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04-17-2008, 09:42 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 20
| |  Just got my lab results back...
My new A1C is 5.5, the doc should be happy. However, my cholesterol levels haven't budged, so I guessing I'll be put on a statin next time I see him.
I guess this goes to prove that the whole low/reduced carb diet thing really works....I still miss my morning bagel tho.
Jim
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Diagnosed 11/19/07
Metformin 500mg, b.i.d.
A1C Jan 2007: 5.9
Apr 2008: 5.5
Jul 2008: 5.5 |
04-17-2008, 09:45 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 5,789
| | | Jim,
Congratulations on a wonderful A1c result, that's really great news. Well done, the hard work does pay off. Some day I hope to get a number like yours! You'll get the cholesterol levels down.
__________________  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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04-17-2008, 09:46 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 10,001
| | Good job Jim! You've worked hard and should be proud! 
I feel your pain about the bagel as well...I keep waiting for them to make a low-carb one...how difficult could that be???!!!
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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 |
04-17-2008, 09:58 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sydney Australia
Posts: 1,271
| | Woo-Hoo that's a great A1C result. Well done 
My total cholesterol was 6.9 so the doc prescribed statins but I have to confess that I've not been taking them 
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Lee
Dx Dec 07 Control...nutrition & exercise
Latest A1c 6.1
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04-17-2008, 10:03 AM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 20
| | | low-carb bagels, low-carb semolina bread, low-carb waffles, low-carb Captain Crunch....
The list would never end.
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Diagnosed 11/19/07
Metformin 500mg, b.i.d.
A1C Jan 2007: 5.9
Apr 2008: 5.5
Jul 2008: 5.5 |
04-17-2008, 10:09 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Lowell, MA
Posts: 778
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodbutcher  I still miss my morning bagel tho.
Jim |
Good job Jim! You should celebrate!
I miss my morning bagel & creme cheese!
__________________  Diagnosed - 02/28/08
A1C - (8/10/2009= 5.7; 03/02/09 = 5.6 ; 12/29/08 = 5.8 ; 09/17/08 = 5.5 ; 05/27/08 = 5.7 ; 04/03/08 = 7.7 ; 02/29/08 = 10.1)
____________________________________ Diet and exercise only since 01/15/09 |
04-17-2008, 10:11 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 10,001
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Originally Posted by Woodbutcher low-carb bagels, low-carb semolina bread, low-carb waffles, low-carb Captain Crunch....
The list would never end. | Someone would make a fortune!!! low carb birthday cake!..yummmm!
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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 |
04-17-2008, 12:37 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 130
| | | Congrats!
If you are losing weight, it takes a couple months for the cholesterol to catch up with the improved diet and blood sugars.
Have patience. Most people do see lipids decline over time, but not in the first three months.
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A1c 5.7% 10 years after diagnosis.
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04-17-2008, 01:05 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 20
| | | then there's hope yet....I've lost about 10lbs since this began back in November, but I'm working on knocking off about 30lb more.
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Diagnosed 11/19/07
Metformin 500mg, b.i.d.
A1C Jan 2007: 5.9
Apr 2008: 5.5
Jul 2008: 5.5 |
04-17-2008, 02:58 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sunny / hot place
Posts: 443
| | Jim,
Congrats !!  
Low carb works !!
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Latest A1C
February 2009 ..5.4
Aug '08...5.2
Feb '08...5.5
Dec '07...5.2
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04-17-2008, 03:24 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Alabama
Posts: 1,077
| | | Good job! Glad to hear about your good numbers.
Let's see: low-carb brownies! Yeah, that's the ticket!
I'm going on a long weekend trip at the end of May. If my numbers are pretty good at that time, I'm taking a vacation from my eating plan, too. I won't pig out, but if it looks good, I'm gonna EAT it!
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Glycemic impact diet
exercise
Metformin 2000 mg
Byetta 10 mcg/2x daily
Enalapril 40 mg
A1C, 9-1-09: 5.3!! 
A1C, 5-19-09: 5.1!!! 
A1C, 2-12-09: 5.3!! 
A1C, 11-14-08: 5.2!!
A1C, 8-7-08: 6.3 
A1C, 5-1-08: 5.6!!
A1C, 2-5-08: 7.4  |
04-17-2008, 08:33 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Mind -Langhorne PA Heart - The Shenandoah Valley
Posts: 635
| | Good job Jim 
What ever you do stay away from the sugar free tasty cakes Oh and they are low carb but they taste more like brown card broad then anything.
I get to eat low carb passover food starting saturday
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Byetta 5mcg twice a day
Sugar busters life style
Exercise = cardio and running after twins Ben & Josh
"Oh for Pete's sake" -Ben "Let me think" - Josh
Ok Wildcards watch your six.
You too will be assimilated! You will become one with the Borg. You will all become one with the borg."
To lose this war means more than defeat. To surrender is to never go home. All of us must rise to the call above and beyond". Lt Col TC McQueen  |
04-17-2008, 09:09 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 721
| | That is wonderful! I sure hope I can get down lower in the 5's. I just barely entered them at 5.9. 
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Type 2 - Dx 9/11/03 - A1c 8.3
2/01/08 - A1c 6.3
4/01/08 - A1c 5.9
7/25/08 - A1c 5.9
10/07/08 - A1c 5.4
2/16/09 - A1c 6.4
6/16/09 - A1c 5.9
Benazepril - 10 mg. once daily
Crestor - 10 mg. once daily
Citalopram - 40 mg. once daily
Aspirin - 81 mg. once daily
Zyrtec - 10 mg. once daily
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