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<blockquote data-quote="Glink" data-source="post: 1555285" data-attributes="member: 254742"><p>I understand the hba1c being different from a given blood glucose test (and yes 5.3 is fantastic and I don't want to look that gift horse too far in the mouth!*), but I'm wondering more about my metres reading so far off of the FBG from the lab, which has never happened before. At home my FBG readings have been hovering around 7 at 7am lately, but 5.5 (albeit at 8:40am) is downright normal! I don't really know how to interpret that unless I just chuck my home metres all together. Maybe I'll take a vacation from testing for the next 3 months (without radical diet changes, but trying not to fret too much) and see how that goes. If the margin of error on my metre is that large that it spans the range from normal all the way through prediabetes into diabetic #s (e.g., FBG of 5.5 to 7) then testing seems of little use anyway. </p><p></p><p>*Someday when the Libre is available here in Canada I may invest in that to see a couple weeks' round-the-clock readings to better understand what wonky thing I've got going on, but for now I'll just take the surprisingly good HbA1c--I've always read lower on that test than would be expected by my other metrics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glink, post: 1555285, member: 254742"] I understand the hba1c being different from a given blood glucose test (and yes 5.3 is fantastic and I don't want to look that gift horse too far in the mouth!*), but I'm wondering more about my metres reading so far off of the FBG from the lab, which has never happened before. At home my FBG readings have been hovering around 7 at 7am lately, but 5.5 (albeit at 8:40am) is downright normal! I don't really know how to interpret that unless I just chuck my home metres all together. Maybe I'll take a vacation from testing for the next 3 months (without radical diet changes, but trying not to fret too much) and see how that goes. If the margin of error on my metre is that large that it spans the range from normal all the way through prediabetes into diabetic #s (e.g., FBG of 5.5 to 7) then testing seems of little use anyway. *Someday when the Libre is available here in Canada I may invest in that to see a couple weeks' round-the-clock readings to better understand what wonky thing I've got going on, but for now I'll just take the surprisingly good HbA1c--I've always read lower on that test than would be expected by my other metrics. [/QUOTE]
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