Renewed Health Today

The HbA1c blood test is a measure of glucose levels on your blood. It measures the average levels glucose attachment to red blood cells that is the result over time, about three months. Generally the result is percent of glucose attachment to red blood cells. A test result of 5% - 6% is considered a normal level. It’s a good measure because it’s a long term number. You cannot cheat this result.

Your daily meter glucose reading is a spot reading. It is the level of glucose attachment to your red blood cells at the exact time you took the measurement. A test result is measured in milligrams of glucose per deciliters of blood. A test result of 70 mg/dL - 140 mg/dL is considered a normal level. If you don’t eat and take sample every 15 minutes for the next two hours it should drop. Eat something and it should climb again.

Try taking you daily meter glucose results for about a two weeks the find the simple average. Now you have an idea of what your HbA1c is all about.

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This blog is dedicated to life of renewed health regained in less than 45 days and completely renewed health a year later. A year ago in November I was diagnosed a Type I Diabetic by a young doctor. I was placed on a progressive dose of insulin to begin recovery. I had lost 48 pounds in weight in less than 30 days, despite eating like a horse. I was drinking Dr. Pepper by the six pack and water by the quart container. I was unable to always control my bladder. I was loosing the capability for sex. I had changed the strength of my reading classes twice. I was unable to sleep through the night. I had the stride of an eighty year old man on his last legs (I had been a life time jogger and bicycle rider). I enjoyed many more of those complications of a diabetic. I also had been dealing with all those wonder pills to cope with acid reflex disease.

Today I am a 58 year old man who has renewed his health. A year ago my glucose levels, measured twice daily, were off scale (more than 600). Today my glucose levels, again measured twice daily, are 110 - 115 in the morning and the 80 - 85 in the late afternoon. I take a Metformin once a day (500 mg) to control my glucose levels along with a much better diet plan as a Type II diabetic. My goal is to make small changes to my every day eating habits and life style to eliminate the once a day pill for an improved positive focus and small changes to my life style. I believe that it is simple and loosing 20 more pounds. Although I will need better discipline to loose those 20 pounds. This is the counsel of my mature, diabetic wise family doctor.

I have been told my renewed health today is fantastic. I realize I will be diabetic for the rest of my life. However, by accepting my condition and changing my life style to manage life as a diabetic, in many ways I am healthier today than I have been in years. I have shared with friends who are struggling to understand and cope with life as a diabetic. I dedicate this blog to helping you and my friends interested in managing life as a diabetic with common sense. I live a full active and rewarding life again. Now with a diabetic wake-up call, I live a healthier life style. My goal is to share with you, my friends, each those complications of diabetes I mentioned earlier that are now either reversed or under control. I follow the advice of my mature, diabetic wise family doctor along with the counsel of my naturalist friend who introduce me to diet supplements that I credit with the vast improvement in my daily health. I will share my Renewed Health Today experience with you each day or so.