Posted on 05/09/2010 10:40:42 AM PDT by bert
I am posting my thoughts on my participation in a drug trial for a new drug to treat type II diabetes. I have been diagnosed for 6 years but it has been in the last year that my A1C and blood glucose number have crept up to 7.1 and fasting level of >140
My primary care doctor suggested me as a possible participant because my numbers have recently crept above 140 and 7.1. He is a family practice doctor and a member of a medical group with a specialized team that provides care for diabetes patients. The team consists of several nurses and lab techs working under a physician. Additionally, there is a clinical research team that allows group physicians to participate in various research projects in addition to their normal practice. All the above are combined in the trial involving me as a participant.
The details of the study can be found on the following link
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01071850?term=diabetes&rcv_d=14
I was not on medication before the trial. Diet seemed to have no significant effect. Exercise was the factor that made the difference.
Age is the factor that seems to have has changed
my husband like you had a ‘high’ low point, but with much work we have gotten it down into the 60-70 range. But not without some too high highs and too low lows.
How are diabetes and pre-diabetes diagnosed?
FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list.
“In modern medicine, numbers are everything. Determining and interpreting members and their variance from established norms is the name of the game. Blood tests are a primary, perhaps the primary source of numbers.”
Unless it does something other than just lower the numbers, then I am not interested. This obsession with numbers has not proven to affect the long term complications of diabetes. People are treating the symptoms and not the undelying disease. Do not be lulled into a false sense of security.
It's not.
They feed you?
I am soooo there!
Where did ASOC say his brother had diabetes?
.....Some years ago the cut off for fasting plasma glucose was reduced to 126 from 140....
The difference between 149 and 126 is 14. Fourteen is a strange number except for the fact it is 10% of 140. The medical group studying the numbers concluded a reduction in the threshold was in order and agreed on a 10% reduction. It was some what arbitrary decision.
Realizing this fact I became skeptical of the whole process. Some of that skepticism remains but I have concluded that just because the diabetic condition is not completely understood, erring on the side of caution might save your eyesight.
About a year ago, I decided to see an endocrinologist because I felt that I needed the accountability. Having the other health problems leaves me severely fatigued sometimes and I tend to go with what is easy (ie, eat whatever is easiest). I am happy to report that I have been able to get my H1C from 8.0 to 6.8. Would like to see that even lower. I take Janumet and Actos, eat almost no sugar, potatoes, rice, or flour products.
1. Since this tread is about diabetes, it is natural to assume the subject was diabetes.
2. Since ASOC did not correct my assumption, I can further assume that that my assumption may be more than an assumption. ;-)
Or he’s off line...
Since this thread is also about being a guinea pig, I’m not certain that this particular guinea pig-hood is diabetes related, although I agree that’s the way to bet!
Also, bariatric surgery seems to “cure” type II in many patients, although the phrase used is to put it “in remission”.
As you will doubtless recall, no one was ever “cured of cancer” (indeed, it was illegal to even say you could cure cancer).
With more modern treatments cancer could be put “into remission” for years or decades or the remaining full natural life, but never cured!
I turned it around ten years ago with 6 months of holding my carb intake below 30.
I then gradually went back to the Standard America Diet (SAD) and gradually my symptoms came back. PCOS, a gradually elevating A1C, weight gain on a low-calorie diet.
This time my challenges are greater as I now also have hypothyroidism. A person with hypothyroidism cannot take their carbs to less than 40 or they will begin to create reverse T3 instead of T3.
I’m one month in, holding steady between 40-50g of carbs. I’ll get my physical in three months.
So far the biggest difference is that I feel better than I have in *years*! I’ve lost 15 pounds and I’m averaging a little more than a pound a week now that the initial water weight loss has stopped.
It’s been a gradual process adjusting to my new diet and I’m learning more about my body every day.
I forget to add that I’m also taking Metforamin.
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