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Originally Posted by Globemaster
My HA1c was 10+ (they stopped @10). That was in December 2011. I am one of those people that hates doctors so did not go until my vision stated blurring up (Stupid). By blood sugar was so bad they put me on 1000mg tables for it. After five months I have dropped 50lbs and my HA1c in now maintained between 4.5 and 4.8. My doctor gives me no indication that I will ever come off medication in fact it is the opposite for me. The way he talks I will be on meds the rest of my life. I still test my blood twice a day seven days a week. Glad to here yours worked out better than mine. I never give up I keep my blood sugar below 100 every time it is tested I eat a lot of apples. Very little if any fried foods, gallons of water (the weight loss has slowed) I also do 3.5 miles 3 time a week (walk/run knees don’t take impact well) working on doing more (Not an exercise person gave that up after 20+ years in the military).
So after all that I do have some questions.
Did they say you are non-diabetic or a controlled diabetic?
Do you test your blood still?
How often do you have to get blood work?
Sorry for being nosey I went thru the dietician’s class not much help figured I might get some info from someone that has experienced it.
Thank you
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When I was first diagnosed my A1C had been 5.8 6 months earlier and then jumped to 8.3. It hovered in the 7-8 range for the next 12 months. My doctor called me a pre-diabetic with Type 2. At the time she told me with weight loss and exercise, I couple reverse it. At my last blood work, I was 5.5, and she told me my diabetes was gone. She did not use Cured or controlled, just gone. She told me keep the weight off, continue to exercise and it will not come back. I will try and get a more clear answer on if I am still a diabetic, but controlled or if it is gone.
I have been getting blood work every 6 months for the last 7 years. My wife, who I met 8 years ago and married 6 years ago on May 6th is a stickler for preventative medicine and regular check ups. If she had not pushed me, I would probably have waited like you did.
She has told me to test my blood every other day for the next 6 months, more as a preventative. I had been on 500 MG of Metformin every day, but she has pulled me off of that. She wants to confirm that going off will not have an adverse effect. I have been testing every morning in the 85-95 range for the last 6 weeks. I am not 5 days without the meds and my sugar has not going up when I test. The concern is more for my liver. My ast was 261 and alt 380 6 months ago. Now they are at 58 and 115. She is continuing to monitor those as well, but with the metformin out of my system the ALT should go down below 100 in the next 6 months.
Your not being nosey. I have learned one strong fact in the last 3 months. I needed to be healed accountable to someone other than myself to help kick this journey off. I am now self motivated, but it talk my Mother-in-law and Wife both beating on me to kick start this journey.
As for my wife, she also started a weight loss with me and has done great. She just ordered online a bikini in small and it came in today and it fits!. She is ecstatic. I am proud of her.