Jakarta –
A netizen in Tasikmalaya named Irfan Ferlanda (29) shared his experience of suffering from diabetes at a young age. He suspects that his diabetes started from his habit of consuming packaged sweet drinks.
Irfan said it all started when he underwent minor lipoma surgery in August 2023 when he was 28 years old. The doctor who carried out the examination found that he had high blood sugar levels.
Hearing the doctor’s words, he admitted that he was surprised because he was still relatively young and diabetes was known to have a stigma as a disease of the elderly. The next day, he decided to have an HbA1c check to confirm his health condition.
“When I came home from the hospital, I immediately checked my fasting blood sugar the next day. The result was 150, normally it’s 70-130. I didn’t believe it, I went for an HbA1c test in the lab and the result was 8.7 even though the normal is less than 5.7. I really remember that time I was shaking and afraid of dying. Moreover, the child is still small,” said Irfan, quoted from his X account with permission, Friday (1/12/2023).
He admitted that he previously had an unhealthy lifestyle. Irfan said that he rarely exercised and often consumed sweet drinks.
“In May 2023, he still weighed 90 kg and was 165 cm tall, vaped, worked only sitting, never exercised, and almost every day drank sweets, especially packaged sweet tea. Really almost every day,” he told detikcom. .
Since the diagnosis, Irfan has slowly changed his entire lifestyle 180 degrees. He was advised to take medication, but he decided to try changing his lifestyle first. If this method doesn’t work, then he decides to take medication.
He changed his lifestyle by limiting daily calories, exercising, getting enough sleep, and staying away from foods such as fried foods, flour, sweet drinks, and changing white rice to brown rice.
“So for the last 3 months I haven’t taken any medication. I’ve really just changed my lifestyle 180 degrees. Everything is an effort to achieve diabetes remission,” explained Irfan.
“One of the doctors who is also a friend of mine asked for metformin at the community health center. I chose to try it for 3 months first to try a diet without medication. If it turns out yesterday’s test results were not normal, I would just obey and take medication,” he continued.
In November 2023 he did another HbA1c test and the results dropped to 5.5 or in the normal category. He will still wait another three months for the next test and hopes to be in remission soon.
“Take the results of the HbA1c test and thank God the results are normal. If in 3 months it will still be normal, God willing, it will be in remission. My weight has also decreased by 12 kg from the previous 90 kg to 78 kg. So will we go back to our old lifestyle? Of course not,” he concluded.
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2023-12-01 06:31:19
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