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DIABETICS!!: whats your HBA1c???
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Had my annual review today.. came out beaming!
My hba1c this time last year was over 13. It was 11.9 in August, 9.6 in November and 8.8 today!! I'm so pleased with myself! Even my doctor kept saying he was so proud of me! He was saying, "this is why I love diabetes! Because of success stories like yours! It shows it can be done!"
A year ago, I was absolutely miserable about having this annoying diabetes lark, thinking I would never be able to manage it, that it would just always bring me down. I couldn't talk to anyone about it, injecting insulin felt like torture so I avoided it at any cost until I began feeling sick, and I'd go weeks without once checking my sugars. It didn't help that I was doing a year abroad in Germany for college, so living alone away from family and friends, having to deal with foreign doctors and a very different approach to diabetes really didn't do me any favours.
So fast forward to 2K11 and things are so much better. My parents stopped nagging me and my boyfriend started coming to check ups with me. I had a few sessions with a psychologist in the clinic and my attitude really changed. I'm not perfect, by any means, but I'll check my levels several times a day now, inject 90% of the time and I don't bite people's heads off if they ask me about diabetes or how I'm doing. It's not even a chore.. it's just finally become part of the routine. Get out of bed, put on my slippers, check levels, put on dressing gown. No biggie. It's a huge weight off my mind because the guilt is finally going!
I know I still have some way to go, but I'm getting there. 8.8 might not seem great to some, but in comparison to 13 a year ago? I'll never have it perfect, but once I get it down to somewhere between 7 and 8, then you won't hear a peep of complaint from me!
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A blood glucose level of below 4 is considered a hypo and you certainly shouldn't be aiming to get a BG reading of as low as 3.5.
Not the same scale of numbers, but a HBA1c of 3.5 is also dangerously low as a target and the common target for diabetics to be told is 7. Although they do sometimes seem to change their mind as to if it's below 7 or not that I should be aiming for. That could also be due to being a long way off 7 at the moment they are not too bothered as long as I get it down.
AFAIK you should be aiming for below 7. While 3.5 is low it is not dangerous but aiming for it is as you will often undershoot it and suffer the consequences. Also remaining near that level for long periods can reduce hypo awareness which will lead to far worse problems as many learn the hard way.
Another reason it is dangerous to aim that low is that as discussed previously, the glucometers most of use have quite a wide birth in terms of accuracy (upto 1mmol/L in some cases)
The reason many diabetics are told "aim for 7" is the simple reasoning that most of us due to lifestyle or other factors will struggle to get it to that level on a consistent basis but it seems more achievable than setting a narrower target of between 4.5 and 6. Also it is safer, less risk of running a hypo and your hypo sensing should be quite good if they are maintained at that level, and at 7 and below, the complications brought along by hyperglycaemia are for all intents and purposes, null and void.
Personally I aim for 5 - 5.5 but I usually hover around the 6-9 mark
That said we'll see what it's like when I get my hba1c back in a few weeks, I've been off target for the past month, so I'm unsure where it will go. 0 -
Personally I aim for 5 - 5.5 but I usually hover around the 6-9 mark That said we'll see what it's like when I get my hba1c back in a few weeks, I've been off target for the past month, so I'm unsure where it will go.
I aim for 5ish too. If my blood sugar was 7.0 i'd take a very small amount of insulin to correct it(on a pump btw, so i can give 0.3 units!!). It could be seen as being a bit obsessive with it, but it's just what i've got into doing recently.
I'll get my HBA1c tomorrow. I'm actually going crazy thinking about it!0 -
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grindelwald wrote: »My lady was in the clinic yesterday and her HBA1C is now 9.2 down from last time, but only by 0.4%
At least it's heading in the right direction
Well done to both of you! 0 -
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Got my latest today and think I've broken a new personal record for rubbishness.
9.3% or 78mmol by their new way of counting.Just got some new results from a test from just before Christmas... 9.1%
Was thinking that was an awful result, but I guess it is a touch better than the last one. OK, I'm soon about to go onto a pump which in theory should help make things better eventually, but I'm really not sure what I've been doing so different from the previous umpteen years that my last couple of tests have been some relatively bad compared to before?!?
7/10 - 9.3% :mad: :mad:
1/11 - 9.1% :mad:
7/11 - 7.5%
I'm off to do a little dance around the office now.0 -
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Just back from crumlin, daughters HBA1C is now 9.9 %
moved further up the list to get a pump, as she was taking 6 injections a day, now they have decided to change her insulin altogether,
she is on going on to:
M3 humulin 30 units @9am
S Humulin 8 @6pm
I humulin @9pm
have to pick up the prescription later
so when she starts school no injections at all at school..... have to check her hba1c at the gps on the 30th of august to see if her hba1c is coming down.....0 -
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