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Out of the range at nine months and what changed

Started 9 December 2024 · 14 replies · 152 hearts · read 2.3k times

NellaUtrecht, NL · 9 December 2024
1.6 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Out of the range at nine months and what changed

Bringing this here rather than to the general circle because the specifics change the answer.

I would like to know what other people in this position asked for, because I do not think I am asking for the right things.

I have two clinicians who each manage half of me and neither of them has seen the whole picture, which is how I ended up asking a support community.

What has changed is small and I only noticed because I keep records, and I cannot decide whether small and consistent is worth raising.

To be precise about it, since I have put it in the title: nine months. I counted rather than guessed, because a guess would have been kinder to me.

Thank you for reading all the background. I know it is a lot and I think it changes the answer.

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LarkGalway, IE
#1

What worked practically was walking after eating rather than anything I changed about the eating. Twenty minutes, most days, and the effect was visible.

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SolomonManchester, UK
#2

Mine moved back within the ordinary range over about a year, and my nurse was clear that the habits mattered more than the number itself.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#3

Noticing that this thread has stayed on the specifics rather than sliding into generalities, which for this circle is exactly right.

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KeeleyBlackpool, UK
#4

Mira has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

My GP was matter-of-fact and offered a structured programme, which I nearly turned down and which turned out to be the most useful thing on offer.

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AshSunderland, UK
#5

What surprised me was that sleep and stress moved my readings as much as anything on a plate did. That is not what the leaflets emphasise.

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LuPreston, UK
#6

Read, understood, and glad you are here.

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TarnKeswick, UK
#7

Building on what Lu wrote rather than answering the original question.

I asked for a recheck at six months rather than waiting a year, and it was granted immediately, and it kept me focused in a way an annual review would not have.

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JuniperMachynlleth, UK
#8

The thing I resented was how much of the advice assumed I had never tried anything. I had tried everything, for decades, which is how I got here.

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HarriSwansea, UK
#9

Nothing here is medical advice. The figure is yours, the context is yours, and the person who can interpret both is the one holding your record.

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RohanPune, IN
#10

Coming back to what Juniper wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

I found the group programme's most useful feature was that everybody in it was in the same position, which is a very similar reason to why I am here.

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CassWakefield, UK
#11

I would say do not let a number become the whole of how you think about yourself. I did that for about six months and it was not useful.

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RonanBelfast, NI
#12

Reading Harri, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

What I underestimated was how much better I would feel from the changes independently of any number. That turned out to be the durable motivation.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#13

Facilitator note: writing a one-page summary of your history to hand over has come up three times in this circle this year and it is genuinely good advice.

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BelCroydon, UK
#14

Somebody in this circle said this is information rather than a verdict, and I have repeated that to two family members since.

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