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Sounds too good to be true, but it worked for me!

My family doctor put me on metformin because my A1C hit 6.0. After 9-12 months of exercise and losing weight (40 lbs) my A1C hit 6.3.

FIX:
I love diet coke to the point i'm almost addicted to it and the more I worked out the more diet coke I was drinking (increasing my A1c). I read on the internet (so it must be true) that a study show that diet soda can increase the A1C giving an increased false reading. My daily BS readings did not match my A1C so I gave up diet soda just to see what would happen. Three months later my A1C was 5.7 which matched my BS averages.

I thought a A1C of 5.7 was good, read on.................

One year later I found out I had low (almost no) testosterone. Now once a week, I get a testosterone injection. With the testosterone fixed, I now have tons of energy, a great sex life and I feel like a million bucks. AS A BONUS my BS is 83-89 every morning, thats a 15-20 point drop!

Im sure this won't work for most people, but just maybe this might help someone.

Also, looking back, I tried to explain to my family doctor and my dietitian that my daily BS readings were a little high, but never over the limit, but no one really listened. The only advice I got was diet, exercise and keep taking your meds. I ask about diet soda raising increasing the A1C, but everyone just looked at me funny and said "huh".

I don't think I was ever really diabetic, I was just misdiagnosed by a doctor that rushed in and rushed out and would not listen to what I was trying to tell him. I now have a new doctor.



Checkout these links:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/22...and-diet-soda/
http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2008/12/15/6018/