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<blockquote data-quote="lrw60" data-source="post: 375651" data-attributes="member: 64443"><p>I am ashamed to say that before I found this forum I had never come across the term HbA1c. I don't know if my db nurse had ever mentioned it or if I had just not heard her if she said it. I do remember that over the several years I had db that my meds seemed to go up with each visit to her. I remember my metformin going up over the years to 4 pills per day which I think was 2000mg. (I wait to be corrected!) I do remember the first time my nurse started to reduce my meds and how amazed she was. It took 18 months before she would finally confirm that I no longer needed meds. I want to say "it had gone" but of course I now know, thanks to this forum once again, that I am not cured, I just don't have the need for medication to control my db. I am having a blood test next month which means that soon after I will be seeing my db nurse for the first time since I was taken off the meds last July. I will ask her if I can have any details of the way my db progressed over the years and then went away. I do firmly believe that there is a connection with weight and carbs. I am hoping to catch up with a friend soon who is also diabetic. He is a bit shorter than me, I am 5'9" and he is not much overweight but he has much worse db than I did and his meds have been raised in the past year. I will be asking him about his diet now I have learnt a bit more from this forum. If he is eating too many carbs I might be able to point him to a better diet.</p><p>Keep at it flicc90, but stay away from "fad" diets. With Weight Watchers I could eat anything I wanted, any foods I felt like, but in controlled amounts. And being diabetic we know about control don't we!</p><p>Lee</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lrw60, post: 375651, member: 64443"] I am ashamed to say that before I found this forum I had never come across the term HbA1c. I don't know if my db nurse had ever mentioned it or if I had just not heard her if she said it. I do remember that over the several years I had db that my meds seemed to go up with each visit to her. I remember my metformin going up over the years to 4 pills per day which I think was 2000mg. (I wait to be corrected!) I do remember the first time my nurse started to reduce my meds and how amazed she was. It took 18 months before she would finally confirm that I no longer needed meds. I want to say "it had gone" but of course I now know, thanks to this forum once again, that I am not cured, I just don't have the need for medication to control my db. I am having a blood test next month which means that soon after I will be seeing my db nurse for the first time since I was taken off the meds last July. I will ask her if I can have any details of the way my db progressed over the years and then went away. I do firmly believe that there is a connection with weight and carbs. I am hoping to catch up with a friend soon who is also diabetic. He is a bit shorter than me, I am 5'9" and he is not much overweight but he has much worse db than I did and his meds have been raised in the past year. I will be asking him about his diet now I have learnt a bit more from this forum. If he is eating too many carbs I might be able to point him to a better diet. Keep at it flicc90, but stay away from "fad" diets. With Weight Watchers I could eat anything I wanted, any foods I felt like, but in controlled amounts. And being diabetic we know about control don't we! Lee [/QUOTE]
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