Unexpected HbA1C Results

This is only the second HbA1c I’ve had since I’ve been on a pump, and one test I definitely didn’t want to have right now.

Since December (see prior post), I’ve been under the most incredible amount of stress.

I’ve increased my working hours from 20 in my home office to 50 per week outside, doing a favour for my best friend in running his businesses (the other director has “left”).

Then I had to deal with the sudden and unexpected disappearance of this same friend on 8th Feb, and eventual discovery that he’d been murdered.

Dealing with his distraught family, closing one business, attending the police station every day in those first couple of weeks to assist with inquiries and more has been horrid!

And as if that’s not enough, sometimes eating 2 carb-laden meals in town (when I usually do much lower carbs), including burgers, sushi, fries and worse, just grabbing a bag of crisps off the shelf when I was starving. And then ignoring the ‘test-now’ reminder on my pump because I was simply too busy. It made me very reluctant to have this test, which was already 2 months overdue and I had a big cringe with I heard the doctor’s voice on the phone this morning.

But I’d been doing combo boluses and TAG, thanks to being encouraged to learn more and understand how to do it better.

All things considered, a HbA1C of 6.8 is way better than I could have ever expected in a million years. And I’ve halved the protein I’m throwing! Wow… imagine if I could actually do my usual lower carb, wasn’t so stressed (usually raises my BG) and done combo boluses – imagine what the results would have been!

I was congratulated by my lovely family doctor, and I’m unexpectedly delighted today (you can’t imagine the numbers I was expecting). It’s still not ideal though – I’d like to be much lower – the kind of numbers research suggests causes the least long-term harm.

Definitely something to aim for!