unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about glycaemic control is guesswork
Something I keep coming back to: unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about glycaemic control is guesswork. Time in range told me far more than the average did. Two quarters with the same A1c looked completely different on the sensor. Assumed the weight endpoints from the obesity trials applied to my…
Incretin-based agents stimulate insulin secretion in a glucose-dependent manner, which is why hypoglycaemia risk with them alone is low. Risk rises with agents that act independently of glycaemia.
Variability dropped before the average did, which was visible on the sensor and invisible on the lab result.
hypoglycaemia risk depends far more on what else you take
How long between the two A1c measurements?
Have you taken this to whoever manages your diabetes?
My triglycerides moved and it turned out to have nothing to do with glucose at all.
Agreed on variability. Two people with the same average can have completely different days.
Kept fingersticks alongside the sensor for two weeks to sanity-check it. Worth doing once.
Agreed. A1c is an integrated average over roughly three months and treating it as a current reading causes a lot of unnecessary alarm.
Panicked over a first-day sensor reading and rebuilt my week around it. It was the sensor.