Diabetes update

[lnr]

Having been on the Wegovy since November I asked my GP to do another HbA1c test, to see how my diabetes is responding to the additional drug and weight loss associated with it. HbA1c is down from 43 in November to 36 on Friday. That's the first time below the pre-diabetic range (42-48) since well before I was diagnosed in November 2020. Now waiting to see what GP wants to do with this information. (Suspect I no longer need to be on a high dose of Metformin though, which is why I wanted them to check).

My iron levels are also still low-end of normal, but it looks like I can now safely give blood again too, so I've booked that in for the Friday after next. We'll have to see how long it takes them to recover from that!

ETA: It's now the 26th and I still haven't actually heard from GP what they think about the results. I asked for an update from the admin team and just got a "result is normal" text, which wasn't very helpful, so have sent the medical team a request to review. Will see what they say!

Comments

[shermarama]

Oooh, that is a good number! Glad it's doing useful things. Are you feeling like you have more energy from it?

[lnr]

You'd think if I've got sugar reaching my muscles/organs/etc rather than just sloshing around uselessly in my blood that I would indeed be feeling more energetic, but I suspect this is balanced out by effects of being in a calorie deficit. On balance I'm not feeling like I have any *less* energy than usual though, so that's good.

We're off to the Peak District for a week over the Easter hols, so I'm looking forward to seeing if it's easier going uphill :)