{"id":72938,"date":"2009-12-09T12:32:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T17:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/46513-after-7-weeks-low.html"},"modified":"2009-12-09T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T17:32:39","slug":"after-7-weeks-of-low-carb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/72938","title":{"rendered":"After 7 weeks of low carb"},"content":{"rendered":"
I ended up getting some blood work done sooner than I had expected because I had to change doctors (my old family doctor is moving to So. Cal) and my new doctor (a low-carb advocate) decided he wanted to see my current A1C and lipid panel to see how the low-carb diet is working for me. I was diagnosed on 10\/8\/09 with an A1C of 11.1. So basically, these results are after about 7-8 weeks of making the diet changes immediately after diagnosis.<\/p>\n

Here are my new numbers:<\/p>\n

A1C: 7.2 (I find this to be excellent after such a short period but once my September readings are removed in another month, I expect to be below 6%)<\/p>\n

NOTE: Just about a week earlier, I used the Bayer A1C home test and got a 7.1 so that gives me a lot of confidence that the home test is pretty darn accurate. I’ll be using it again to compare against my next set of blood work.<\/p>\n

Triglycerides: 191! I have always been in the 300-400 range and had developed fatty liver. I am thrilled with this reading. Got to get it below 150 but I am confident I will.<\/p>\n

HDL: 37 (Much improved though more work needed to get it over 40)<\/p>\n

LDL: 161 (Again, much improved though more work needed to get it under 100; may consider taking a statin but my doctor may recommend supplements first)<\/p>\n

C-Peptide: 4.1<\/p>\n

My understanding from reading that I have done is that normal c-peptide for a non-diabetic is usually between .5 ng\/ml – 3.0 ng\/ml. So, mine is slightly elevated (though some non-diabetics see slightly higher as well). <\/p>\n

So, am I correct to interpret my c-peptide to mean that I am making a bit more insulin than the non-diabetic and that could mean I still have some insulin resistance? I would imagine that had I had a c-peptide test done at diagnosis that it would have been quite a bit higher definitely confirming insulin resistance. Anyone understand this test sufficiently to evaluate my interpretation? It’s pretty clear that I am type 2 and I believe this confirms it but I wonder if a few months from now, with my continued improvement in BG control if my c-peptide could move back into the normal range.<\/p>\n

Appreciate your thoughts. I am a victim of bad genetics and have been fighting the risk factors all of my life and it feels good to see my lipids returning closer to normal levels after 48+ years of being abnormal.<\/p>\n

My new doctor feels that my numbers have improved significantly and that we thinks I can get all of them back to normal range with my current WOE and exercise. That sounds good to me. I would prefer not to have to take any medications if I can control this without. I have another appointment in a month and will have blood work done then as well. My hopes and expectations are that my A1C will be in the 5% range.<\/p>\n

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

I ended up getting some blood work done sooner than I had expected because I had to change doctors (my old family doctor is moving to So. Cal) and my new doctor (a low-carb advocate) decided he wanted to see my current A1C and lipid panel to see how the low-carb diet is working for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72938","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\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}