Hooray for me!

[dreamer_easy]

My hba1c blood test came back with a 6.3 average. To translate this into English, I'm managing my diabetes very well, and considerably better than on the last test earlier in the year. Huzzah!

(Ryss, you asked about my thyroid - turns out I had it checked at the start of the year and all was normal. I'd forgotten all about that amongst all the needles that get stuck in me, so thanks for reminding me to ask!)

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[drhoz.livejournal.com]

did you ever find out about the worm therapy?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

*snaps fingers* I meant to write to my gastroenterologist about it! Must remember to do that. Ta!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bigjobbies_/]

as someone who used to spend their life MEASURING A1c - Huzzah for you !

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Yayz0rs!

(What the heck does it stand for?!)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bigjobbies_/]

Hemoglobin A1c - it's basically a hemoglobin A molecule with a glucose molecule stuck to it. As the average blood glucose level increases, a higher percentage of hemoglobin get a glucose molecule attached.

Red blood cells get turned over roughly every three months - so measuring the A1c level gives a good idea of how well controlled you've been over the previous three months.

Levels between 6 and 7 indicate good control. Yay !

You probably knew most of that - I don't think the 1c stands for anything exciting - it's probably the aribtary name somebody called the peak on a chromatograph....

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Ta - I must have been told all that when I was first diagnosed, but a lot of it has fallen out of my brain by now. :-)

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

An A1C of less than 7 is BRILLIANT in a diabetic, well done you.

Thyroid, did you get the tests run? Ask me, I've been managing underactive thyroid for 5 years, its a bitch and its why i'm so fat (again!) but I can help if you need any assistance interpreting the tests. And DONT let em fob you off with just a TSH, *demand* an FT3, FT4, and antibodiy tests.

My TSH was 1.61, range 0.5 - 4.2. I was still underactive, FT3 and FT4 were under range, and i still felt like a slug...it *can* happen, evne though they think TSH is the be all end all of thyroid tests, TSH isnt even a thyroid hormone, its a pitiutary one....

[dinosaurcostume.livejournal.com]

I know I don't post v often but this is cool news. 'You Asked About My Thyroid' sounds like it could be a Magnetic Fields song.

Re-reading Set Piece on and off at the mo. Reminds me of Halo Jones (which I read for the first time last month, after its namecheck in Script Doctor)

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Good to hear! :)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I've read just one bit of Halo Jones - the very first one, IIRC, in a 2000 AD of my brother's. It had the bit about the ears.