| Tons. Too many. If a FBG is not enough ... and OGTT is considered by the ADA to be "unreliable," will HbA1c be enough to catch many more?
Having had hypos when I went HypoT, what? 16 years ago (I now think I really could have been D, then, too -- I found a lovely graph describing beta cell mass fluctuation in LADAs) ... I really do not think those numbers are inflated, either.
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Linda Initial A1c Feb 6 09: 12% Aug 24 A1c (MD office) 5.5%
Jul ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30 metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU (blood values normal, advised to continue this dose by endo)
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.8 According to Joslin's Diabetes, 2005 ed., 5 - 30% of those diagnosed as Type 2 actually have LADA. |