My success story with the usual sting in the tail !

I had my latest appt at the diabetes clinic 20th Oct 2014. I had HbA1C and requested results. This is the reply from Addenbrookes:

Hi Maurice

Just checked it's the same as Febuary 41 (5.9%) which is great but are
you having a lot of hypos?




Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Tel: 01223 348780 I

Fax: 01223 586763 I www.cuh.org.uk



Wolfson Diabetes & Endocrine Clinic I Box 281 I Cambridge University
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust I Cambridge Biomedical Campus I
Addenbrooke's Treatment Centre I Hills Road I Cambridge I CB2 0QQ

How do we keep these guys happy lol ! I rely on these for my driving license and my job.

Well from me a non diabetic ..... I say "Brilliant results Mo"

Well Done  

All the best Jan

Well done mate  that's awesome  

Mo wrote:How do we keep these guys happy lol ! I rely on these for my driving license and my job.

Tough call Mo it's just you against the system which equates a low A1c to hypos regardless of your own evidence.

Great results by the way

Thanks chaps. I'm very happy with my control and I don't hypo. Low carb along with exercise is the easy answer for me !

mo1905 wrote:Thanks chaps. I'm very happy with my control and I don't hypo. Low carb along with exercise is the easy answer for me !

Same here Mo and doesn't it suck BIG time that we're punished and disbelieved for doing the right thing!

Latest HbA1C today and chuffed with a 42. Usual comment though, "are you having lots of hypo's?" ! I just smile and say no. BP a bit high which wasn't great but I think that's a bit of a family trait. So, I'm fairly happy.
What was a bit annoying though was taking my van and ladders for the first time to Addenbrookes multi-storey car park. I stopped just by the barrier and checked to see I would fit in. Looked OK. Went through barriers then heard a nasty scraping sound as my ladders snagged the ducting ! Grr ! Not a great start.

Congrats on the A1c Mo! Bummer about your van though! Did something like that myself a few years ago with my bosses Land Rover entering a country park that had the anti caravan barriers up-ended up damaging the barrier and tearing the warning beacon off the Landie's roof!! Didn't half cack myself on the way back to the depot!

mo1905 wrote:Latest HbA1C today and chuffed with a 42. Usual comment though, "are you having lots of hypo's?" ! I just smile and say no. BP a bit high which wasn't great but I think that's a bit of a family trait. So, I'm fairly happy.
What was a bit annoying though was taking my van and ladders for the first time to Addenbrookes multi-storey car park. I stopped just by the barrier and checked to see I would fit in. Looked OK. Went through barriers then heard a nasty scraping sound as my ladders snagged the ducting ! Grr ! Not a great start.

Well done again Mo  pity some HCPs always correlate a low A1c in type ones with hypos though.

Good to read your results Mo

... from me a non diabetic ..... I say Well Done  

All the best Jan

graham64 wrote:

mo1905 wrote:Latest HbA1C today and chuffed with a 42. Usual comment though, "are you having lots of hypo's?" ! I just smile and say no. BP a bit high which wasn't great but I think that's a bit of a family trait. So, I'm fairly happy.
What was a bit annoying though was taking my van and ladders for the first time to Addenbrookes multi-storey car park. I stopped just by the barrier and checked to see I would fit in. Looked OK. Went through barriers then heard a nasty scraping sound as my ladders snagged the ducting ! Grr ! Not a great start.

Well done again Mo  pity some HCPs always correlate a low A1c in type ones with hypos though.

You could try explaining that you don't get hypos because you don't eat a high carb low fat diet.

You may need skills in CPR soon after . . .