The good:
The Dr. was thrilled with my progress and take charge attitude. She thought I had lost enough weight (touching the normal/overweight line on BMI), I think I should keep doing what I’m doing and not worry about more weight loss for a while yet.
The labs were within normal ranges right down the line (LDL slightly up for normal but good for someone with D).
A1c: 5.7
Fasting: 89
HDL: 50
LDL 119 (VLDL: 11)
Trig: 53
After looking at me and talking over what I had been doing, she said I should be teaching a class. 🙂 She really wanted to know some details since few of her patients have had this kinds of success.
She was quite surprised when I said I was not trying to loose weight. I had just started eating right and the weight was coming off. With that, she did not finish the warnings about many people who loose weight and put it back on again.
The Bad
All three of my meters registered lower than the lab taken just before my blood was drawn.
Contour: 82
Wavesense: 85
TrueBalance: 88
OK, this is actually not too bad, all three were close to each other and within 10% of lab.
I’m a little disappointed with my a1c, not that it is bad, just that it is higher than expected from what I have seen with my meter and higher than the Bayer a1c I took that morning to see how close they were (Bayer was 5.3). Still, I’ll take it.
Looks like I could bring up my HDL and lower my LDL more.
OK. looks like I’m having to reach to find something bad, should have tried a different subject line. 😀
No Ugly
I had no idea how the Dr. would react to my going off meds without talking to her first. The long and short of it was after hearing I’d been off for 3 months with an a1c of 5.7 was she said you proved you could do it.
I also found out that she is as annoyed as I am about the high carb diets pushed by the D educators and ADA. She also seems to be up to date on news in this field.
It was a very good appointment.