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Hello everyone!
40 year old dude here, 181cm 109kg.
I was diagnosed with T2 around 1,5 months ago, with a fasting glucose reading of 7 and a pretty high Hba1c of 77. Due to also having high BP (160/85) the doc wanted to put me on Losartan 100mg and Metformin. After doing some soul searching and reading around a bit I decided to try to fight it by lifestyle changes. Thus I okayed the Losartan but said no to the Metformin. I also started a somewhat strict CICO diet staying between 1600 - 2400 cals most days while keeping my carbs fairly low, around 100-150g each day. I also started doing lots of brisk walks (9-9.30mins/km) totalling 600-1000 cals almost every day. I changed my sleeping habits (it was easier to sleep with all the walking lol) to be more regular and halved my tobacco usage (I do this Swedish "snus" under the lip tobacco). Even with all this I was prepared to fight long and hard to make a significant difference to my condition. Yesterday I had my first follow-up Hba1c testing and I was super nervous. I was hoping for at most a change of 10 or so, also deathly afraid that my changes wouldn't have made any difference at all.
After we had talked over my change in habits the nurse offered me my free glucose meter (dunno why I didn't get one at diagnosis) and while showing me how to use it we did a test. It showed 5.5, 2h after lunch! Both the nurse and the nursing student she had in tow remarked on how good a reading it was and I felt a glimmer of hope. I was still extremely nervous when they left for the lab with my blood work and my mind raced (of course they put a BP meter on me and told me to relax before they left, like waiting for THAT kind of sentence would give a good reading). When they came back they had totally impassive faces and I swore sadly inside. They took my BP, which of course was high, and then came the judgement. I had an Hba1c of... 38! I was both shocked and overjoyed, could hardly believe it. The nurse was almost as happy as me and I left her office feeling like skipping and jumping.
I DO know that this doesn't mean I'm cured, and I still have to watch what I eat. 38 mmol/mol isn't that good on its own either, but hopefully I can bring it down some more with weight loss and better fitness, I have a goal to fight my weight into overweight rather than obesity within 6 months.
Though I also started thinking. Is this a bit too good to be true? Should it even be possible to lower glucose like this? Could my high Hba1c reading have been due to some other faction like heart condition, infection or inflammation in the first place (though of course they did ECG, blood and kidney tests when I was diagnosed)? Or should I just be happy? I feel better, generally, than I have in years. Still, it's hard not to doubt...
40 year old dude here, 181cm 109kg.
I was diagnosed with T2 around 1,5 months ago, with a fasting glucose reading of 7 and a pretty high Hba1c of 77. Due to also having high BP (160/85) the doc wanted to put me on Losartan 100mg and Metformin. After doing some soul searching and reading around a bit I decided to try to fight it by lifestyle changes. Thus I okayed the Losartan but said no to the Metformin. I also started a somewhat strict CICO diet staying between 1600 - 2400 cals most days while keeping my carbs fairly low, around 100-150g each day. I also started doing lots of brisk walks (9-9.30mins/km) totalling 600-1000 cals almost every day. I changed my sleeping habits (it was easier to sleep with all the walking lol) to be more regular and halved my tobacco usage (I do this Swedish "snus" under the lip tobacco). Even with all this I was prepared to fight long and hard to make a significant difference to my condition. Yesterday I had my first follow-up Hba1c testing and I was super nervous. I was hoping for at most a change of 10 or so, also deathly afraid that my changes wouldn't have made any difference at all.
After we had talked over my change in habits the nurse offered me my free glucose meter (dunno why I didn't get one at diagnosis) and while showing me how to use it we did a test. It showed 5.5, 2h after lunch! Both the nurse and the nursing student she had in tow remarked on how good a reading it was and I felt a glimmer of hope. I was still extremely nervous when they left for the lab with my blood work and my mind raced (of course they put a BP meter on me and told me to relax before they left, like waiting for THAT kind of sentence would give a good reading). When they came back they had totally impassive faces and I swore sadly inside. They took my BP, which of course was high, and then came the judgement. I had an Hba1c of... 38! I was both shocked and overjoyed, could hardly believe it. The nurse was almost as happy as me and I left her office feeling like skipping and jumping.
I DO know that this doesn't mean I'm cured, and I still have to watch what I eat. 38 mmol/mol isn't that good on its own either, but hopefully I can bring it down some more with weight loss and better fitness, I have a goal to fight my weight into overweight rather than obesity within 6 months.
Though I also started thinking. Is this a bit too good to be true? Should it even be possible to lower glucose like this? Could my high Hba1c reading have been due to some other faction like heart condition, infection or inflammation in the first place (though of course they did ECG, blood and kidney tests when I was diagnosed)? Or should I just be happy? I feel better, generally, than I have in years. Still, it's hard not to doubt...