Hello from Greg75 and a bit of advice please...

[greg75]

Hi everyone, my name is Greg. I've been recently diagnosed with TYPE 2 but am concerned that my HBA1C is 76mmol/mol. Is this dangerously high as I thought normal count was in mid 40's.

 

[Kaylz]

As a Type 2 diabetic it will be high, you are only diagnosed with diabetes if you are over 48 I believe, what you've got to do is try and lower it to a good level, have you been put on any medication or are they wanting you to try diet and exercise alone first?
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[TheClockworkDodo]

Hi Greg and welcome to the forum 🙂

76 is certainly a lot higher than it should be - as Kaylz says it should ideally be under 48 - but to put that in perspective, my HbA1c was about 110 when I was diagnosed, and there are people here who had an HbA1c of around 150 at diagnosis, so I wouldn't call 76 dangerously high in the short term, so long as you can get it lower fairly soon.

Have a look at this chart:



and you'll see that 76 is in the amber warning area - not good but not really scarily high. You need to get it down into the green area if you want to avoid future complications though.

There is a lot of info. on this forum which should help you work out how to do this - you could start with some of the links on this page: https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/useful-links-for-people-new-to-diabetes.10406/

 

[greg75]

Diet and exercise first Kaylz, thanks Juliet X

 

[Kaylz]

Have they given you much advice on the diet side of things? Quite often they don't and people can still be eating what's most likely to affect them

So did they mention cutting down on the carbohydrates in your diet?
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