Complete with sand blasted face?Wow, it was great on the beach this morning. Sand blowing everywhere. It looked like I was on the surface of mars. !!!
88 minutes exercise, sorted. Hard work it was too. Back home now with a cup of tea.
HbA1c gives an approximate three month average, but it is weighted towards the last 6-8 weeks, I think. (It also depends from person to person how long your red blood cells last before your body scraps and renews them) So something that happens in the last few days before a test would be unlikely to impact it, but anything going on for a couple of weeks would certainly make a difference. Pain is one of the things that can certainly cause elevated BG levels. How much difference is anybody’s guess though!Robin- This got me thinking. When my annual bloods were taken for my HbA1c reading of 59, I had just come out of A&E after a nasty fall a couple of weeks earlier. X-rays showed no bones broken but for weeks afterwards I was in such severe pain I was given morphine by the hospital and some for home use aferwards. Three months later I am still in pain if I move wrongly and just catch it at the wrong posture.
Would this have impacted the HbA1c readings negatively?
Cheers Tony.
Edit-no not the booze, I was at a kiddies playground with my little gddaughter!