It's been a while since I posted. I planned to post today when I got my HbA1c result Monday. Indeed I'm partly doing it to avoid doing something else not health related. I come up against mental barriers sometimes when trying to accomplish certain tasks and I procrastinate and distract myself to get rid of the anxiety. Doing this blog today is another distraction. I can even struggle to stay focused and driven at the best of times and that happens with the task of keeping up with this blog too, hence why it it took so long between posts this time. Anyway, I'll do a mental health post another day.
I went to the diabetic nurse Thursday of last week. It was hard to believe it had been October when I saw her last because of the corona virus. I didn't even get to talk to her over the phone for my last appointment in April because she was up in the wards instead of in the outpatients. I talked to her colleague that day. All went well with my appointment on Thursday and I got blood taken for my HbA1c afterwards.
I'm striving for continuous improvement and my results have shown that with one caveat, one of them isn't included in the tweet above because it wasn't in the list of results taken with a normal blood test. It was taken with a finger prick and a detector that isn't as accurate as the normal blood test. I have a sticker in a 2019 diary with that one. The label on the sticker reads DCA Vantage. That test gave up a HbA1c reading of 51 mmol/mol. The other two results after it have been in the sixties. To be honest, I wasn't expecting my latest one to be lower than October. I told the nurse I was expecting it to go up a bit but she reckoned at the end of the appointment that it would be down and she was right. My averages over the winter were very high as the honeymoon period was long gone. But I made adjustments to how I dose with insulin in the spring and even recently changed my meals around a bit and it worked out well.
I wonder will I ever be in the fifties again? That's a long term diabetes goal to strive for.
