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Just picked up my labwork from the hospital – first A1C since dx 3 months ago and it is … 6.2 !! I’m so happy! No carb in the world is better than this.
Feb 13 my glucose was >600 and my A1C 14.7. This seems miraculous. I’m so fortunate my body has responded well to the paces I’ve put it through. I started on 2,000 mg metformin and after 10 days with sugar still up in the 200’s they added 5 mg glipizide. A month later I was able to reduce the glipizide to 2.5 mg and a week later dropped it altogether. I’m confident I’ll join the 5% club next A1C. I will, I will, I will.
My lipids, though moving in the right direction, still stink. I was expecting a bigger change in my triglycerides but need to be patient. First lipids were done 3/18 so I was already low-carbing for a month. They must’ve been crazy at dx.
Numbers are: March 18 / May 23
Cholesterol
221 – 241
Trig
191 – 164
HDL
35 – 41
LDL
155 – 174
Chol/HDL Ratio
6.3 - 5.9
LDL/HDL Ratio
4.4 – 4.2
I was out of range on all sorts of things in February, and now the only highlights are my lipids and glucose (104 – my meter said 88 when I woke up, 2 hours later was doing fasting labs so 104 made sense. Meter said 109 when I got home so meter seems pretty accurate.) A1C in normal range – woot!
I’m sincerely grateful for all the help and support I've gotten here. This is the first place I landed so will forever be my mother ship. You passed along your trials, errors, and research, enabling me to hit the ground running. I feel almost guilty for how easy you made it. There is a wonderful can-do spirit that is infectious and most definitely was the wind at my back.
Thanks guys.
Feb 13 my glucose was >600 and my A1C 14.7. This seems miraculous. I’m so fortunate my body has responded well to the paces I’ve put it through. I started on 2,000 mg metformin and after 10 days with sugar still up in the 200’s they added 5 mg glipizide. A month later I was able to reduce the glipizide to 2.5 mg and a week later dropped it altogether. I’m confident I’ll join the 5% club next A1C. I will, I will, I will.
My lipids, though moving in the right direction, still stink. I was expecting a bigger change in my triglycerides but need to be patient. First lipids were done 3/18 so I was already low-carbing for a month. They must’ve been crazy at dx.
Numbers are: March 18 / May 23
Cholesterol
221 – 241
Trig
191 – 164
HDL
35 – 41
LDL
155 – 174
Chol/HDL Ratio
6.3 - 5.9
LDL/HDL Ratio
4.4 – 4.2
I was out of range on all sorts of things in February, and now the only highlights are my lipids and glucose (104 – my meter said 88 when I woke up, 2 hours later was doing fasting labs so 104 made sense. Meter said 109 when I got home so meter seems pretty accurate.) A1C in normal range – woot!
I’m sincerely grateful for all the help and support I've gotten here. This is the first place I landed so will forever be my mother ship. You passed along your trials, errors, and research, enabling me to hit the ground running. I feel almost guilty for how easy you made it. There is a wonderful can-do spirit that is infectious and most definitely was the wind at my back.
Thanks guys.