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How long do HBA1C tests take to come back?

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Mrirazak

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I took the test last Thursday. I got a text on Friday saying my results are back and speak to the GP. The GP said on Saturday the partial results are back not the main diabetes one.
I know it’s the weekend in between (Saturday and Sunday just gone) when is it likely the results will be back— because I called this morning and still no results back.

do they process tests on the weekends?
 
The Hba1c tests usually come back very quickly so I would be surprised if the GP doesn't have that but it may be kidney and liver function and perhaps cholesterol which are taking longer. I normally leave a week between my blood test and seeing the consultant to give it enough time for all the results to come through and that has always worked out fine, so maybe leave it until Wed or Thurs rather than keeping ringing the surgery. I know it's not easy to be patient about these things. Are you expecting a good result? Hope so!
 
rebrascora said:
The Hba1c tests usually come back very quickly so I would be surprised if the GP doesn't have that but it may be kidney and liver function and perhaps cholesterol which are taking longer. I normally leave a week between my blood test and seeing the consultant to give it enough time for all the results to come through and that has always worked out fine, so maybe leave it until Wed or Thurs rather than keeping ringing the surgery. I know it's not easy to be patient about these things. Are you expecting a good result? Hope so!
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Hi,

so my Kidney and my Liver ones are the ones that came back (plasma levels etc) but the main diabetes one isn’t back. The reason I got the NHS text to call the GP was because the first results were abnormal which could be due to diabetes but they don’t have the full results yet.
So I was wound wrong if the labs work on the weekends (I would’ve assumed they do) but I’m hoping at some point today I find out if the results are back because my GP is expecting them by Wednesday (that’s when my next appointment is)
 
I don't think there is a fixed length of time - it varies per hospital/lab/CCG.
For example, I am advised to have my tests done 2 weeks before my diabetes check up because they can take a while to come back from the lab. And that's pre-covid!
 
Oh, I can see how that might be worrying then.
I wonder if they did C-peptide and GAD antibody tests. One of those can take up to 6 weeks to come back. I think it is the C-peptide. Since I now see from your profile that you are 20, I am guessing that you are most likely Type 1 and therefore these tests would confirm that. A high HbA1c result which is the standard test for diabetes just tells then that you are diabetic and assumed Type 2 unless further testing for C-peptide and GAD antibodies are done.
Have they started you on insulin? I hope so....

Oh and welcome to the forum since I see you are a new member.... Sorry I am not with it this morning!
 
Hi. Hopefully you will soon get all the results o& your blood tests as the not knowing is awful.
Hospital labs do work over the weekend but maybe not all the admin staff .

I too am told to have my blood test 2 weeks before my review but I can access my results online much more quickly.
 
I think it varies from place to place and time to time as my OH had some blood tests last Tues pm and the GP phoned the next evening to discuss the results.
 
In answer to your question, it depends on where you are. With my surgery, blood tests are taken in the morning at the local hospital blood clinic and the results are available on line in the afternoon.
 
We get it done while we wait at the hospital clinic, the machine literally gives the result within about 5 minutes so it can be done quickly, I guess it depends where the sample has to be sent to and what equipment they have. I doubt that any GP practices have such machines.
 
Hope your results come through quickly @Mrirazak

Like @rebrascora I generally try to give them a week, but the results are usually available in 3-4 working days where I am.
 
I had bloods taken at noon on Wednesday at my surgery and got a call from the nurse on Friday afternoon with the Hba1c results. The time to undertake analysis in the lab must be pretty quick but the time for news to filter back to you seems to vary enormously
 
Where I live the hbac01 must be done before 10am, as that's when all that day's hbac01 blood tests are collected and taken to the lab in town.

The results usually come back the same day.
 
I don't know the processes that lab tests require but do know at the same lab (ie the local Uni Hospital one) it's sometimes same day service and others, a week or more when the previous 'same old same old ' one was the same day! Depends on the level of work and staffing.

My driving instructor always used to repeat a quote he was fond of to me (and others) Patience is a virtue - find it where you can - seldom in a woman; normal in a man!' John had been married to the same lady for approx 40 years and they had 4 daughters. Good job he was a patient man, wasn't it? LOL
 
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My driving instructor always used to repeat a quote he was fond of to me (and others) Patience is a virtue - find it where you can - seldom in a woman; normal in a man!'
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The version of this I have always heard is ".....never in a man" !
 
Yes, I was about to say that your driving instructor modified it to suit his purposes @trophywench and the saying is "never a man". That said, you must need a lot of patience to be a driving instructor, so maybe he was right in his case.
 
That precisely matches my reaction, and he'd met me before anyway cos husband #1 and friends drank in his pub (well think his wife was the licensee) after badminton every week, so knew I'd recognise his tongue was so far in his cheek it's a miracle he's never choked himself !
 
I asked him the once when we were in a queue at a set of traffic lights, John, you know when you look in your rear view mirror and the car behind you is so close you can't see its front numberplate - how close, actually is it? He answered 'Too bloody close in normally moving traffic - but unavoidable really at lights etc most of the time.' That was actually more helpful than #1 who always just said the first 3 words!
 
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