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My A1C was down (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 2023 OP
Good job! Walleye Jul 2023 #1
Well done! Happy Hoosier Jul 2023 #2
That is Awesome!!! woodsprite Jul 2023 #3
What was your Dr.s opinion about the change? Prairie_Seagull Jul 2023 #4
Wow! What was the time period that WhiteTara Jul 2023 #5
3 months Omaha Steve Jul 2023 #6
what is your protocol? WhiteTara Jul 2023 #7
? Omaha Steve Jul 2023 #11
what did you do besides WhiteTara Jul 2023 #12
Metformin, Glimepiride, Jardiance Omaha Steve Jul 2023 #13
Jardiance is an SGLT2 inhibitor. TexLaProgressive Jul 2023 #14
Thanks for the heads up Omaha Steve Jul 2023 #15
Glad to be of assistance TexLaProgressive Jul 2023 #16
Yeah LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2023 #8
Congratulations!! ebbie15644 Jul 2023 #9
That is fantastic. MOMFUDSKI Jul 2023 #10
Good for you! ExWhoDoesntCare Aug 2023 #17
Reached "normal" range for my AIC on today's blood chemistry Model35mech Aug 2023 #18

Prairie_Seagull

(3,805 posts)
4. What was your Dr.s opinion about the change?
Tue Jul 25, 2023, 09:59 AM
Jul 2023

If it was something like, Outstanding! I could not agree more. I have fought the same fight with nearly exact numbers and my doc was very impressed. Did mine with mostly diet and exercise some metformin and there were bump in the road, many bumps but got it done. Regardless, Well done Steve.

WhiteTara

(30,191 posts)
5. Wow! What was the time period that
Tue Jul 25, 2023, 10:06 AM
Jul 2023

you reduced your A1c? My SO is struggling so bad. He was recently prescribed Ozempic. They'll check his labs again in a month.

Omaha Steve

(103,637 posts)
13. Metformin, Glimepiride, Jardiance
Tue Jul 25, 2023, 06:48 PM
Jul 2023

I started to get hives when I started on Jardiance. I stopped taking it and the hives are going away. They are considering what drug to replace the Jardiance. I do yard work is about my only real exercise.

A diabetic diet helps too. I try not to cheat. It has taken some getting used to.

TexLaProgressive

(12,312 posts)
14. Jardiance is an SGLT2 inhibitor.
Sun Jul 30, 2023, 10:20 AM
Jul 2023

You might try the other one, Farxiga. These drugs have the other effects of protecting kidney function and the heart, so much so that SGLT2 inhibitors are being prescribed to non-diabetics and type one if at risk of CKD and heart issues.

TexLaProgressive

(12,312 posts)
16. Glad to be of assistance
Sun Jul 30, 2023, 01:59 PM
Jul 2023

I mean, the experience of 33 years living with type 2 diabetes ought to be shared.

 

ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts)
17. Good for you!
Sun Aug 13, 2023, 12:58 AM
Aug 2023

You must have worked hard for it, but it does help to live in a time when doctors can do so much to help you get there.

My nan would have loved to have had access to all of of the modern medications and sheer knowledge when she was suffering from diabetes.

 

Model35mech

(2,047 posts)
18. Reached "normal" range for my AIC on today's blood chemistry
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 03:49 PM
Aug 2023

A 5.4 !! Been trying to get "normal" since 2010 without insulin. Yes, that has felt like forever and often out of reach. Row cropping and truck gardening has me more active in the summer so I've always done better in the summer. But nothing like this result.

I did about 11 years of ever-increasing doses of metformin, then added glipizide with increasing doses of that. A couple of years ago I got an empagliflozin (jardiance) Rx and added that to my morning doses.

As the ads said, I lost a bit of weight. I also established a routine with pretty frequent trips to the backside of bushes and tall weeds in the fence rows. An effect that really wasn't covered in the ads.

This summer I was determined to back my weight down which has happened modestly. Chemistry and discipline. Who'd have thought that could work (other than maybe the doc and his nurses)?









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