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Good news...sorry, I have to share or I will burst!

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Vonny

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Had my bloods done yesterday and the DN phoned me today with the results. Cholesterol down from 5.7 to 5 and the doctor still wants to put me on statins. However....drum roll.... my hba1c is 37! :D My metformin is being reduced from 3 to 2 per day and they will do more tests in 3 months and look to reduce further if I'm stable. As you can tell, I am over the moon, going from 76 in April to 37 in 5 months. The DN asked how I'd lost 2.5 stone and reduced my glucose levels so well, and all I could say was exercise, very low carb diet and support from this lovely forum.

I still have 11lb to go to get to healthy BMI and more to get to my target. Moreover, I know that this is for life now. I've been given a second chance. I was born under a lucky star because they caught my breast cancer really early on (in 2010) and I only had to have an op and radiotherapy, no chemo. They caught this before I had chance to develop kidney or eye complications.

Thanks everyone for your support and help getting me through the first few months of the D journey. I've no doubt you'll keep me going for a long time yet x
 
That is amazing news. Well done to you. You've obviously worked hard to get those results so you have every right to be proud of yourself. Congratulations!
 
Excellent news!
 
Absolutely delighted for you Vonny! You have worked so hard and done so well on weight loss and managing your levels so getting that normal HbA1c reading must be like getting an A* exam result. Many congratulations!
I am sure others will find your result an inspiration. Thanks for posting.
 
Great news Vonny well done 🙂
So good to see all the hard work is producing the results you were striving for.
 
Brilliant! Well done @Vonny.🙂
 
Congratulations Vonny, keep it up and you will lose that last 11lb and hopefully your cholesterol results will come dow on too
 
Congratulations!
 
@Vonny That’s splendid news! Seriously well done you!
 
Brill Vonny!

A-hem to your doctor; so 37 means you would not be diagnosed diabetic today and as far as I know the chol threshold for non diabetic people unless they have co-existing risks of CV events is 5. So they'd need to explain what overrides that threshold and still indicates prescription of statins - unless of course Vonny already knows what it is.
 
Oh WOW I am so pleased for you. Well done
 
trophywench said:
Brill Vonny!

A-hem to your doctor; so 37 means you would not be diagnosed diabetic today and as far as I know the chol threshold for non diabetic people unless they have co-existing risks of CV events is 5. So they'd need to explain what overrides that threshold and still indicates prescription of statins - unless of course Vonny already knows what it is.
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Well said Jenny! I argued this with the nurse and apparently I am at 16% risk of heart issues as my BMI is 27 and the doc prescribes statins for anyone over 10%. Working on the basis that once I'm down to <25 BMI I should fall under 10%, I'm not going to take the statins at the moment. When I lived in Shropshire, the trust automatically put everyone over 50 onto statins!
 
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Brilliant news @Vonny. No wonder you were bursting to share this.
 
Well done @Vonny. Hope we have stopped you bursting, that would have been very, very, messy. 🙂
 
Well done.
 
Fantastic. Well done on your hard work. 🙂
 
Such wonderful news @Vonny

Massive congratulations to you, and really lovely to see all your hard work paying off.

Hope the remaining weight comes off smoothly, and your excellent diabetes management and results continue long into the future.

Lovely to have been asked ‘how did you manage that?!’ eh! Just goes to show the power of peer support, and a reduced carb approach 🙂
 
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