Blood sugar levels ...confused!!

[grovesy]

Have you had an appointment to discuss with your surgery?

 

[pav]

My problem is with the surgery.
Practice Nurses and even the GP with a special interest in Diabetes all seem unable to answer my questions.
(Then the first blood test was non fasting so plainly the result will have been skewed.)
Just get a pat on the hand ,, "you are doing well , keep up the good work"
I would rather understand !

Unfortunately your not alone with this situation, around me there is def a lack of understanding and any one capable of thinking we are individuals and needed to be treated as such. They think because we have the same illness it every one responds the same way to it

 

[trophywench]

So this was an HbA1c test, or a fingerprick test, or were they sending off a vial of blood merely to get a BG result, ie the same result they could have done themselves with a fingerprick, or what was it? I don't understand why you'd want it to be 'fasting' for any of those?

It can't possibly by any stretch of the imagination, affect your HbA1c whether it's fasting or after you'd just eaten half a ton of doughnuts. This test doesn't measure your BG right now, it measures how much glucose has stuck to your red blood cells over the last 10-12 weeks - this can't be affected by your BG right this minute - only what is has been over the past couple of months.

The ONLY blood test you're ever likely to have in companionship with diabetes would be a fasting Lipids tests, so they can measure the HDL and the Trigs properly. They never measure the LDL anyway, that's always calculated from the HDL and Trigs figures, so they need to be correctly measured so all the numbers can be relied on.

 

[Ditto]

Welcome to the forum Allison. I shan't add anything else, I'm still learning.

 

[SB2015]

So what questions do you have. Perhaps people on here can help you.

 

[Ralph-YK]

I've never had targets. A GP at my old practice & Practice Nurse straight out said I didn't need any. The nurse get anoyed when I tried to get her to do an Action Plan and targets.
I'm on metformin only.

 

[Maz2]

Is there any possibility that the initial diagnosis could have been wrong, and if so where does that leave me ?

Hi Rosaline. it won't be wrong. 53 is diabetic. My Father-in-Law's next door neighbour was diabetic, she has lost about 2 stone in weight and her tests have now gone back to normal. She asked her GP if she was now "not diabetic." He told her she could never be told "not diabetic" once she had been diabetic and they continue to check her.

I was deemed "high risk" last year and sent on a Diabetes Prevention Programme. I asked the Facilitator if they would still check me out if my hba1c should return to normal levels. She said she thought they probably would because once in "impaired glucose tolerance" they are unlikely to let it go.