In maintenance and A1C is too low?
I’ve been in maintenance since about February, with my weight in the range of about 125-130. But my PCP keeps lowering my dose because she’s worried that my a1c is getting too low. I’m not diabetic, and my a1c has always been ok. It went from 5.1 three months ago to 4.4 at my visit yesterday so my PCP is making me drop down to 5 mg. She also commented that my weight is still dropping, but it literally went from 134 to 132 in three months! How is that dropping? That’s just different clothes, different shoes, and maybe a big BM!
The bigger issue is that the lower my dose goes, the louder the food noise gets. I have really enjoyed silencing it, it’s been SUCH a relief to have all that head space cleared out. I can actually eat intuitively for the first time in my life, and it’s amazing. I’m really scared that it’s going to start up again and I’m going to be miserable trying to battle it again. I cannot live a life counting every calorie, weighing all my food, obsessing over what I can and can’t eat and when. I can’t go back to that.
Has anyone had this experience before? How can I push back if the food noise gets to be too much? When I tried to tell her about that, she kind of talked over me and made a comment about it being more of a mental health issue if it’s that bad. But if being on this medication has taught me anything, it’s that this isn’t just in my head, and I know that no amount of therapy can change my genes.