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Test results...

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indio02

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Type 2
Had my diabetes check-up on Friday with the attendant blood test. Noticed this afternoon that the test results had been uploaded to the NHS app.
Yet again they seem to have picked a random selection of results ie. Cholesterol & Liver function etc to upload but not the Hba1c. Looking at my previous results they did the Hba1c but not Cholesterol.
What am I missing?

Bit of a pain and waste of there and my time to call the surgery to find out..... grrrrrr
 
indio02 said:
What am I missing?
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A bit of patience.

It’s a bank holiday Monday, it’s not even been one working day since you had your tests so it’s not surprising that they haven’t yet finished processing them and approving the results to be shown on the nhs app. There’s no need at all for you to waste anyone’s time by calling, give it a week or two for them to be processed and approved first.
 
My HbA1c took a couple of days to come back and appear on the app (all of the other test results were there) - your GP has to see it and verify the information before the result is uploaded - it should be on there by the end of the week is my guess, given the bank holiday weekend
 
When I have my bloods done, the nurse takes 2-3 different test tubes full, because each tube has to have a different process/preparation for testing. Some need spinning in a centrifuge, and it depends on how many other test tubes they have from other patients. Then, they go to different parts of the hospital lab, and workloads may differ, resulting in results coming back at different times. Then they have to be checked by a GP at the surgery before they’re put up on line for me to see, and depending on when they come back, they may miss the slot that the GP had allocated for checking results that day.
Test results used to take a week, minimum to come back when I was first diagnosed, the fact that they are sometimes back and up on my NHS App within a couple of days now never ceases to amaze me.
 
Lucyr said:
A bit of patience.

It’s a bank holiday Monday, it’s not even been one working day since you had your tests so it’s not surprising that they haven’t yet finished processing them and approving the results to be shown on the nhs app. There’s no need at all for you to waste anyone’s time by calling, give it a week or two for them to be processed and approved first.
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The point I wanted to make was that from what I've seen whatever is uploaded first is all that's uploaded.
My HbA1c was uploaded last time but wasn't the time previous to that and never has been. I only found out because I spoke to the surgery. What's uploaded seems to be completely random. I got Triglycerides this time but not last time.

Apologies the blood test was Thursday not Friday but still to get any results over a bank holiday weekend is impressive.
 
I had Bloods done on Wednesday and the results appeared over a couple of days. At the beginning of the year my HBA1C took nearly a week, everything else appeared within a couple of days. Different blood samples go to different departments within the Laboratory.
 
If you normally wait a little while before looking at the test results, you may not realise that they are posted in different segments and, as the other posts have said, this is because they are posted at different times when the results come back and are reviewed. It's brilliant that we can now access things online but it does take time to translate from the language and procedures of the NHS to English and normal life.
 
JimG said:
it does take time to translate from the language and procedures of the NHS to English and normal life.
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When a friend showed me his results recently, I realised how the different regions present the data very differently.
I just get a lot of badly formatted text. It shows the upper and/or lower limits of acceptability, my result and sometimes a generic comment.
My friend was showing me his well formatted data with graphs over time - I have to create these myself.
The generic comment often amuses me - as a person who was diagnosed with Type 1 (an incurable condition) for more than 20 years, I am told my HBa1c indicates I am "at risk of diabetes".
 
helli said:
The generic comment often amuses me - as a person who was diagnosed with Type 1 (an incurable condition) for more than 20 years, I am told my HBa1c indicates I am "at risk of diabetes".
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I get inwardly cross with my HbA1c comment, because it’s always 48 ish, and I’m always congratulated on it by whichever HCP I’m seeing, yet the comment on the App says 'Abnormal' in bold red letters.
I once felt quite cross with the receptionist, in the days before we had the online facility, I had to ask for my HbA1c at the counter, and she looked at me down her nose, like I was a total failure, and said loudly so everyone could hear, ‘It’s ABNORMAL!' I just gave her a stony stare, and said, I need the actual figure, please!
 
helli said:
When a friend showed me his results recently, I realised how the different regions present the data very differently.
I just get a lot of badly formatted text. It shows the upper and/or lower limits of acceptability, my result and sometimes a generic comment.
My friend was showing me his well formatted data with graphs over time - I have to create these myself.
The generic comment often amuses me - as a person who was diagnosed with Type 1 (an incurable condition) for more than 20 years, I am told my HBa1c indicates I am "at risk of diabetes".
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I get “Abnormal, but expected”. Makes me feel special!
 
So many times the medics use a phrase that to them is just standard but to us lesser mortals seems bizarre and they fall into the trap of forgetting that important fact. I think that there is a tendency for all professionals to sometimes forget that they know the specialised language that they use all day but their customers/clients/patients encounter the language only infrequently. I would like to say that, before I retired I never did that. I would like to say that but I'm sure that I did fall into the trap.

For the various blood tests abnormal is actually normal since it simply shows what I already know, I have diabetes.
 
Robin said:
I get inwardly cross with my HbA1c comment, because it’s always 48 ish, and I’m always congratulated on it by whichever HCP I’m seeing, yet the comment on the App says 'Abnormal' in bold red letters.
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Even though it is good for a diabetic, the facts are it is outside the normal range so it is abnormal. Doesn’t matter that it’s normal for a diabetic it’s still high compared to the normal range. Abnormal but explained.
 
Lucyr said:
Even though it is good for a diabetic, the facts are it is outside the normal range so it is abnormal. Doesn’t matter that it’s normal for a diabetic it’s still high compared to the normal range. Abnormal but explained.
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As at this stage it’s been seen by my GP, it would be nice if there was a facility on the computer system for her to change it to 'Normal for this patient' It’s the one size fits all that annoys me. In the grand scheme of things, I can live with it.
 
Hope the rest of your results filter through eventually @indio02

‘Abnormal’ irks me a little too!
 
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