March 1, 201610 yr As I mentioned a while back, when I went for my hip replacement surgery end of March last year they found my sugar levels way high and my A1C was at a 9...if you don't know what this is, let me just say it's not good and it put me in the "you are now a diabetic" conversation with my doctor. Well as I started to recover from my surgery and went back to my family doctor, I said I wanted to NOT take any kind of drugs and wanted to try and get it under control with diet and exercise. Exercise being something I had done almost none of for a couple of years due to the pain in my hip...I had became sedentary while having a terrible diet. So I have been going back and forth to the Dr's every so often, getting blood tests, also had some done in December thinking I possibly had mono and some liver enzyme levels were screwy so they wanted me to come back in for that as well. Went and had blood drawn last Tuesday, went back today to get the results. My glucose/blood sugar levels were 84! A1C had gone from a high of 9 last March, to 5.6 today and trending down! I have also lost about 45 pounds! So darn happy! My hip replacement has truly been a mini miracle...heck a BIG miracle for me and so happy and blessed that I was able to have it done and be so successful. Having it has allowed me to get active again and I think it's the biggest factor in my blood levels coming down the way they have. Cut way down on my sugars too and watching a little more what I eat, but I think the exercise has had an even bigger impact.:thumb: Edited March 1, 201610 yr by BigVMan23
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