{"id":226059,"date":"2010-01-25T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/48005-new-labs-both-yay.html"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:22:01","slug":"new-labs-both-yay-and-bummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/226059","title":{"rendered":"New labs- both YAY!! and bummer :("},"content":{"rendered":"
Got my 1\/20\/10 (6 months) labs back.. He hasn’t transmitted all to my computer yet — but reported several over the phone via his voicemail to me.<\/p>\n

First the YAY!!! And my meter sorta told me that I could more than simply ‘hope’ for this — but that it was comin’…<\/p>\n

New HbA1c = 5.7 !!!!!<\/font><\/b><\/font> :elefant:<\/p>\n

So into the higher side of mid 5’s.. I’ll take it! and be thankful!! I expected a little lower but as several of you have suggested there are other things that go into the making of an A1c.. like I could still have some higher numbers when I’m sleeping — I was still using bolus to correct some highs when I carbed it up a bit… We’ll see. But my doc refers to that number as excellent and ‘normal’ non-diabetic range. So he’s thrilled as am I.<\/p>\n

I had him do Magnesium, Potassium, D3 and B12 — Magnesium and Potassium were middle of normal.. But D3 and B12 were both on the VERY low side of normal — B12 was 33 (ref range 30-100) and I forget D3.. So he suggested supplements for both of those. I’d already started D3 – 2000iu day. He seemed to stumble when he told me B12 — he said both 1000 micrograms and 2500 micrograms in the same sentence.. So ‘what are you all taking’? –those of you who take B12 supps?<\/p>\n

Then the BUMMER news — is that unlike a lot of you — the 6 month mark after dropping carb intake did NOT bring my LDL’s into line — they went up from 118 –133<\/font><\/b> :(. Total cholesterol from 185-198 — HDL came up a point from 48-49.. My doc still thinks I started the Pravastatin in October. I didn’t fess up.. So he wants me to up my 20mg to 40mg.. Obviously I’d start the ’20’s which I’ve never taken. Makes me wonder if it’s all the eggs and peanuts I eat. My wife and I are going to go get Farm Fresh eggs at a local farm near us from here on out – as Grocery store eggs are known to have more bad cholesterol after sitting on the shelf. And I switched to almonds and walnuts and sunflower seeds as my nut mix I make for myself. But I can’t ‘duck him’ any more.. I think I need to try a statin and HOPE for the best in terms of no side effects. You guys may want to talk me out of it — so ‘go for it’.. \ud83d\ude42 I really DON’T want to… But he’s convinced that Diabetics are at a hugely higher risk for complications of LDL levels above 100 – even though normal for a nondiabetic is 130 LDL. It just seems weird that if my HbA1c is in the ‘non-diabetic’ range — then why would I use the ‘diabetic’ range for LDL.. That’s weird to me.<\/p>\n

SO again THANKS to all of you for your encouragement and GREAT advice and for ‘bearing’ with my ‘forward’ style of communication. I’m getting healthier and almost ALL of what I’ve learned about how to do that has come from the DF family! Hoping this new <50g carbs\/day ‘diet’ (I’m calling it — rather than a "new approach" for BG control) will bring my weight goals to where they need to be too.<\/p>\n

Blessings all!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got my 1\/20\/10 (6 months) labs back.. He hasn’t transmitted all to my computer yet — but reported several over the phone via his voicemail to me. First the YAY!!! And my meter sorta told me that I could more than simply ‘hope’ for this — but that it was comin’… New HbA1c = 5.7 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}