If the hba1c from your arm said prediabetic then you’re prediabetic. MySugr is only estimating based on the fingerpricks you put in, so it will be affected by when you test, it’s not seeing the full picture.
I also am now using libre2 and it says my blood glucose is averaging 5.5. I am about 4.5 pre food and 6.6 after.
I am now wearing a libre 2 and testing every hr or 2, averaging 5.5 over 24 hrs.
Neither libre2 or a fingerprick meter can be used for diagnosis of diabetes. They’re useful tools for managing diabetes, but the blood test from your arm is the only one used for diagnosis. That means you do have prediabetes, regardless of what libre or MySugr say now you’ve made changes to improve your diet.
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So if my Hb1ac says 33 but my fasting bloods are 5.8 - 6, then I am not prediabetic? I was just asking which test takes precedence.
If the next hba1c from your arm says 33 then you’re still a prediabetic, you’re just managing well with diet. Your next hba1c won’t exactly match MySugr though as it’s only an estimate.
I actually haven’t made changes to improve my diet other than cutting out 30 gms of banana I was having for breakfast.
So you cannot reverse prediabetes, is that what you are saying?
Why waste money testing if you’re not making any improvements based on the results? Might as well save the money and see what the next a1c is after cutting out the banana.
33 is a MySugr estimate. Their actual a1c from their arm is 44 and so they’ve already been diagnosed as prediabetic.
Yes, if you’ve been diagnosed with prediabetes and improve it with diet changes, then you are still a prediabetic even if your a1c drops because as soon as you went back to previous eating your a1c would go up again.
I am wearing a libre 2 now so testing all the time. 4.5 approx pre food 6.5 post and about 5.8 - 6 fasting. Average 5.5 over 24 hrs.
Thanks.
Because without testing I would never have known it was the banana. Plus I am also trying to decide whether or not to ask for a repeat test based on my libre 2 results, though I think my drs surgery will only do it once a year. I will probably wait until three months have passed since my last test. One of the reasons I was asking was I have just read a couple of research papers that are suggesting that fasting bloods are a better indication of prediabetes and diabetes than the HbA1c test, if that is the general viewpoint then I will not achieve remission as long as my fasting levels remain high, and that level does not appear to be diet related, but more affected by insulin resistance.
