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Hi all. I was recently diagnosed about 3 weeks ago. Since then I have been faithfully watching my food and carb intake, I've begun exercising 30-45 minutes per day, in addition to walking on my lunch break and have managed to lose 5 lbs. I test 6-10 times a day right now since I am trying to see if there are any patterns, etc. developing. When I was diagnosed, my A1c was 6.3.
Thus far my readings have all been pretty darn good...I test in the morning when I wake up, before lunch, 1 hr. and 2 hrs. after lunch, before dinner, 1 hr and 2 hrs after dinner and before bedtime. I also test whenever I am unsure about new foods and how my body will react to them.
Here's my question...for the last 21 days, my average has been 96 and I've never had any readings higher than 124 (my diagnosis day). I won't be taking another A1c until February, but I'm wondering if my meter readings will be a fairly close indicator (give or take) of my future A1C results or if I might be missing something. I'm just so concerned that my A1C results in February are going to come back higher, despite all of my good readings and all of my effort. I'm worried that I may be missing spikes even though I'm testing faithfully.
Any thoughts that might help ease my mind? I finally get to see my endo on Dec. 16 so maybe I should ask her that question, but I figured the best advice will come from fellow diabetics!
Thanks, all!
Thus far my readings have all been pretty darn good...I test in the morning when I wake up, before lunch, 1 hr. and 2 hrs. after lunch, before dinner, 1 hr and 2 hrs after dinner and before bedtime. I also test whenever I am unsure about new foods and how my body will react to them.
Here's my question...for the last 21 days, my average has been 96 and I've never had any readings higher than 124 (my diagnosis day). I won't be taking another A1c until February, but I'm wondering if my meter readings will be a fairly close indicator (give or take) of my future A1C results or if I might be missing something. I'm just so concerned that my A1C results in February are going to come back higher, despite all of my good readings and all of my effort. I'm worried that I may be missing spikes even though I'm testing faithfully.
Any thoughts that might help ease my mind? I finally get to see my endo on Dec. 16 so maybe I should ask her that question, but I figured the best advice will come from fellow diabetics!
Thanks, all!