A good trip to the endo!

Let's start with the good news and the lessons learned: A1C of just 5.3, taken with a little finger-prick and a desktop device of some kind right in the office.  Outstanding!  This qualifies as "normal", although I have to (a) take metformin, (b) limit my diet, and (c) exercise like a fanatic, to keep it that way.

The lesson learned is that, with my average pre-meal BG reading of about 95 (American) over the last ninety days, the question was always, well it's 95 before your meals, but what is it *after* your meals?  Well, BG of 95 would come to an A1C of about 4.94, so my actual A1C of 5.3 is less than ten percent higher.  Pretty darned OK.

And, the endo himself just sits there with a silly smirk on his face.  I'm not sure exactly what that means, but he says, "You're making the diabetes go away."  He doesn't want to say, but I get the feeling he doesn't see this happen very often, not to this extent.

The backstory is that this last January I showed up in my doctor's office very thirsty, he took some blood, then called me back two days later - and told me to go to the ER immediately!  My BG and A1C were whoopee high.  Pretty much out of the blue.  They fixed me in the ER and admitted me for three days of observation.  I didn't know what it all meant, but I guess they must have assumed I had appeared with LADA.  I was sent home with both long-acting and short-acting insulin, and only the vaguest idea how to use them.  A month later didn't need the insulin, but doctor was sure the metformin alone wouldn't do it so he put me on Jardiance as well.  Two months later, running average pre-meal BG of about 85 I decided to try without the Jardiance and the endo just said, "Sure, play with that", his exact words.

So, if you find yourself hospitalized for a few days with an out-of-the-blue BG and H1C reading of sky high - don't let it get you down, just maybe you can be as lucky as me.

There's more to the story, and the story is ongoing, especially in the area of diet.  And I know my good results are as much luck as anything.  Those BG readings could easily have ended me in a month or two without treatment.  The hospital stay and diagnosis were far from clear.  My first day home was nearly my last.  None of this is easy.  But I hope this is a good story for people who wander in with anything like a similar experience.

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