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I’m just over 2 months into a 6 month new type of insulin trial. Now the life cycle of blood corpuscles is 3 months. So my HbA1C would have included a whole month where I was on my old bad eating habits. My next one will be testing the whole 3 months where I’ll have been eating healthy food in correct amaounts. Looking forward to that result too!
Anyway I rang for the result a little while ago. It dropped from the last result of 7.5 to 6.6
It’s a logarithmic scale so the change is significant! Under 7 is considered to be the normal range. This is the first time ever that I can remember that I have been under.Second goal reached is that I have broken through 90 kgs for the first time in many years so I’ve lost maybe 7 kgs in 2 months. I found it hard to lose as I’m on insulin which tends to put on weight. Breakfast bgl’s average now is just above 4.5. I chart all 4 daily measurements. I have to test that often as part of the trial and transmit the results daily back to base. If I ‘cheat’ by eating too much, they will know
What a fantastically great incentive it is to be on a trial. I thoroughly recommend it to everyone.
red
- This topic was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by redadare.
Well done red, great achievement.
You must feel very pleased with yourself. Thanks for sharing
Congrats Red!
Go Red!!!!!!!
Helen
May I add a third goal?
This morning I was given the go-ahead to taking 10 units of long lasting insulin.
This then HALVES what I was on 2 months ago!!!
Just come back from the Eye Specialist. He was really quite chuffed as I had lost 13kgs in the last 5 months and my successive HbA1c’s ranged from my last visit of 7.3 to 6.6 then currently 6.3. He said that it’s rare to find a diabetic under 6.5.
I could have been lined up for my third injection into the eye today if things had got worse BUT the opposite happened. The retinopathy has actually improved. I’m due to go back in 6 months instead of the usual 3 to 4.
Insulin doses :- I have now halved the Bolus before each meal and I’m on a third of the Basel that I used to use.
I’ve taken myself off Blood Pressure tablets with the pressure now 130/75
So things are going GREAT!
It really really is well worth losing weight.
red
Congratulations red. You must be feeling really please with these results.
Hi Red – have not connected for while! Fantastic news! Well done, you must feel so much better in yourself. Do you want to share what you are doing to lose the weight?
Hope all is well with you
Helen
Hi Helen. I’ve posted a few times of the 6 month insulin trial I’m on. Nearing the end now
. Because I’m being monitored on a daily basis, it gave me incentive to try to do the right thing. For breakfast I have 1½ Weetbix. This lasts for 6 hours til lunch with only cups of coffee as a fill in. Lunch is a 95gm tin of tuna with salad (lettuce, grated carrot) and dinner 6 hours after that which varies. I don’t do very much in the way of exercise but occasionally I go down the nearby Sturt Gorge. The heartrate skyrockets on the way back up!So I’m now eating good healthy food with the total support of my wife. My next BGL test (and I have 4 a day) tells me how well I went with the last meal. The trial people gave me lots of info at the start on food values. It was a bit of a shock as to how “potent” some foods were – and they were right. I was vastly over eating beforehand with snacks being the worst enemy. I have had many people at work asking if I have lost weight just by seeing the difference in the face. I still have to lose another 5 kgs to get to the BMI of 25 though. Why did I wait until I was almost 65 to feel SO much better?
Hi Red,
Like many people on trials they are more focussed than usual. What advice might you have for others who are not on trials to focus on their diabetes self management the same as one would do when on such a trial?
Might it be helpful to write a “Diabetes Contract” with oneself or with ones loved ones? Something like what you went through with the trail.
Cheers,
David
David. I had one other incentive. Two visits ago my Opthamologist was in two minds as whether to give me a third injection into the eye. Luckily for me he decided to postpone it for consideration at the next visit. That last visit showed significant improvement. I’m also registered for a Health Care Team schedule – or what ever its proper name is where I get free or subsidised visits to various professionals. eg Doctor, Dietician, Podiatry. I was even lucky enough to get free dental until that scheme closed down recently. The whole idea is to reinforce how important it is to get diabetes under control as much as possible. Unfortunately the doc rarely sees anyone acting on his advice. This, I think, is the insideousness of diabetes – it’s silent. Eventually it begins to show itself – numbness of the toes and eye troubles. Well, it did with me. When I was discovered I was told that I was very lucky indeed that I hadn’t had a heart attack. Very overweight with cholesterol skyhigh yet it took me 6 years before I actually tried to seriously do something about it.
So if you do decide to do something about it, having your partner’s total support is FANTASTIC if not ESSENTIAL. I would recommend 4 tests a day with a weigh-in first thing. Write it all down in a notebook. Sure the weight goes up and down from day to day but overall you’ll see which general direction it’s headed. You could graph it too which gives an instant graphical appreciation of where you are. The 3 month HbA1c is the ultimate test of how well your control has been. We all tend to overeat. The word “diet” gives visions of minimal food and inevitable weight loss but that really should be the amount and type of food we should be eating ALL of the time. It really is amazing how little food the body actually needs. Diets are not a case of Will power- it’s a case of WON’T Power – I WON’T have that little extra sweet thing etc
I also have a health care plan. It is a great incentive to visit the proper specialists. Even the general check up once a year to have the care plan ongoing is well worth it. It also gives you an idea of how you are doing compared to previous years. I always find it interesting how others are coping especially with diet. Diabetes is such a great mystery sometimes. I can eat the same thing two days running but my BSL can be quite different. Outside factors such as stress can have so much influence too.
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