If you want to stay in the 5% HBa1c club the magic numbers are 1 hour after a meal 7.7 2 hours 6.6 fasting 6.1
Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk
None of the health professionals I see now use the old system. Last time I asked what it was in real money, I was told "this is real money, get used to it". He also said to remember that "55 (or under) to stay alive" is good idea.
Another interesting thing he told me was about the feeling that the levels are too low. For years, if I've felt the shakes, I've always looked for a biscuit or jelly baby. He told me that, if I am in my normal routine, feeling the shakes is my body trying to trick me into giving it sugar. Ignore it, or have a glass of water. The body doesn't need any more sugar. Sit it out. So, far, it's working.
No,HbA1c is now reported in millimoles (mmol) under IFCC (International Federation of Clinical Chemists) guidelines to bring us into line with the rest of the world (except the US) and not the old DCCT which reported in %. There is a converter on www.diabetes.co.uk that you can use to convert if you wish.What do you mean by the first paragraph 55 to stay alive do you mean 5.5
Also it depends when you take your readings
If you are feeling shaky the best I would have though would be to take a reading to confirm if you are having a hypo ?
Archie
No,HbA1c is now reported in millimoles (mmol) under IFCC (International Federation of Clinical Chemists) guidelines to bring us into line with the rest of the world (except the US) and not the old DCCT which reported in %. There is a converter on www.diabetes.co.uk that you can use to convert if you wish.
Eg. HbA1c 5% will be 31 mmol.
7% will be 53 mmol which is what you want to be less than if you want to keep your Doc happy.
Hba1c is a measure of what your blood glucose level has been over the last three months. So if you are reading less than 53 then your glucose control has been very good.
New values are here
I don't always need to test. if I start feeling the shakes, normally a tingling feeling in my upper arms, I think back over the last couple of hours. If everything has been normal routine, I sit it out for five minutes. If I feel worse, even after a drink, or a snack, then something is wrong and I check. Sometimes its needed, but if the routine and food intake are normal, then the levels will not get dangerously low, and it is just my brain craving sugar - a false alarm. I'm not beholden to my meter, I sometimes go a month without using it. I'm pretty good at working it out by feel.
Three times in the last month, I've had the tingle. The first time, I took a couple of Haribo. The other two, a glass of water. The Haribo moment went on longer than the water moments.
I’m with you on that. I take levothyroxin and have found it was quite tricky to get the right dose but once steady I started to lose weight after gym sessions but not as much as others around me.I have hypothyroidism (rare in blokes 1:10,000) so have blood tests every 6 months, I only found out after I couldn't recover from gym sessions and couldn't lose weight.
A blip like that is no big deal. If you are in the range 42 - 46 mmol for HbA1c it means your blood glucose is controlled very well. Ps your glucose has always been reported in mmol/L. It's just the HbA1c units that have changed.Recently had my HbA1c and it came in at 57. My doc is happy with that because at the time I was recovering from flu, was mildly anaemic, had a chest infection for which I was taking anti-biotics and undergoing physio for a back injury..... and it was only 4 weeks after Christmas!! All my previous tests have been in the 42 - 46 range, so once I get back to regular gym sessions and the Christmas spike is out of the way I hope to be back in the correct window. At the moment, I test three times a week after any meal and my blood sugar levels are in single (old units) figures.
I have been up and down now on a 100, still have bad days thoughI’m with you on that. I take levothyroxin and have found it was quite tricky to get the right dose but once steady I started to lose weight after gym sessions but not as much as others around me.