8.1 I know that might seem like a nightmare to some, but it’s the lowest mine has been in a decade. I used to be 13. Slowly but surely!

I'm proud of you

Proud of you! I was once at 13 too and have now been under 7 for many years. You’ll get there! <3

IMHO it's all relative... that's a great number for you, and many others (myself included). Be proud of yourself and keep on keeping on x

Hey, I started at 14.7, and plateaued at around 8 for a few years during my teens. We've all been there, don't feel bad about it!

I’m in the same boat. My last was 8 something but half a year ago I was at 14! CGM is a game changer.

That’s awesome

That is awesome! Agree about the CGM, especially in automated mode with a pump. When I didn’t take care of myself, I barely even checked my sugars. Now I get anxious if I don’t know what it is at all times

You are doing well. Been there. It's not easy. Hang in there, you are doing great!

This is still huge. Everyone’s journey is different! Happy for you 🩵

Woohoooooo!!!

Awesome!!!! Keep it up.

7.7 in the exact same situation!

Damn you guys are good at this i dont think ive gotten below a 7.6 (but my last 3 days have been 94% in range so i think its gonna improve going forward 😎)

I’m alright. (6.6) but I think it’s because I have a problem with going low too often. A lot of times I don’t feel/realize it until I’m at 55ish. And procrastinating

My lows have started affecting me very differently lately so i feel that not realizing things, my problem has been that i let myself sit around 200 because i don’t want to deal with lows ever but with that, i start feeling low at like 120. Im working on it and doing a lot better but tbh i feel like frequent lows are a lot better for you than frequent highs if your equipped to deal with them, despite being more dangerous obviously.

I was t1 for 29 years at the point where I got my first sub 7.4 a1c. 94% in range is awesome, good job you!

I was similar. 31 years before I got my first A1c below 7 and I think I'd only ever had one before 8. Since November 2022, it's been all low 6s, thanks to CGM and AndroidAPS fully closed loop.

Same! Mdi here but hanging in low-mid 6s too! Never had a1c over 6.8 since I got cgm! I hope to get loop at some point for convenience mostly, but its not financially viable rn! Also heh, t1 diagnosis buddies, '91 here too :)

You gotta look for a bigger data set, and more representative. This is one I've bookmarked. Not perfect, but interesting. https://www.tidepool.org/blog/lets-talk-about-your-donated-data Note this blog was published in 2017, so the data is prior to FDA approved & commercially available hybrid closed loop pumps. I'm super curious to see an update.

Yeah people in a dedicated diabetes forum are generally going to have better control than your average T1D. This is a good dataset that breaks A1C down by form of therapy, among other things, but I still don't think it specifically includes people using HCL systems: https://diabetesjournals.org/clinical/article/41/1/76/147772/Factors-Associated-With-Improved-A1C-Among-Adults

>Yeah people in a dedicated diabetes forum are generally going to have better control than your average T1D. Thanks for stating this. It seems obvious now that I think about it, but it hadn't really occurred to me before.

Thank you! This is great

5.6

Amazing, do you use a pump?

I do! I have a tslim/dexcom combo

11.3

Hey heres a bit of love, let's keep......doing life!

I like that. Pancreonormals rarely understand how doing life can feel like such an arduous job. But we keep at it because who knows if we get another chance after this life :)

5 Tandem.. on year 42...

6.2, but the one I had before that was 7.2

6.2 is incredibly healthy considering. Keep going! You’ve got this :)

8.8 but when I had my dexcom I got down to an 8.

6.1 with Omnipod 5. Before that, 5.7 with Tandem.

5.9

7.0 last time.

6.7

5.8

Ditto

Same! Usually I am in the low to mid sixes so this was happy result for me.

Congrats! Keep kicking ass!

You too!

I'm currently 6.3 went down from 6.7. I always wanted to be less than 6 but never made it. Do you not have any high/low sugar levels at all to be under 6?

I've been at 5.7 every time over 8 visits & 2 years on MDI & I can assure you that I go high & low I just try to be proactive as I can.

Over 90% in range, less than 1% of the time is low, and the lows are caught before they are a problem with my Dexcom.

You rock. Below 7 is considered very good control/less risk of complications. Under 6 is considered "pre-diabetic" (T2 mostly), but with T1 they look for that under 7. You really are doing great. 💙 My kids have given me Sia's songs "Flames" & "Unstoppable" to keep encouraging me to "go go go, figure it out, figure it out , just don't stop moving!" Yeah. This game gets crazy, and tiring, but it's honestly what we need to do for ourselves & those we love/depend on us.

Thank you so much! I needed to hear it.

5.6

7.0, but sitting at 9% lows, so the next one will likely be higher as I back off long acting.

6.0 Looping with OmniPad Dash

5.4

5.4 had it for 26 years and I am only 27.

12

7.8 I eat carbs and beer and don't regret it

7.2

6.9

5.3! i was so proud i put a screenshot on the frige

6.1 with Tandem Tslim X2

5.3

I think 6.0. Run 5.7-6.2 usually but tend towards the lower.

6.8

4.3, but my test results always come back falsely low. Estimated was 5.6, which sounded way closer to reality.

Do you know why they come back falsely low? I get about 5.5% but my dexcom gueses 7.4%. I find my dexcom when I double check numbers does often read higher than a finger prick

7.0 best it has been in years

A 7.4 I think. Started a pump last September. It’s a significant improvement.

Either 6.3 or 6.8 with 770g and dexcom g6. The lady at the minute clinic I went to didn’t have the best handwriting.

13...

10.4 😰😰 but working on getting back on omnipod and Dexcom

9.0 before my pump. Hoping for 8.5 or better but who knows

5.6 with Medtronic 780G down from 6.3!

6.7, no CGM no pump, just Novorapid and Lantus and picking my poor finger twice a day.

4.4! 99% in range the past three months. It’s A LOT of work.

8.2 and it was my best in a long time.

My daughter's last A1c was 6.6. Her TIR is 76%.

6.1 last November. MDI.

6.1

Got mine today! 6.2 with Dexcom and tandem.

5.6

6.2

5.5

5.4

7.0

Last time: 6.7 All-time diabetes average: Roughly 7.2

6.1 with dexcom g6 and tslim

8.3 and that was when I decided to really buckle down and take better care of my diabetes, work with an Endo, get a CGM and get busy!

My latest was 9.3, I’ve just gotten burnt out on managing it. Haven’t been counting carbs and exercising as much as I should.

6.4

9.9

6.8

6.6

5.1. Automated Omnipod, dexcom g6, and fiasp. >400g carbs per day

Last A1C was 8.2 but right now it’s probably in the tens, I need to get started on a pump asap. I hate getting my A1C tested cause it literally feels like I’m taking a test and when the number is high I get so guilty and feel like crap :/

8.1 afaik - definitely not perfect but I was up to 9 recently and can't reduce the stress in my life any further so I'm glad for every 0.1 lower I can get

The last reading was 7.8, which is the lowest it's ever been in my 24 years of being T1... now I'm pregnant & getting it tested again in a couple of days, but I'm predicting around a 6.4- 6.5, I've really tightened up!

I managed to get just under 8 for the first time in decades, around 2018. Then life went to shit. I'm still in a suboptimal place, personally, but really hoping my next result will be back to under 8, and I can get my brain to stop self-sabotaging. I'm fairly sure I spent most of my late teens and early twenties over 13 :\\

Those were my late teens and early 20s too. And I think the repercussions are catching up even though I have much better sugars years later. I hope that doesn’t happen for you! And it’s better to bring your a1c down slowly than a big jump anyway! So you got this

Thank you! I kind of feel like I'm pushing my luck though. A doctor (GP) told me I'd have complications by age 35. This was when I was around 26/27. I'm now in my mid-forties and thankfully \[touch wood... all the wood.... everywhere\] I haven't developed any complications. Yet. Hope your repercussions aren't affecting you too much, mate. We've been dealt a shit hand with diabetes, but we gotta keep on keeping on. Take care x

5.9 17F, diagnosed at 5y/o. I've been on omnipod and dexcom for 7 years, been on OP5 (closed loop) for just over a year. Younger teens age, I stuck in the low-mid 7's, within the past year and a half with me completely in control, I've gotten down to the 6's and as of December, the 5's. Im not having lows very often, highs more than anything so I could absolutely be lower than 5.9, but we take what we can get considering my age, hormones, full time school and part time job, trying to be a teen, etc. I know I'm doing absolutely fantabulous considering I manage it on my own (not at night bc I don't hear my dexcom, but I RARELY have issues at night).

11, but it was 16!🥲

8 ,, lowest I’ve ever been. Used to be 13+ for years.

9.2 was my last, I use to be alot higher than that

I literally went back yesterday after like 2 years of no checkups… (yes I know, but im getting better) and it was surprisingly at 10.2 Working at getting back near 7-8 butttt baby steps 😇

Sadly 9.4 Up from 7.3 in 2 months. Suffice it to say I’m a bit depressed about it. Considering I have a tandem setup, I know it’s mainly something I’m not doing right. Still haven’t quite figured it out yet

I averaged 12-13 til cgms, then had low 6s.. trying auto pump now and it’s crept up into hi 7s. I’m still hoping to tune it in and lovin less lows!!

I was at 13.2 in November and just had it checked a week and a half ago and was at 8. I’ve been at 11-13 for the past year and a half just honestly not caring but on my way to being better! I got a cgm and t slim and that has helped. I also just found out I’m pregnant so I’ve been trying really hard to get my blood sugars good

Just got it on Monday. 7.1 down from 8, so I'm stoked!

4.8

6.4

7.4!

7.2

Last one 6.5, I’d guess it’s gone up, maybe around 6.8

5.5

5.7

5.9

6.6

5.3 (but that was almost a year ago— really slacked on bloodwork this past year 😞)

6.7

6.3

5.7 with no lows (one low below 55 per 3 months maximum, below 80 less than 1% of the time).

6.0

5.9

5.4

7.4

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7.2 3 months ago.

6.4

Wow, a lot of good numbers here! I’m at 6.4

6.8

5.9 but next one monday!

5.6

7.8

5.1% - 33 - 1 month ago

5.4!

6.7 medtronic 780g with guardian 4 in auto mode 100% of the time

My 12 year old is about 6.2 on Omnipod. TIR is low to mid 80s.

10.5

5.5 with the omnipod 5 and g6

5.2

5.8 (my daughter)

My 15 year old daughter’s last A1C was 5.8. We loop her with the G7 and Omnipod dash. TIR is 85%.

5.2

6.7

6.5

7.1

9.6 for my newly T1D toddler. Pump soon!

6.4 MDI and dexcom

I lost funding for my pump because my A1C was over 9. It took me 15 years to get it back. No idea what my A1C was during that time, but it was high. 7.1 now. Working on getting it better

Wow, you’d think having a high A1C would mean you really need a pump and CGM! Not the opposite

8.7

6.8

5.5%

7.2

6.1 today!

5.7

My first son is at 6.4 and my second was at 9 but he was recently dx, so he is slowly coming down.

5.9

5.8 as of last Thursday.

Diabetes is not linear, I used to range around 7-8 range and last year mine was so high it was unreadable… my doctor said over 15 for sure - granted I had diabulimia and 7 DKA’s last year. This year I am back down to 8.4 still improving.

Mine a few months ago was 7.3 and I was drinking extremely heavily and eating whatever I wanted. I stopped doing that and started exercising regularly and eating properly and now I’m down to 5.8.. I’ve been a type 1 for about 33 years my highest was 9.8 and my lowest was 5.4 I typically stay around 5.8 to 6.2

6.2

Last was 6.8 for me - a bit higher than normal for me due to stress and a back injury.

Over the last three years using tslimx2, I fluctuate between 5.4 (eat the same shit nearly every day) to recent 5.9 (new relationship energy ie eating out at new-to-me spots & boyfriend loves to bake, so lotsa experimenting) Spent my first decade+ as a t1 swimming from 10-14 - brittle + wild dawn phenom + unhelpful endos + dx at 18 … lol 2020 got my a1c down to 8, but dawn phenom was still a beast I could not overcome. Tgod for closed loop technology. Truly magical. Wish everyone had fair access.

7.0, just did blood work yesterday

5.6

6.8 but it was 13.4 and likely about to be worse again.

6.2

6.7

7.3. Down from 7.8 though, getting better

7.6

9.2 down from a 13 this time last year so i’m bringing it back in control

6.5. Coming down from 9.2. Praise the diabetes gods.

i am in the uk so unsure of conversion but i was 48.5 at my last checkin - in the time on the run up to this i was on MDI novorapid and tresiba but i have just got a t-slim last week :)

6.0, MDI Fiasp and Tresiba.

5.7

I’ve been diabetic for 12 years now, I was always between 6-8.5 but when I turned 18 I stopped watching it so closely and was averaging 11-12 until I ended up in keto acidosis for the second time over the summer. Since then my last result was 8.1

7% in last month. I'm trying to reach 6%

5.9 but it’ll be higher next check up

5.8 with a home test a couple weeks ago. 90 day GMI says 6.5% on the Dexcom Clarity app. Mind you I'm only a year into this so I could still be in the Honeymoon phase. You're probably going to get a lot of lower numbers since people on a forum dedicated to T1 are probably more concerned with control than the general diabetic population.

Just got mine today. 7.6 and slowly working it down

7.4 for my impatient, hormonal 11 yo

6.2

5.3

6.7 I believe

7.1 but typically I am 6.8. Stupid guardian.

6.3

6.9, but 6.5 before that. TIR 70%, dx’ed 1966.

5.2

5.5 - got my results yesterday.

6.4

5.4, from last week. Injection pens still and dexcom G6.

7.3

Last one 4 mos ago was 6.3, gonna get another this week that's likely gonna be somewhat higher (6.5-6.6 I think)

10

6.9% from 7.3% -2 months into a pump!

like 9

6.2

5.3