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Jerry Wilson - 17 Mar 2004 03:56 GMT

I'm not too unhappy with my blood test results this time. I had lost
10 pounds, and my blood pressure was not bad.

Blood test:

HgA1c: 6.2
Fasting bg: 128
Total cholesterol: 148
HDL: 47
LDL: 74
Triglycerides: 128
Ratio: 3.15
C-reactive protein: 1.5
PSA: .35

I'm T2 diabetic and have been for 10 years. I'm restricting my carbs,
but not counting every gram like I used to.

Jerry

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marengo - 17 Mar 2004 08:37 GMT

| I'm not too unhappy with my blood test results this time. I had lost
| 10 pounds, and my blood pressure was not bad.
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| Jerry

Fantastic numbers Jerry, congratulations!

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Jenny - 17 Mar 2004 13:51 GMT

Jerry,

That Hba1c and Fasting bg are high enough that it looks like you are either
a) eating far more carbs than you realize, or b) getting to where you need
additional help in controlling your blood sugar eg: Metformin, Avandia, or
basal insulin.

I'd suggest counting carbs carefully for a few weeks and eliminating all
sugar alcohols from your diet. If you've been eating a lot of "low carb"
food, you may easily have been taking in over 100 gm/day. That level of carb
intake would push up your blood lipids, too.

If your fasting bg doesn't come down after a couple weeks of carefully
counted carbs, then you need to do something to spare what beta cells you
have left, which does mean meds.

In his latest book Bernstein comes out quite strongly for moving to Met,
Avandia/Actos or insulin if type 2s can't keep near 5.0% on the hba1c and
under 90 on their 2 hr post meal numbers with a stringent low carb diet. His
other suggestion is the combination of Alpha Lipoic Acid and Evening
Primrose Oil which seems to work for some people but not others.

-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
hba1c 5.2.
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes,
strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/

Looking for help controlling your blood sugar?
Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm

> I'm not too unhappy with my blood test results this time. I had lost
> 10 pounds, and my blood pressure was not bad.
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> Jerry

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Jerry Wilson - 18 Mar 2004 02:59 GMT

> Jerry,
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> -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
> hba1c 5.2.

Jenny,

I've been on metformin for years. The A1c reading is the lowest I've
had in about 3 years or more. And my fasting glucose of 128 is fairly
typical. It usually goes down in the afternoon.

Thanks for your reply.

Jerry

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Ignoramus5568 - 18 Mar 2004 04:00 GMT

> In his latest book Bernstein comes out quite strongly for moving to Met,
> Avandia/Actos or insulin if type 2s can't keep near 5.0% on the hba1c and
> under 90 on their 2 hr post meal numbers with a stringent low carb diet. His
> other suggestion is the combination of Alpha Lipoic Acid and Evening
> Primrose Oil which seems to work for some people but not others.

My fasting BG is 90, is that a cause for concern?

i

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Jenny - 18 Mar 2004 23:08 GMT

A fasting bg of 90 on a lab fasting plasma glucose test is fine. You only
should start obsessing when it starts hovering around 100 and stays there
for a while. I'm obsessing about mine because it is consistently over 100
even when low carbing, but there's still a question of whether it's really
my blood sugar, or just my blood sugar meter reading high. I need to
calibrate it against a lab test soon.

Bu the nature of fasting blood sugars, according to some recent research, is
that they tend to be stable for a very long time, and then within two or
three years they can suddenly take a huge, non-gradual leap.

And you can be running diabetic post-meal values but still maintaining
normal fasting blood sugars for years too, especially if you are older or a
woman. But when the fasting blood sugar goes, you've just crossed a
threshold where your poor old beat up beta cells can no longer cope even
after hours to recuperate. That sets the stage for a whole lot more
deterioration if you don't get on it pretty fast.

-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
hba1c 5.2.
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes,
strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/

Looking for help controlling your blood sugar?
Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm

> > In his latest book Bernstein comes out quite strongly for moving to Met,
> > Avandia/Actos or insulin if type 2s can't keep near 5.0% on the hba1c and
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Ignoramus21235 - 19 Mar 2004 04:46 GMT

Thank you.

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> A fasting bg of 90 on a lab fasting plasma glucose test is fine. You only
> should start obsessing when it starts hovering around 100 and stays there
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