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10-08-2009, 10:35 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
Posts: 1,764
| | | Lowest A1c Yet!
Just got blood work and everything looked good including an A1c of 6.7!
Yes! Working out 5 days a week and testing like a fiend pays off. Where are the bagels? Just kidding...
Mike
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Type 1 since '88
Pumping since 2002 |
10-08-2009, 10:40 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 10,080
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T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Metformin 500 mg twice daily
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets
Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (after dealing with shingles & bronchiti)
2/09: 5.5 |
10-08-2009, 10:43 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Florida
Posts: 569
| | | Way to go Mike!
I have had 2 bagels in the past year. They were a passion. Seriously. I really don't miss them now.
You are approaching the finish line, well not the finish line, the road you want to be on! Hot stuff!
__________________ Marcia Type 2 Diagnosed 11/08-my history in brief (HA1c 04/04
5.3; 11/06 6.0; 07/08 6.2)
HA1c 03/09 5.6
Cholesterol 226 LDL 159 HDL 47
Triglycerides 98 |
10-08-2009, 11:38 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Missouri Ozarks
Posts: 1,886
| | Way to go, Mike!
and now that you mention it, there are days I'd about kill for an 8-grain bagel . . . 
__________________  "Reputation is what others know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself." Lois McMaster Bujold "Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go;
it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." Alice Mackenzie Swaim
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10-08-2009, 12:34 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
Posts: 1,764
| | | Yeah, I do miss the bagels but I especially miss the whole bagel, lox and cream cheese thing. I do find I can scoop a bagel and get away with half and not suffer over it but carbs were such a large part of growing up! I miss a lot of those childhood comfort foods - bagels, corn, rice, mashed potatoes, cap'n crunch. Well, enough of the good old days. On to the future and a 6.5!
Mike
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Type 1 since '88
Pumping since 2002 |
10-08-2009, 01:32 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 5,908
| | Congrats Mike, hope you are very proud of yourself!
I reckon you deserve a bagel as an A1c treat
Keep on fighting the good fight!
__________________  Cosmo the Duck: is with Gretchen in Cambridge, MA. Ping the Duck: is with Nancy
Metformin 500mg twice daily, Enap 5mg
Diagnosed T2 on 26th Nov'07, with BG of 21mmol/L (378mg/dL) and A1c of 11.6%.
Most recent A1c 10/09/09: 6.1%
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10-08-2009, 06:57 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
Posts: 1,764
| | | Thanks Dave. Did I read that you might be going on insulin or was that some dream thread? Good luck with that. If you need it, nothing will make you feel better faster. At least that was my experience.
Mike
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Type 1 since '88
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10-08-2009, 07:49 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 8,563
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__________________  ~Cin~ Mom always says I'm special. Hmmm........wonder what she means by that?? LOL.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched,they must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller~
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10-08-2009, 11:12 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 33
| | | Nice Job Mike. Stick with it. It feels good to see things improve. Let us know again in 3 month. Nice, Larry
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A1c
10.7 - BG 246 - 08/07/2009
7.4 - BG 94 - 10/07/2009
6.2 - BG 96 - 11/11/2009
No Meds, just diet  |
10-09-2009, 05:55 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Michigan
Posts: 535
| | | AWESOME!!!! Keep up the good work.
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Current Meds
Lantus 26 units Split dose
Novolog as needed
Metformin 1500mg
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10-09-2009, 06:35 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 4,473
| | | Mike, I assume you might be a bit like me with lots of 7 upwardish kind of A1cs in your past. I know exactly how great it feels to make inroads into the 6s! Congrats. Onward and upwards... or should I say downwards...
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−− Type 1 since 1991
≈≈ Minimed Paradigm 722 since 2007
~~ Metformin ER since Sep 2009 |
10-09-2009, 07:39 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
Posts: 1,764
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Originally Posted by Subby  Mike, I assume you might be a bit like me with lots of 7 upwardish kind of A1cs in your past. I know exactly how great it feels to make inroads into the 6s! Congrats. Onward and upwards... or should I say downwards... | Subby, exactly right. Lots of 7's. I had a 6.9 once then right back up to 7.1. Downwards indeed!
Mike
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10-12-2009, 03:51 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 239
| | | Congrats Mike and I can really relate to what you said about the bagel and comfort foods. I was in a conversation the other day about the need for comfort foods and I mentioned mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, and chicken noodle soup as the first three things that popped in my head and then I said, wait those really are uncomforting foods anymore (from a BG perspective.). Keep up the good work!
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Lark
Type 1 Diabetic for 18 years
Minimed Paradigm 722 with CGMS
Meds: Humalog, Benicar, Running
A1Cs: Most recent 8/15/09: 6.6
Over the last several years (roughly): 6.6, 6.3, 6.0, 5.9, 6.6, 7.0, 7.2
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