Diabetes

[daugen]

my AIC stayed at 6.1 last month
holidays bad news for sugar, I tell friends no cookies but they still show up

 

[ArlyA]

my AIC stayed at 6.1 last month
holidays bad news for sugar, I tell friends no cookies but they still show up

Can you get out for a walk then?

 

[mjonesnh]

Had A1C test early Oct., 6.0. Has been 5.9-6.2 for almost 4 years. I am so thankful I could stop the daily insulin and metformin just by diet and exercise. Sticking to low carb and low sugar foods and walking 23-25 miles/wk keeps me off the meds.

 

[LHF2019]

My sons a1c went to 8.9 this last visit. Looking through the online notes dr just keeps saying the same thing over and over. Dose for every meal. Same basic things my son has quit doing for the most part. According to his tandem he averaging maybe 1 meal a day. And turned off his ciq so he was just getting back ground insulin and not having the pump automatically controlling insulin.

 

[daugen]

that doesn't sound healthy LHF, hope your son figures out what works for him.
ultimately we are have to take responsibility for our own health but hard to watch someone you love
not take care of themselves

Arly, I've been told I have osteophytes or spurs in my left hip. Only way to fix it is a new hip socket.
I can't walk more than 2000 steps without hurting. At 4000 have to sit down. It is what it is until I'm willing
to get new parts. But no, it's been hard for me to walk in last three months.
Back surgeon said my back so bad, so much damage, he wouldn't operate. So I'm thinking do I want a new hip when the
neighborhood is already a wreck...
Thankfully last week's lower back epidural helped.
I'm just an old race horse getting drugged up enough to get out into the field...