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06-10-2004, 08:18 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 2,869
| | | Lowest number ever: 5.9.
Usually I'm in the low to mid 6's.
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T1 since 1991, Cozmo Pump 11/05
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06-10-2004, 09:39 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: OK, USA
Posts: 197
| | | Well, just one reading since I was fully into the routine, and it was 5.4 (about a month ago). I think I'm still in that ballpark, but I have a sneaking suspicion that my meter reads 10% or so high, so it's hard for me to be totally sure (that's the only way a 5.4 makes sense considering the daily readings I was getting before that. I fully expected a 6.4) |
06-10-2004, 09:51 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: British Columbia, Canada
Posts: 495
| | | My last A1C was 5.3, which sounds pretty good except that it was up from 4.8 three months earlier. I knew the reason (I'd been pigging out on peanut butter), and I have a bet on with my doctor that I'll have it back down to five or less next time. So the peanut butter, alas, has been banned. I'm going for another test tomorrow, so we shall see whether my sacrifice has paid off or not.
Karen |
06-11-2004, 08:32 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Strathclyde University
Posts: 789
| | | My last one was 7.4, due the results of another one on Tuesday. My lowest ever was 5, but I was having lows all the time at that point. The doctor told me that research showed that at 6% people tend to be having about 3 bad hypos a year. Is this anyones experience? |
06-11-2004, 09:30 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 2,869
| | | Depends on what is considered bad. Like, really shakey and clammy? Or passing out and/or seizures? I've never passed out but I've been incoherent and had seizures. I had about 7 of those episodes in one year, for the first time, after having been diabetic for 11 years. Thankfully now I'm off the N and not having it happen anymore. I've always figured I'd eventually have an episode like that, just not so many in such a short period of time.
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T1 since 1991, Cozmo Pump 11/05
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06-11-2004, 09:59 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Garland Tx
Posts: 630
| | | Mine is 9.4... working on getting it down |
06-11-2004, 10:20 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: USA
Posts: 949
| | | 5.2 last time...lowest ever. Usually 5.7-6.0. |
06-12-2004, 05:56 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 7,297
| | Gee Stat!!! How do you do it? No matter how hard I try, I can't get mine down that low. I'm due for one in July but I know it's not gonna be too great.  
Cin 
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06-12-2004, 06:27 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 7,412
| | | 6.5 was my last A1c. I am not sure I can get it much lower without having to many lows. I don't know how you guys do it.
Nancy |
06-12-2004, 09:56 PM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Buffalo, NY
Posts: 393
| | | My last a1c, 3 weeks ago, was 6.6. In the past 6 or 8 years, I have been as low as 6.2, and as high as 7.4, so mid-6's is just about where I should be, where I feel safe and comfotable, and where my doctor wants me to be--keeps everyone happy, and seems to have kept the boogeyman away.
Michael
T1 since 1965 |
06-13-2004, 11:26 AM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: NE Ohio
Posts: 252
| | | Hello all
I normally have my A1C at 5.9, where it has been for the past near three years.
But since I had to raise my levels to regain sensation of my lows, my last A1C was at 6.1. This is a little high for me, but I am comfortable with this.
Also my sensation of lows has come back and boy that feeling is somewhat uncomfortable after not sensing it for so long.
But I feel better with the normalcy returned.
Don |
06-13-2004, 12:26 PM
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I am a: Parent | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: FL
Posts: 1,918
| | | Eri's lowest A1C was 8.1...they want her between 7.0 and 8.
We go in July again and will have it tested then.
Eri's had quite a few hypo's in the past...a LOT of seizures...that was 3 months after being dx'd and up til last year(she was dx'd in 1/00). |
06-13-2004, 05:57 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 443
| | | I just got mine done yesterday for the first time after being dxd in January... 6.1 down from 13.5!
Great to hear everyone else is doing so good!
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A silver lining sometimes isn't enough
To make some wrongs seem right
Whatever life brings
I've been through everything
And now I'm on my knees again
But I know I must go on
Although I hurt I must be strong
Because inside I know that many feel this way
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06-13-2004, 06:42 PM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Franklin, PA
Posts: 520
| | | Nice Job pepsilvr, keep up the good work.
Kim |
06-14-2004, 01:13 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Strathclyde University
Posts: 789
| | | Well done pepsilvr |
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