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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

Well done xx
 
jjraak said:
great news, and so simple.

so glad it's helping....and now i'm gonna store that one away for the bout of inflammation i get on
my knees, and if that helps ease the pain.
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the best thing for my fiftreen years plus of knee pain ...25 kgs loss since sept 2017,,,.....@jjraak,,,
 

Seems like a life time ago now so much water has gone under the proverbial bridge since then.
to start with yes I have managed to maintain pretty well normal blood sugars in the intervening time though my HbA1c has not remained static and MySugr app is now predicting a result in the low 40's.still in normal range a couple of months ago it was predicting under 34.

Also between then and now it was made plain to me by my diabetes consultant that I was in error considering myself a T2 that I am drug induced and what was classified as T3E this due to being on prednisolone for several years on a relatively high dosage. This is why I changed my profile from T2 in remission to other.

Problem is when my prednisolone dosage is altered as it was two or three times in the past months it disrupts my blood sugar control and as preds are indefinite for me it is now plain to me that what I perceived as being in remission was a temporary state for me and dependent on my meds and though I have managed to keep my bloods for the most part at a reasonably low level I have had wildly fluctuating levels.

So I'm sorry if my answer disappoints but no nothing is truly resolved for me I'm stuck with it as long as I take preds and as far I can see I won't be able in the foreseeable future to stop taking the **** things.

Not withstanding all that as I said by adjusting my diet and making sure I stay low enough with my carbohydrate in take and having lost weight and maintaining that weight loss my recent HbA1c tests have not gone back into the diabetic range I must thank you for reminding me how long I have been keeping things relatively under control I do feel that if it where not for the preds I would be able to say my diabetes is resolved

There is of course the bright side in as much as despite the difficulties I have remained in the non diabetic range for a longish period.

It does bring home to me how much diet is key in fighting and controlling diabetes T2 or T3E for that matter as Myasthenia makes exercise very near impossible the only option left to me was to tackle it by diet and meds (metformin only and low dose) and by and large that has worked for me.
 
Thank you John for your very considered response to my enquiry.
Your narrative was extremely interesting and you appear to be overcoming the issues induced by medication.

From a classic T2D perspective you certainly have things under control and I am in admiration of your efforts to remain in the normal range.

Very grateful for the information.
 
alf_Josiah said:
@JohnEGreen
I take my hat of to you maintaing your levels given the medications you are taking.
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I think you don't do so badly yourself as you have had to deal with the same problems and more. While maintaining your own very much appreciated good humor and sense of the ridiculous with the help of your good friends chaos and mayhem.
 
You are very welcome and I hope it was of some small use to you if you ever wan't some more info just ask.

Sorry I could not supply the numbers but will try and get them together and post them at some point if I can.
 
I keep seeing links to videos about a girl with an arrow on her nose ...
 
@Karen, I like the poster and the quote. It looks like a lobby poster for an upcoming movie. I would add in some orcs or maybe harpies flying across the clouds with their claws extended, and the second line as the teaser:
Do not be held down by what you can't control ...

And then you go in and sit down and a trailer comes up onscreen, a very civilized-looking group of people talking peaceably in a house by the side of a country road, while the night draws in, from Mount Crumpit*. And suddenly a bedraggled-looking robin lands on the windowsill and then looks back over his shoulder, out into the night ...

*It is not the cosy Mount Crumpet of tea parties and picnics, but ...
 
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