Tag: diabetes

Had my annual check up at the doctor today. A bit of poking and prodding and another clean bill of health (aside from the diabetes thing).

HbA1c was down to 5.6% today which is down in the normal range. Management success!
Should get results from the bloodwork in a few days. Will be interesting to see how that comes out.

Update:
Total cholesterol – 171. Lower than last year when it was 193.

HDL – 51. Still lower than what the little yellow card says it should be (>60), but higher than last year’s 42.

LDL – 108. Up a little bit from 100 last year. Need to work on bringing it down.

Rest of the blood work came out normal.

Getting pretty close to a year since my diagnosis and things are going pretty well so far. Fasting blood glucose levels in the morning are usually below 120 and typically in the 100-115 range. Except for a few occasions, I’m managing to keep it below 140 throughout the day. Managing to maintain a mostly low-carb diet, although it’s not always easy with the cafeteria offerings. I probably need to start packing my own lunches or something.

My running has picked up quite a bit this year, although I’ve been lazy about getting back to strength training at the gym lately. This probably represents the longest period of running I’ve been able to stick with since my University days.

Weight has been pretty steady for the past year, going down maybe a couple kilograms or so. I think there’s been a lot of weight redistribution going on. Feeling pretty good about it. Would like to shed a couple more kilograms over the summer.

Things seem to be going pretty well so far. Fasting blood glucose levels are still in the 100-110 mg/dl range with some periods in the 110-120 mg/dl range. There almost seems to be a pattern in my FBG. The graph is kind of begging me to do a Fourier analysis on it.

My bathroom scale tells me I’m down to 168 pounds now, although the scale at the gym says 174. Either way it’s still lower than before. Gym going has been hampered a bit by my work and school workload, but after classes end this week I should be able to get back to a regular gym routine.

Recent visit to the eye doctor showed no problems so far. Eye doctor wants me to get checked annually now instead of every other year.

I decided to purchase a second glucose meter (True Track from Publix) to use as backup, and to let me test my blood glucose response to different foods. The strips are significantly less expensive than the ones for my Aviva so more frequent testing won’t be a huge hit to the wallet.

The stats course I’m taking and some discussions on a diabetes forum I’ve been hanging out in made me want to look at differences and variations in blood glucose readings. I’ve got comparison data for the two meters, which I need to finish looking at. Need to do a literature search to find out how these things work and what kind of published info is available.