[adrianconnelly]

Hi all.

GB is absolutely wonderful for me - both the web site species and the iPhone app. I use it all the time, although I'm in the middle of writing a PC based program that takes my logs from the web site and prints them with the dates in dd/mm/yyyy format for my doctors' benefit. I'm thinking that some event-based graphs might also help, but first things first.

I recently got my latest a1c from the last blood test (sampled in late June). It dropped a whopping 4 percentage points from 11% to 7% in just 3 months! My sugars were just awful about 3 months ago and the doc put me on Lantus insulin as well as my meds (Metformin and Diamicron). He told me that after about 10 years on meds alone, they often cease to do the job properly by themselves and quite a number of type 2s need to go on insulin as well. I was diagnosed 11 years ago.

It worked. I'm getting the vast majority of BG readings below 8 mmol/L (that's 144 mg/dL for all my US friends), hence the huge drop in my a1c reading.

GB is pretty accurate with its GBa1c estimator too. It said 6.9% when the lab said 7%, well within the statistical margin of error.

I just did the estimator again and got a very pleasing 6.2%!

Just look at how happy this face is. https://www.glucosebuddy.com/forum/i...es/biggrin.gif

Cheers
Adrian
Sydney, Australia

[dano]

Congratulations! It will not be long before you are in the 5% Club.

[anotherfangirl]

Originally Posted by adrianconnelly

I use it all the time, although I'm in the middle of writing a PC based program that takes my logs from the web site and prints them with the dates in dd/mm/yyyy format for my doctors' benefit.

Shouldn't you be able to do that in excel? The site already kicks it out into a csv file.

[adrianconnelly]

Originally Posted by anotherfangirl

Shouldn't you be able to do that in excel? The site already kicks it out into a csv file.

Yes, but it's tedious to have to set the XL column widths, date format, paging etc etc. every time you import the csv file to Excel.

My app takes the csv file (incl via drag-n-drop) and automatically shows event-based details which can be printed and/or graphed using user-defined colours for each event. Any event can be highlighted (bold) in the list for easier/quicker picture of how my sugars are tracking. I usually set that to the Out of Bed event.

It also filters the readings by any combination of events (eg Out of Bed, Before Breakfast etc) and the full data can be limited to the past 7, 14, 21, 30 and 90 days with just a couple of mouse clicks. It also shows stats for count, mean, median, min, max and std deviation and it can display my readings in either mmol/L or mg/dL.

I only deal with the BG readings, not food etc; but my doctors, dietician, diabetes educator et al just love it. Attached (I hope) are a screen dump of the main screen (jpg file) and 2 pdfs showing printed output.

Cheers.

[dano]

Well done adrianconnelly!

[654]

Congratulations on a job well done!!!

I started at a 10.6 and now at 5.7.
Don't you feel much better? I do!

[bevimus]

Wait a go Adrian! Keep kickin'!

[adrianconnelly]

Just got my latest A1c from the lab. It's now down to a very healthy 5.9%.

Woohoo!

[dano]

Congratulations!

It looks like your program is working for you!

[peltier416]

Hi adrianconnely, you have every reason to brag. Keep up the great work.