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After putting it off for as long as possible, I got my quarterly blood work done last Wednesday. I expected disappointing results and wasn\u2019t very surprised with them when they came in. In a way, I was a little relieved.<\/p>\n

After months of high blood sugar and days of chasing down my numbers with correction after correction, I was sure my A1c<\/strong> was going to be terrible.<\/p>\n

It took a few days for the result to come in and while I waited, checking online every few hours, my fructosamine result came in.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t have noticed fructosamine<\/strong> at all, but for the fact that it was totally out of range \u2013 571<\/strong> (normal range is 122-236).\u00a0 I had no clue what that meant. So I looked it up and according to Wikipedia<\/a> and a bunch of other sources it measures average blood sugar levels over three weeks and is used when an A1c test is not useful (like when an extreme change in diet has taken place over the last few weeks). It is also uncertain exactly how this translates to A1c or blood sugar levels since it changes from lab to lab (again, according to Wikipedia) but the bottom line was that my 571 result translated into a little over 11% A1c.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My original fear had been an A1c of over 8%, but 11% seemed impossible.\u00a0 So before totally freaking out I decided to wait for my A1c to come in.\u00a0 Although it was the highest it has been since my type 1 diabetes diagnosis 11 years ago, I\u2019m happy to say that it was only 7.4%.<\/p>\n

This is very far from being good news especially since I was hoping to improve my A1c<\/a>, but there is an upside to it all.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ve finally figured something out \u2013 my basal rate was too low. \u00a0<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, after waking up with a BG of 240, I decided to set a temporary basal rate of 120% and since then my blood sugar has been significantly lower. I may need to tweak it a bit but the direction is definitely correct. The only real problem is my endo, who wants my basal to bolus ratio to be lower. She claims<\/a> only people with type 2 diabetes have a 60%-70% basal to 30%-40% bolus ratio. I\u2019ve tried to explain that I eat low carb but it seems not to register.\u00a0 I feel like with all her very good intensions she doesn\u2019t understand that I know more about my diabetes than she does. I live with it 24\/7 and she sees me for 15 minutes every 3-4 months.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll have to wait and see what she actually says but if I need to ignore her recommendation I will because it\u2019s my <\/em>A1c and it\u2019s coming down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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