self-testing).

The end result of the review was that I'm staying on the same medication (500mg metformin 2x a day) - she did say she considered suggesting trying diet alone but as I have no adverse reactions at all to metformin and my HbA1c had crept up a bit it was worth staying on them for the time being) and I'll have another review in a year (again, she said I could have a review more frequently if I wanted but that I didn't really need one and we agreed the money would be better spent on people who aren't as lucky as me with their control)

Overall, I'm very happy with the way it went and I'd give 10/10 to the DN - she was engaged, interested, caring and not in the slightest bit condescending

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13lizanne said:

@loulou99782 are you ok? We need to pray some peace and tranquility for you, you do lead an adventurous life recently. Was anyone else hurt?

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