It tells you your fasting blood sugar level. It’s used to diagnose diabetes.
I see. I had the HbA1c at the end of February.And it's not very useful (just my opinion). I would have thought an hba1c or a glucose tolerance test would be far more informative.
If it's the one I am thinking of for a fasting glucose test, they take a sample of blood from your arm. Then they get you to glug a small bottle of glucose drink down. After a period of time another blood draw is done, then after another hour another blood draw is done.What does this test tell us?
And it's not very useful (just my opinion). I would have thought an hba1c or a glucose tolerance test would be far more informative.
Nice one.If it's the one I am thinking of for a fasting glucose test, they take a sample of blood from your arm. Then they get you to glug a small bottle of glucose drink down. After a period of time another blood draw is done, then after another hour another blood draw is done.
I was at the pathology shop for a couple of hours every time I had them done, it's been a while now though. I get to see people getting them done when I go for blood tests, they always seat you near the toilets in the waiting room just in case you throw up..
What it is, is that they were all supposed to have been done at or around the same time. At the time I didn’t know that. Once I realised I should have had the other tests done around the same time I asked them to do those that hadn’t been done. Hence the delay.Just seen that Feb's hba1c is 36. I can't honestly see what the point of a fasting blood sugar is in that case, unless they actually mean a glucose tolerance test? Or don't believe the hba1c for some reason? Could just be surgery incompetence?
A fasting blood test is also normally done when testing for cholesterol levels in the blood, simply because cholesterol is significantly changed after a recent meal and results will be inconclusive,Just looked this up:
Fasting blood glucose level
- If your blood glucose level is 70 to 99* mg/dL (3.9 to 5.5 mmol/L). . .
- What it means: Your glucose level is within the normal range
- If your blood glucose level is 100 to 125 mg/dL (5.6 to 6.9 mmol/L). . .
- What it means: You have an impaired fasting glucose level (pre-diabetes**) . . .
- If your blood glucose level is 126 mg/dl (7.0 mmol/L ) or higher on more than one testing occasion
- What it means: You have diabetes
I haven’t ruled that out. I just put the idea on the back burner.Just think ... if you bought your own meter you could get this number every morning and check whether its up or down..
As someone who is pre-diabetic at worse you seem to be getting a lot more attention and testing than some on here who have high HbA1c and are definitely diabetic. Is there some special reason why you are getting this ideal but unusual treatment?I see. I had the HbA1c at the end of February.
I haven’t ruled that out. I just put the idea on the back burner.
So, my medical record has me as prediabetic, my FBG has me in the prediabetic range. My HbA1c has me in the normal range. So reading between the lines I am still Prediabetic.
That is a very good question. And the answer is not straight forward. This might help explain:As someone who is pre-diabetic at worse you seem to be getting a lot more attention and testing than some on here who have high HbA1c and are definitely diabetic. Is there some special reason why you are getting this ideal but unusual treatment?