how do you lose a vile of blood???

[Vix]

I have a massive fear of having my blood taken, so to muster up the courage to go and have my hba1c done is pretty big for me. But, the motivation of wanting a family has meant that at the moment I am managing to drag myself to the docs every 6 weeks for it to be taken... only to find today when I rang for the results from Friday that my thyroid, vit d and full blood count results are there but my hba1c is nowhere to be seen! How on earth do you lose a vile of blood??? So annoyed right now 😡

It's not even a one off, the last time hubby had his blood taken they got some results and then threw the rest out before testing for the main results he needed!

Not looking forward to psyching myself up for Friday and another one now

xx

 

[AJLang]

Vix I'm really sorry to hear this. Some diabetic departments can do the HBA1C with a finger prick blood test. Is there any possibility that they can do this at your hospital?

 

[delb t]

Vix what pain in the butt!!-we have our Hba1c done with a deep fingerprick-so its worth the ask

 

[Copepod]

That sounds odd, because HbA1c and FBC (Full Blood Count) both test blood collected in a bottle with EDTA.

Thyroid function tests blood from a bottle with SST II.

I'm not sure which bottle is used for testing vitamin D levels, but it could be SST II as that's used for routine biochemistry, which could cover vitamins.

So, it doesn't sound like a whole bottle of blood was lost, but perhaps it wasn't full or perhaps a pipetted portion was lost or test for HbA1c was lost.

Along with your hubby's experience, it sounds like biochemistty lab isn't working properly. Not that knowing that helps you if you're the one who has to go for an extra blood test, especially when you hate having blood taken.

Worth considering rasing issue with PALS, as you can't be the only person affected by the errors.