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Follow up bloods from diagnosis

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trophywench said:
A large part of the argument you are able to use with your GP, is to show him from the scanner memory that you are spending less time at higher numbers which is borne out by your HbA1c.

This is exactly what happens with anyone using an insulin pump properly. Doesn't 'automatically' stop us spiking or plummeting if we get it wrong - but the amount of every day we spend at 'normal' levels cannot be anything but far better for us - whatever 'Type' label we happen to have etched onto our foreheads!
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Great idea - from what I have gleaned on the Libre group on FB, there are a couple of reports that are really key - and I have them printed, together with food and exercise diary from MFP and blood pressure charts for good measure.

Poor guy won't know what hit him! Pharmacist pointed out that our local surgery also has its fair share of people who refuse to give up their eating habits and ARE happy to take tablets until kingdom come, which he felt could explain why my GP was so ambivalent towards my measures.

I can't speak for them, and I covet my best mate's roast potatoes when we cycle up to the local pub for the occasional Sunday roast. But that's them. That's not for me. This was a massive wake-up call in the middle of a stressful year - lost my mother suddenly at the start of Feb and everything went haywire pretty much from that point to yesterday, when I finally got all my paperwork up to date, having spent 9 months sorting out probate.

I can't help feeling some of the improvement is the planets starting to align a bit after whizzing around me in reckless abandon. Then again I have 10 days in Singapore with 3am finishes almost every night coming up ... !!!
 
Sorry RFS, only just caught up with this. Fantastic result, well done 🙂
 
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