What is your A1c goal, and how do you plan on achieving or maintaining it? If you want to see ALL of my tips, check out my comprehensive guide where I show 19 Ways to Lower Your A1c: th-cam.com/video/k-AfKq-CPc8/w-d-xo.html.
With a lot of help from your channel on use of CGM and INPEN I had a A1C of 5.8% this week. This is my first that low since I developed Type 2 in 1998. The onboard calculator and dose calculator in the INPEN have really helped me a lot. I followed your suggestion to eat light for evening meal and get my BG near 90-100 for my sleep time to helped get my A1C down. With the dose calculator I have few low BG and address high BG quicker. Thanks for the great info you continue to put out on your channel.
Thank you so much, Just got a G7. A1C 7.8 to a 6.9 in first 3 months. Your videos Are so supportive and informative . Appreciate you and your valuable content.
Wow - congratulations for your successful T1D results. Your notes really alerts me to what I failure I’ve been in trying to manage my diabetes over 40 years. You express how we individually must customize our goals. My A1c has been running over 7- ranging 7.1 to 7.3 over past year. I am on a pump with CGM and I attempt to adjust diet and snacking to anticipate swings in blood glucose. I’m physically very active with daily exercise and sports. Candidly my best in range results if I limit physical activity to just walking -3 to 4 miles a day -avoid competitive play and interval training. Limit late eve snacks due to hunger. I guess I’ve become discouraged when I learn how well others are managing their blood sugar compared to my poor results.
It might make more sense for you to focus on Time-In-Range than the A1c number. I do think we’re all very different and that’s why comparing our numbers to others can be less helpful sometimes. One thing to consider could be the iLet insulin pump. It aims for an A1c of 7% but with limited work (no carb counting). So if you and your medical team are happy with 7% (which many are) it could be a way of achieving that without having to live and breath diabetes
I have been a T1 for 40 years and have had a A1C in the non diabetic range for the last 39 years. My personal belief is that the key to A1C success is to try and keep your minute by minute bs as close to normal as possible. And when you have a high blood sugar for whatever the reason that you due something about it as quickly as you can. The key to A1C success is to never have a high blood sugar during the 90 day cycle between your A1C blood tests because I certainly do, but when I have high blood sugars they are not high for a extended period of time before I take additional insulin to bring them back to normal. Remember that the A1C is a 90 day average of your blood sugar and a few 2-3 hour long high blood sugars once or twice a week will not be your downfall of your A1C’s. And my personal opinion which works for me is that if you never experience a low blood sugar then you probably don’t have a non diabetic A1C like myself!
I’ve found out that stop eating around 7/7:30pm just before bed I drink a pint of filtered water from the cooler, this helps my readings in the morning and yes you may or may not get up at night for a P!!!!
I had one of the most respected Endo's in the 1970's he said A1c under 8 was my goal... fast forward today now they say A1c 7 or 154. Carb counting, Insulin pump CGM are key goals.
Mine has been at 5.8 for a year. I could not get a fasting blood glucose under 100. But, I've been eating very low carb for the last 3 weeks and for the last few days I've been getting fasting blood glucose readings in the low 90s.
My Libre gives me averages so I can pretty much tell the doctor what my A1c is going to be before he checks it. My sugar levels seems to like about 150 under steady state conditions, so I microdose maybe 2 or 3 units and it drops it down to about 100 if I don't eat anything after for a few hours . Sometimes a walk helps and sometimes not, the microdose always seems to work.
What is your A1c goal, and how do you plan on achieving or maintaining it?
If you want to see ALL of my tips, check out my comprehensive guide where I show 19 Ways to Lower Your A1c: th-cam.com/video/k-AfKq-CPc8/w-d-xo.html.
With a lot of help from your channel on use of CGM and INPEN I had a A1C of 5.8% this week. This is my first that low since I developed Type 2 in 1998. The onboard calculator and dose calculator in the INPEN have really helped me a lot. I followed your suggestion to eat light for evening meal and get my BG near 90-100 for my sleep time to helped get my A1C down. With the dose calculator I have few low BG and address high BG quicker. Thanks for the great info you continue to put out on your channel.
YAY!!! 5.8% that is great. Congrats, it's nice when all your hard work pays off. And I'm happy to have been part of the journey.
Great video thanks I always said I think I need to be an engineer for my diabetes and you made it simple thanks
I’m type 2 for the last 5 years. Average 6.1 A1c over that time. I’d like it to be under 5.7.just subscribed.
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Thank you so much, Just got a G7. A1C 7.8 to a 6.9 in first 3 months. Your videos Are so supportive and informative . Appreciate you and your valuable content.
Nice work! And thank you for the kind feedback
Wow - congratulations for your successful T1D results. Your notes really alerts me to what I failure I’ve been in trying to manage my diabetes over 40 years. You express how we individually must customize our goals. My A1c has been running over 7- ranging 7.1 to 7.3 over past year. I am on a pump with CGM and I attempt to adjust diet and snacking to anticipate swings in blood glucose. I’m physically very active with daily exercise and sports. Candidly my best in range results if I limit physical activity to just walking -3 to 4 miles a day -avoid competitive play and interval training. Limit late eve snacks due to hunger. I guess I’ve become discouraged when I learn how well others are managing their blood sugar compared to my poor results.
It might make more sense for you to focus on Time-In-Range than the A1c number.
I do think we’re all very different and that’s why comparing our numbers to others can be less helpful sometimes.
One thing to consider could be the iLet insulin pump. It aims for an A1c of 7% but with limited work (no carb counting). So if you and your medical team are happy with 7% (which many are) it could be a way of achieving that without having to live and breath diabetes
Thanks for your comments.
I have been a T1 for 40 years and have had a A1C in the non diabetic range for the last 39 years. My personal belief is that the key to A1C success is to try and keep your minute by minute bs as close to normal as possible. And when you have a high blood sugar for whatever the reason that you due something about it as quickly as you can. The key to A1C success is to never have a high blood sugar during the 90 day cycle between your A1C blood tests because I certainly do, but when I have high blood sugars they are not high for a extended period of time before I take additional insulin to bring them back to normal. Remember that the A1C is a 90 day average of your blood sugar and a few 2-3 hour long high blood sugars once or twice a week will not be your downfall of your A1C’s. And my personal opinion which works for me is that if you never experience a low blood sugar then you probably don’t have a non diabetic A1C like myself!
I’ve found out that stop eating around 7/7:30pm just before bed I drink a pint of filtered water from the cooler, this helps my readings in the morning and yes you may or may not get up at night for a P!!!!
I had one of the most respected Endo's in the 1970's he said A1c under 8 was my goal... fast forward today now they say A1c 7 or 154. Carb counting, Insulin pump CGM are key goals.
Yes, the goals have changed a bit over the years
Mine has been at 5.8 for a year. I could not get a fasting blood glucose under 100. But, I've been eating very low carb for the last 3 weeks and for the last few days I've been getting fasting blood glucose readings in the low 90s.
My Libre gives me averages so I can pretty much tell the doctor what my A1c is going to be before he checks it. My sugar levels seems to like about 150 under steady state conditions, so I microdose maybe 2 or 3 units and it drops it down to about 100 if I don't eat anything after for a few hours . Sometimes a walk helps and sometimes not, the microdose always seems to work.
I’m a big fan of micro dosing as well. My endo pointed out that it’s very similar to what insulin pumps do
I am on the tandem mobi pump for about 3 months with in range generally around 75%. I will never reach a mid - 6 A1c level.