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Welcome to the forum @Lis

Glad you have found us!

How long have you been living with diabetes? Do you take any medication? How are you finding it?

Ask away with any questions you may have, or just browse around and get stuck in 🙂 We are a friendly bunch, and there are lots of different styles and approaches of managing diabetes on the forum, whatever works for you! Bit if you have some frustrations and niggles, people will be only too happy to share their own experiences and what works for them 🙂
 
Got diagnosed nov 5 last year when I was battling Covid pneumonia and Covid diabetes and and was hospitalised 3 1/2 weeks and was on insulin and my hba1 was 66 then I was retested and was diagnosed type 2 and started on 2 500mg metformin and I was retest when I was home and my hba1 34 so they took me down to one metformin and just had my next blood work and my first eyes and feet done and I have my first face to face appointment with my diabetes nurse for my results since diagnosed with the joys of Covid times
 
Hi @Lis and welcome to the forum.
Your latest HbA1C of 34 is great. Are you still on insulin?
If not, what are you eating because such a reduction in HbA1C is unusual for those not either on insulin or on more powerful medication than metformin.
I Low Carb'd my way down to an HbA1C of 37 on no diabetes meds whatsoever.
 
No insulin I was only on it when I first diagnosed with Covid diabetes for 3 weeks and then moved to metformin twice a day now I’m only taking one a day and I’m doing SlimmingWorld with the diabetes team help and doing exercise if it just having a daily walk each day and lost 1st 2lb and I get weighed later today. Don’t get my new hba1 result until October 12 with a face to face appointment with the diabete nurse
 
Lis said:
Got diagnosed nov 5 last year when I was battling Covid pneumonia and Covid diabetes and and was hospitalised 3 1/2 weeks and was on insulin and my hba1 was 66 then I was retested and was diagnosed type 2 and started on 2 500mg metformin and I was retest when I was home and my hba1 34 so they took me down to one metformin and just had my next blood work and my first eyes and feet done and I have my first face to face appointment with my diabetes nurse for my results since diagnosed with the joys of Covid times
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Welcome @Lis 🙂 What a stressful time that must have been! I hope you’re fully recovered from the Covid now.
 
I’m getting there one of my lungs are not fully healed yet so it’s been watched by the GP and it was stressful and scary too
 
Congratulations on your HbA1c reduction @Lis - sorry you’ve been having such a worrying and stressful time.

Hope your lungs continue to improve.
 
They should in time and I’ve got a lovely gp surgery who will be keeping a close eye on I been told by them
 
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