Hi everyone.
Very recently diagnosed type 2 here (early Jan) - did the full gamut of blood tests due to thunderclap headaches before Christmas and an a1c was in there. Headaches were caused by a new pillow and a mucked up neck, turns out, but the a1c came back at 85 (!). Was a bit of a shock as at the time I didn’t think it ran in my family (turns out it does, but my family is frankly awful at communication). My GP was thankfully not fat-shaming but equally kind of useless (‘just eat less’). Zero obvious symptoms. I’ve always had a high BMI, but I’ve never weight cycled, deliberately never dieted, I do a good amount of exercise (I don’t drive so it’s busses and walking for me) and always had a fairly balanced diet, so I guess genetics will always out. 2023 was an extremely high stress year for me, with proposed compulsory redundancies at my workplace and the process took an absurd 9 months to complete, so I suspect that likely had an impact.
As I’m an academic, I immediately did a slew of (real, like scientific papers) research because that’s just how I approach things. The very next day I went moderate-to-low carb, and in the past 5 weeks I’ve been keeping my carb count to about 130ish (usually below). I’ve managed to lose about 7% of my body weight in that time, still going down. I’m approaching this as weight neutrally as possible, but it is still nice to see the numbers go down.
Because my GP/surgery is being slow at getting me into the education programme (I received a link to a website, but that’s it so far…), and I hate working blind, I went and got myself a glucose meter. I have an existing skin condition (urticarial vasculitis) which means a CGM may not be a good option, though I’m tempted to try to get the data. Though my fasting glucose is a tad higher than ‘normal’ (6.1 on average), my pre and post meal numbers are disconcertingly normal (5.4-6.7ish max post meal). These don’t really match up with my last a1c, and I can’t imagine such a massive drop so quickly. Like if this was 3-4 months in, fine - but something here reads oddly. I’m sure the lowish carb is part of it, and I intend to do some experimenting to see what happens if I add some higher carb foods in, but - anyone else experienced something like this? Was my Jan a1c way off?
Very recently diagnosed type 2 here (early Jan) - did the full gamut of blood tests due to thunderclap headaches before Christmas and an a1c was in there. Headaches were caused by a new pillow and a mucked up neck, turns out, but the a1c came back at 85 (!). Was a bit of a shock as at the time I didn’t think it ran in my family (turns out it does, but my family is frankly awful at communication). My GP was thankfully not fat-shaming but equally kind of useless (‘just eat less’). Zero obvious symptoms. I’ve always had a high BMI, but I’ve never weight cycled, deliberately never dieted, I do a good amount of exercise (I don’t drive so it’s busses and walking for me) and always had a fairly balanced diet, so I guess genetics will always out. 2023 was an extremely high stress year for me, with proposed compulsory redundancies at my workplace and the process took an absurd 9 months to complete, so I suspect that likely had an impact.
As I’m an academic, I immediately did a slew of (real, like scientific papers) research because that’s just how I approach things. The very next day I went moderate-to-low carb, and in the past 5 weeks I’ve been keeping my carb count to about 130ish (usually below). I’ve managed to lose about 7% of my body weight in that time, still going down. I’m approaching this as weight neutrally as possible, but it is still nice to see the numbers go down.
Because my GP/surgery is being slow at getting me into the education programme (I received a link to a website, but that’s it so far…), and I hate working blind, I went and got myself a glucose meter. I have an existing skin condition (urticarial vasculitis) which means a CGM may not be a good option, though I’m tempted to try to get the data. Though my fasting glucose is a tad higher than ‘normal’ (6.1 on average), my pre and post meal numbers are disconcertingly normal (5.4-6.7ish max post meal). These don’t really match up with my last a1c, and I can’t imagine such a massive drop so quickly. Like if this was 3-4 months in, fine - but something here reads oddly. I’m sure the lowish carb is part of it, and I intend to do some experimenting to see what happens if I add some higher carb foods in, but - anyone else experienced something like this? Was my Jan a1c way off?
