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My A1c improved and my lipids got worse

Started 2 November 2025 · 17 replies · 128 hearts · read 1.3k times

SolomonManchester, UK · 2 November 2025
9 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: My A1c improved and my lipids got worse

I have had this diagnosis for a long time and none of the general advice quite fits me.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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KeeleyBlackpool, UK
#1

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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RomyVienna, AT
#2

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#3

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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InêsPorto, PT
#4

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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BaySt Ives, UK
#5

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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AnnaAthens, GR
#6

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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PippaTruro, UK
#7

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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CarlMiddlesbrough, UK
#8

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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EphraimBrooklyn, NY
#9

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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BunnyWeston-super-Mare, UK
#10

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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RohanPune, IN
#11

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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NellFrome, UK
#12

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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DuncanPerth, UK
#13

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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GwendaEbbw Vale, UK
#14

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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NoahHull, UK
#15

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#16

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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SadieSalford, UK
#17

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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