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[The Hobbit/Thorin Oakenshield]

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[The Vincent Black Shadow]

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[El Goonish Shive]

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[Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]

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[Penny Dreadful]

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[Blake's 7]

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[Homestuck]

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Sweetie, are you perhaps thinking of type 1 diabetes? Type 2 CAN be turned around, even if you've had it for years. My dad ended up with the hospital for pleurisy (fluid around the lungs, basically, he had a ridic amount, they filled up two huge cartons the first DAY and continued doing so for several o.o) and they did a run of the mill sugar test. I don't know his A1C numbers but his sugar in the hospital on that first test was in excess of 450. Yeah. He got put on two forms of insulin and metformin STAT.

Two years later, with diet and exercise, he was off ALL the medication. He has to be very strict but this is honestly more because of his personality. Addiction runs in the family (thankfully it seems to be limited to the men, so it hasn't affected me) and his is food/sugar. He can't eat in moderation. Give him a spoonful of ice cream, and he'll be through the carton in fifteen minutes. We aren't talking the pint sized ones here, either.

He'd had it for years, just undiagnosed.

Type 1 diabetes is the one where your pancreas can no longer produce insulin, period. It can hit later in life but it's nowhere near as common as type 2, and type 2 is recoverable.

My own story! I was diagnosed borderline diabetic. If my sugar levels had been a tad bit higher, and my A1C was pretty close to yours, I think 6.4, and my sugars were testing at 125 (cut-off was told to me as 130). My endo wanted me on metformin, but I asked to try diet. When I got my A1C checked a year later (I probably shouldn't have gone that long but I had access to testing kits so I was able to check my glucose regularly) it was well within normal ranges. 5.8, I think. I haven't had it checked in a bit but it's gotten lower.

I don't know what changes you've made but if your doctor says that you're doing well, you're doing good! Unless you've specifically been diagnosed with type 1, you're on the way to recovery. :)

The literature that I was given and things I was told by my doctor and dietitian are that it takes 2 high A1Cs to make the diagnosis, and that part of Type 2 diabetes is that your body no longer handles insulin properly. Type 1 is when your body doesnt produce insulin at all.

That's somewhat of an oversimplification. Yes, it means that you'll have to be careful and change your diet to something healthy, but that doesn't mean you can never have treats or something. I personally switched to the glycemic index diet and at this point I'm not nearly as strict about it, but my A1C and random blood sugar tests come out fine. I haven't had anything over about 98, and that one was taken after eating because I was curious.

It's something you'll have to watch closely, yes, and you'll want to stick to a general guideline of a diet that works for you, but from what you've said you're only slightly diabetic. It's probably not going to be that hard to manage, and from my own experience, if you do make a lifestyle diet change then I'd think it shouldn't actually take too long to get it back into a decent range.

It's scary at first but really, if you're that slightly into it, it oughtn't be difficult to get your sugars down into reasonable ranges, and if you're committed to eating healthy (and the response from your doctor regarding that is promising), it's something that you really do adjust to and it becomes second nature. At least in my case.

Granted, in my case I also wanted to eat healthy but felt I had to eat cheap and didn't deserve healthy food (my partner may have had a conniption when they heard me say this, with several curses towards the people who trained me into feeling that way through guilt trips and gaslighting) - so for me it was possibly less of a big deal than it might be for others.

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