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Hi All,
I have joined to read all the information and be prepared for what i expect to be a diagnosis soon.
I had bloods taken and the A1c result has shown on my NHS app as 113. I believe this is mmol/mol. The GP receptionist rang me to make another appointment for more bloods in 6 weeks, but this was before the A1c result was posted. They are concerned about Liver Function.
Anyhow, just wanted to say hi, and you may see me around a bit more soon .
 
Welcome to the forum. I expect with an HbA1C of 113mmol/mol they would be wanting to see you pretty promptly as that is a pretty high level.
It is likely you will be prescribed some medication to help get your number down but you should also be looking at some dietary changes as well.
Do read around the forum and the learning zone is a good place to look for information to give you a better understanding.
This link may also help with some suggestions for making dietary changes which many have found successful in reducing blood glucose and losing weight if you need to.
lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk

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Obviously the approach you take may depend on the medications you might be prescribed.
 
Thankyou for the link, yes it sounds like a lot of dietary changes needed. I am a little high on BMI as well, but not too far, so a bit of a shock all round, but there have been some symptoms. I will have a good read.
I am expecting a call back Monday, if i havent heard anything by lunchtime i will be chasing them up, just for own piece of mind.
 
My HbA1c was a little lower for my diagnosis bloods, but I also had liver function test results outside of normal range (and high cholesterol). You will need to see what your GP says, but it is possible that the combination of high HbA1c and high LFTs indicates visceral fat around your liver impacting on its usual function. If that is the case then trying to lose that extra weight/fat may help, but with an HbA1c above 100 your GP may well want you on some medication not just trying to manage with just dietary changes.

Either way, there is plenty of support here as you adapt to the shock and figure out what next 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum @bovwaa

Hope you are able to get a follow-up appointment to discuss your HbA1c result earlier than the 6 weeks (sometimes surgeries prefer to confirm a borderline elevated HbA1c before giving a diagnosis, but yours seems quite high).

You might also like to register with the Learning Zone, which has loads of bite-sized modules you can work through to give you a good understanding of diabetes - though you may want to wait for your diabetes type to be confirmed.

Have your symptoms come on suddenly? Have you experienced any unintentional weight loss?
 
Thanks both for your responses. I would hope the GP would follow up quicker, but we will see...
I will sign up to that as well and read through the modules.
Symptoms have got worse over last few months. I didn't think anything of symptoms previous, my partners mum had diabetes and she said to me it all seems to add up and i should get checked.

I havent lost weight as such but my waist has lost inches and arms as my watch became loose, but weight was only 2kg less, however again my partner says she could see weight loss in arms and maybe muscle mass.
 
Welcome to the forum @bovwaa. I am pleased that you have found the forum.

Do take a look around the Learning Zone, and at some of the threads on here. Fire away with any questions that arise, and know that nothing is considered silly on here.
 
Thankyou , i will have a proper look around over the next couple of days. My partner is probably more concerned than me at the moment, but i am glad these resources are out there.
 
I'm certainly not an expert and only recently diagnosed Type 2 myself but you should definitely follow-up with your GP as soon as you can. My HbA1c was 96 and the surgery rang me the same day the blood results came back and also booked me an urgent appointment the same day. They started me on medication the same day as well. It then took Boots 4 days to fulfill the prescription but that's another story 🙂

Hopefully you get the support you need from your GP.
 
Hi, Yes I was expecting a quick follow up, I chased the surgery yesterday and they said they will give a call back - that never happened, again today i have chased and am awaiting a 'definite call back today', to discuss results. Hopefully, they will honour this and get back ASAp. Thanks for your comment, and i would have thought they would also have wanted to start the medication etc...
 
I got a phone call telling me the result ("You're diabetic, don't eat chips!") and they setup a prescription there and then electronically - it was in the pharmacy the next day!
 
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I got a phone call telling me the result ("You're diabetic, don't eat chips!") and they setup a prescription there and then electronically - it was in the pharmacy the next day!
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That sounds like my doctor.
It was a Saturday afternoon, and she said about the same, but without the word "chips" on the end, and booked me in for Monday morning. :rofl:
 
bovwaa said:
Hi, Yes I was expecting a quick follow up, I chased the surgery yesterday and they said they will give a call back - that never happened, again today i have chased and am awaiting a 'definite call back today', to discuss results. Hopefully, they will honour this and get back ASAp. Thanks for your comment, and i would have thought they would also have wanted to start the medication etc...
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Sometimes you have to chase them.
Unfortunately some of their patients aren't as pro active as we are on here, and it rubs off on the GP sometimes, but if you show them you want to help yourself, they normally get on board.
 
I had a call back from the receptionist today, so still bo contact with GP but they have booked me in for a diabetic review 13th Feb, with a follow up bloodtest 22nd feb . Seems a wait still, but apparently thats as close a date i can get .
 
bovwaa said:
I had a call back from the receptionist today, so still bo contact with GP but they have booked me in for a diabetic review 13th Feb, with a follow up bloodtest 22nd feb . Seems a wait still, but apparently thats as close a date i can get .
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I was furious to be fobbed off and made to wait 10 days in ignorance, and my Hba1c was 91 - I think you might make a start by assessing your carbohydrate intake over the next week or so, just so you have a starting point and something to tell whoever you see.
If you are an ordinary unexciting type 2 then lowering your intake of carbs and seeing your blood glucose levels reduce is almost a given.
I went from Hba1c to 91 to 47 in 80 days - that was rather indicative of the type of personality I have - typical Aries even though I don't believe a word of it, but head down and charge at it sums up my normal way of working. What I should have done is cut down gradually. I knew that 50 gm of carbs a day was an ideal amount when eating Atkins, and a blood glucose meter confirmed that it fixed my elevated blood glucose levels - 17.1 at diagnosis, and brought it down under 8 after meals quite quickly, then it continued to drop until it was under 7 and I had a Hba1c of 41.
 
Yes thankyou, i think its still a long time to wait for an appointment, gowever, myself and partner have started looking at changes etc we can make. She wants to do alongside to support me.
I will document and speak to the nurse about it then. It will all be pretty interesting as well as concerning.
Also will be doing a few extra walks to get a bit more active. We have a very steep hill to walk back up to get home, lol
 
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I havent lost weight as such but my waist has lost inches and arms as my watch became loose, but weight was only 2kg less, however again my partner says she could see weight loss in arms and maybe muscle mass.
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If you find you keep getting thinner (without trying) bear in mind that that's a symptom of type 1, and the GP may not think of testing for type 1 as it's rare and most GPs tend to think only children get it (actually around half the people who get it are adults at the time). Hopefully reducing carbs in your diet and getting a bit more exercise will reduce your HbA1c and improve your health generally and you'll get your type 2 diagnosis at the surgery in a couple of weeks, but if your HbA1c doesn't go down and/or you start to feel worse, do ask them to test for type 1 (and check the symptoms of DKA to make sure you don't get them, that would be a medical emergency and you'd need to go to A&E and not wait for the surgery appointment).
 
Thankyou for your reply, I will keep an eye on that, i hadn't thought that way about a possible Type 1, but alot of that comes from not having really had any input from the surgery as of yet. This forum and lots of googling gives a very good amount of information though. Everyone on here seems so supportive
 
Hi All, just an update, finally had an appointment with the nurse today. She took more bloods, to check if type 1 or 2, she initially thought 1 and was telling me all about insulin, but having spoken to the hospital now believes it to be 2. I will know the results in 1-2 weeks apparently. However, following on from that, i need to go into GP tomorrow and then back to the nurse. The hospital has requested a urine sample to check for ketones, i will be on Metformin and Gliclazide from tomorrow, also they will give me a glucose monitor.
I still need bloods next week for Liver Function.
The fun starts now it seems.
 
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