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| Thu, 07-10-2008 - 5:13pm |
I am so excited!!!! When I was first diagnosed with diabetes (type 2), my A1C count was 7.5 and that was 3 yrs ago. The last two years, I have been running around 6.3 or 6.4 which my doctor was happy with. Well, today my count was 5.6!!!!! I think what has helped me is that the gluten and dairy intolerance has cut me back on carbs. Also, going to weight watchers and following their plan to lose weight. I always thought that if I can lose weight that maybe I would no longer be a diabetic. Today, my doctor said that that is not a maybe, but she thinks I definitely will be able to get off of medicine. Since the meds I take can help to put weight on you, or make it difficult to lose weight, she is letting me start Byetta and is cutting the meds I have been on in half. My daily numbers are great. My highest 2 hrs after breakfast is always under 100 and 2 hrs after dinner has been running from 82 to 108!! She said to watch my numbers and we may have to drop it even more then that!!! With dropping the dosage, I should be able to lose a little more weight then I am losing now.....which is 1/4 to 1/2 lb a week. Anyway, I am hoping that this will help me to maybe lose 1 lb a week. I would be estatic with that.!! The biggest and best news of all is that I may not be diabetic anymore with this weight off. It certainly helps when you stick to a strict diet and keep your numbers low. Good luck to all of you. Barbara

Congratulations on your a1c!
Barbara,
I want to say congratulations also!! It is wonderful that you are doing so well and I hope this continues for a very long time.
There is no cure for type 2 diabetes yet, but hopefully soon. Diabetes is a progressive disease and it gets worse over time. But there are ways to stretch that time out and that is what you are doing. Unfortunately diabetes causes damage on both the macro and the micro vascular levels. It is the micro that we don't see and feel. But it is this level that effects our hearts, kidneys, eyes and feet. By keeping your blood sugar under such good control you are preventing this damage and hopefully allowing any damage that has been done to heal.
So you are a poster girl for good diabetes management. Congratulations on your success.
Congrats! Getting that number down is awesome!
I just got my latest round of lab results back (dr appointment next week) and my A1C was back down to 6.0 - last time 3 months ago it was 6.2, the highest it has ever been in the year and a half since diagnosis (kind of understandable with the way things went from january to march this year). Now I'm looking to get it back UNDER 6.0 the way it was all last year. Not only that but my HDL stayed good (it's 66 and they want it over 50 for women) AND my LDL dropped like a rock. Last time it was somewhere around 110 - not bad but they wanted it under 100. This time it was in the mid 80s!!!! Kind of chuckling to myself because I guess those Cheerios commercials are right - I've been eating 1/2 cup Cheerios every morning for months (1/2 cup plus 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk, 1/4 cup crumbled pecans, and 1 teaspoon grain sweetened semi sweet chocolate bits - total carbs 23). Plus, I've been getting in 20-30 minutes exercise almost every day (I generally miss maybe a day a week, sometimes not even that).
--Deb
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