Can I have some advice please. I haven't been diagnosed yet. I have P.C.O.S which can cause insulin resistance. I have been having 'Funny turns' so have started testing my blood sugars first thing in the morning for a couple of weeks and they are usually between 6 and 8. Do you think I have enough evidence to go to the drs and say that i think this is part of it. Yesterday 7.5 today 6.7 I'm unsure what should be normal.
Can I have some advice please. I haven't been diagnosed yet. I have P.C.O.S which can cause insulin resistance. I have been having 'Funny turns' so have started testing my blood sugars first thing in the morning for a couple of weeks and they are usually between 6 and 8. Do you think I have enough evidence to go to the drs and say that i think this is part of it. Yesterday 7.5 today 6.7 I'm unsure what should be normal.
Fbg this a.m. 4.1 ketones 3.6
It seems interesting to me that many GPs still claim ignorance of best ways to treat T2D when it has been increasing in population numbers for so many years. I am wondering why there is not an intervention in place to increase their understanding of the mechanisms involved. Or why most seem content to go along with parroting advice that really is not good, instead of undertaking their own research. I often give my GP printouts of interesting research findings and he has changed his attitude from .dire warnings of dangerous outcomes when I have made experiments, to almost encouragement when Seeing the results.
Pleased you found one it makes it much cheaper you do get a gps report with your results all on following day after posting - well I did both times put in post one day and results and report online by following afternoon.Hi and thanks so much. Your code didnt work but it didnt take me too long to find one that did. For anyone reading this and interested the code is : HEALTHTRACK
OK here we go
Latest Results from my DN visit earlier today.
HbA1c is 29 (4.8%) - up a little as expected because of weight stabilisation but I'm pretty happy, it was 27 last time
total cholesterol - 4.6 mmol/L
Triglycerides - 0.6
HDL - 1.4
Calculated LDL - 2.9
Non HDL cholesterol 3.2
Sodium/Potassium/Urea/Creatinine all within normal range.
Chloride was 109 showing high against the range 95-108 but, given the other results, the nurse says not worrying because probably a touch of dehydration after fasting.
eGFR >90 (normal)
All toes suitably ticklish
weight 68.2Kg fully dressed.
BP 110/72
Nurse was very pleased and says she wished she had more like meapparently I'm an inspiration.
I hadn't seen this particular nurse before and we had a good conversation about me doing LCHF and the benefits, she asked intelligent questions and seemed fairly open to the idea.
I'm really pleased I've managed to keep my weight and BG fairly stable and managed to push my HDL up a bit. Couldn't have done it without LCHF and the support of you friendly people, so thank you all
That's 2 years of non diabetic HbA1c's, so in celebration I'll change my description to 'in remission'
Just a urine sample to provide now. Next test in 6 months.
No doctor or nurse ever told me not to test - I wouldn't want to make generalisations and disparage a whole profession or exonerate bad examples. Guess I was fortunate then.Every time a doctor told you not to test you believed it? I don't think so, so what was that if it wasn't hogwash?.
Your experience of the medical profession seems to have been less happy than mine. I have no reason to doubt your experience but apparently mine may be unusual.Sorry, but on one or several occasions qualified medical practitioners have tried that approach with me when the are afraid to admit I don't know. I check and recheck if I didn't I would be dead. Blunt but true.
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