I have my next check up tomorrow and I have been looking at the letter he sent me following my last consultion on January where he says that my previous HBa1C results are now consistently in the diabetes range. However, in the same letter where he quotes all the choelsterol figures, my HBA1C was 34mmol/mol which to me is a normal reading. Am I right?
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If your previous couple of HbA1cs were in a similar range, I would think that's more likely to be a typo. 32mmol/mol shows a decent clearance below even pre-diabetes at 42.
I always check my medical records after a consultation, and consultant letters when they arrive. I had an incidence where the consultant letter post-surgery confirmed the histological diagnosis of my condition (I had already seen the path lab), but my GP transcribed it differently, with a materially very different meaning.
It took a couple of "conversations" to have that changed. The Practice Manager couldn't understand why I could be bothered by having my notes read carcinoma when in fact the condition was fibromatosis, on the basis it had been removed, and there were some other freehand notes not visible to me.
Can you imagine how any random medical reports would have gone, for say insurances?
Oh well. All sorted now.
Mystery solved. I saw my consultant today and he said he had wondered if I had noticed it! It was a typo, should have been 54!. I have another HBA1C test on 30th April two months after starting Metformin so will hope that is lower. On the plus side, although I won't have all the lipid figures till he sends me the letter, my cholesterol is now down to 3.0 against 5.0 in January. Now to get the diabetes under control.
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