Well I just got my most recent sent of blood work back and my Hemoglobin A1C numbers (a 90 day average of my blood sugars) is down from 10.7% to 7.7%. That’s a drop of 3 points in 1 month!

Now part of the story here is that I went off my meds for 2 months. The first reading with got me the 10.7 was 60 days un-medicated. My second reading, taken 1 month later now had 60 medicated and showed a remarkable difference.

I’m not out of the woods by any means. Testing my daily blood sugars is the bane of my existence. three times a day I need to take readings and that means more pricking and more blood. I’m going to be testing out a new device that will monitor my blood sugar levels for 1 week, 24/7. The device has a transmitter that sends info to a reader constantly. I have to change out the transmitter and insertion point once a week – but that’s better than remember 21 times that I need to do a sugar reading.

More on the monitoring device later…

For the last several weeks I have been trying to reduce my carb intake and focusing more on vegetables and proteins. I have also been remiss and have not been cooking much in the last 30 days. That will have to change. The “In The Kitchen” section on the blog is looking kinda empty these days.

So a small victory for me that I brought my A1C numbers down, but let’s see if we can get it below 6.0 and keep it there!