Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Well, my appointment is tomorrow morning - any last guesses? 🙂
Are you the only Type 1 on here in the 5s or are there others, just as a matter of interest?
And the winners are...Jennywren, Natailie123 and nomorecakes! A very respectable 5.4%!All the other readings were good. Cholesterol was above 4 but he said he wasn't worried as the ratio was good, kidneys fine, BMI excellent, I've lost 3kg since last visit 6 months ago, so we had nothing much to talk about really! He did look at my injection sites and suggest changing them for a while - said I may need to reduce insulin doses as I could need up to 20% less. I didn't think they were that bad, but there again I only tend to see mine and he must see hundreds!
Right, I think I'll go out and buy some cake and beer! 😉
And the winners are...Jennywren, Natailie123 and nomorecakes! A very respectable 5.4%!All the other readings were good. Cholesterol was above 4 but he said he wasn't worried as the ratio was good, kidneys fine, BMI excellent, I've lost 3kg since last visit 6 months ago, so we had nothing much to talk about really! He did look at my injection sites and suggest changing them for a while - said I may need to reduce insulin doses as I could need up to 20% less. I didn't think they were that bad, but there again I only tend to see mine and he must see hundreds!
Right, I think I'll go out and buy some cake and beer! 😉
And the winners are...Jennywren, Natailie123 and nomorecakes! A very respectable 5.4%!All the other readings were good. Cholesterol was above 4 but he said he wasn't worried as the ratio was good, kidneys fine, BMI excellent, I've lost 3kg since last visit 6 months ago, so we had nothing much to talk about really! He did look at my injection sites and suggest changing them for a while - said I may need to reduce insulin doses as I could need up to 20% less. I didn't think they were that bad, but there again I only tend to see mine and he must see hundreds!
Right, I think I'll go out and buy some cake and beer! 😉
Well done Alan! Glad you came out of your consultation up beat.
I am intrigued about something though.
Did your consultant ask you how many hypos you have? Did he give you the lecture of more than 1 a week is too many?
Have you been having a lot of hypos? If you have, do you feel it's impacted your hypo awareness at all?
Only asking because I got a roasting at having a HbA1c of 5.9% at my last consultation and I was having roughly 1 hypo every other day and was told this was far too many and that if I continued my hypo awareness would gradually get worse and worse. I was given my result as 5.9% and was overjoyed, but after my consultation I came out feeling as low as I've ever felt since diagnosis. You may remember my post about my experience back in February.
I was told to get my HbA1c up between 6.5-7.5% and reduce my hypos to 1 per week, as the aim for my next meeting.
Just interested about how consultant's opinions and take on things may vary. 🙂
Alan, that's fantastic news. Well done, I'm hoping to get into the 5% club soon too, but strangely, my gp thinks that's too low?
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