I am 63 years old male, diagnosed with diabetes 4 years ago. Regularly using medication. The H1bAc index is vary between 6.8 to 7.8. Can it be brought to 5? Once brought to such level, can it be possible to live without medication?
You can control your blood sugar up to certain extent but not necessarily. When blood sugar can not be controlled with life style modification then next option is oral medicines and they fail then Insulin.
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