Hello!

[Drummer]

I only had one Hba1c test to be diagnosed as 'a very bad diabetic', so perhaps it is just how surgeries want to count their categories. With a Hba1c of 54, that is diabetes, though not in the high ranges I had reached. With a low carb diet you could easily get back to normal in a few weeks - with any luck that is. I am a really ordinary type two, lower carbs lower Hba1c, use a meter and get down to normal, job done.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

With a Hba1c of 54, that is diabetes, though not in the high ranges I had reached.

Which might be it. 54 is more plausibly a one-off odd result (maybe anaemia or something) than something much higher.

 

[greebstreebling]

Which might be it. 54 is more plausibly a one-off odd result (maybe anaemia or something) than something much higher.

I also had two fasting blood tests done too. I do have slight anaemia but in a way it’s academic. I’m just wondering why the GP said I had it whilst the pharmacist said they couldn’t diagnose it that way. And wondered what everyone else’s experience was

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I also had two fasting blood tests done too. I do have slight anaemia but in a way it’s academic. I’m just wondering why the GP said I had it whilst the pharmacist said they couldn’t diagnose it that way. And wondered what everyone else’s experience was

Welcome to the forum @greebstreebling (I am sure I recognise that from somewhere, but my inner nerd if refusing to search the internet until my brain has had more of a chance to dredge up the reference, if indeed there is one!)

Glad you’ve had some helpful advice and suggestions so far 🙂

Well your anaemia may well not be academic, and could be the reason for the caution in diagnosing you. The HbA1c test, on which most diagnoses are made these days involves the proportion of red blood cells that have been affected by glucose in the blood stream - and anaemia reduces the number of red blood cells, so is known to affect the accuracy of the HbA1c. 🙂