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Fasting blood test

billybadger

billybadger

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My GP's surgery have asked me to attend a monitoring appointment with the nurse and to have a fasting (12 hours) blood test prior to this appointment.

Obviously I won't be using any bolus Novorapid doses as I won't be eating, but does anybody know if I should also not take my basal Levemir during the fasting period?
 
Take basal as normal, the fasting test will be to check your lipids (cholesterol check).
 
billybadger said:
My GP's surgery have asked me to attend a monitoring appointment with the nurse and to have a fasting (12 hours) blood test prior to this appointment.

Obviously I won't be using any bolus Novorapid doses as I won't be eating, but does anybody know if I should also not take my basal Levemir during the fasting period?
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Take basal/background, if not say hello to ketones lol! Best of luck!!
 
I was asked to go in for a blood test a while back and told it was fasting. So I did as told but the nurse couldn't understand why Id been asked to fast, so I reckon it was a mistake- you don't need to fast for hba1c or cholesterol. Always worth checking I guess.


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There are two tests for Cholesterol one is fasting and one is not.
The fasting one is more accurate and so preferred by GPs.
 
Ruth0212 said:
I was asked to go in for a blood test a while back and told it was fasting. So I did as told but the nurse couldn't understand why Id been asked to fast, so I reckon it was a mistake- you don't need to fast for hba1c or cholesterol. Always worth checking I guess.
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If it's just to get a the Total Cholesterol Figure then you don't need to fast, however if they are doing a full lipid breakdown of your cholesterol then you must fast for 10-12 hours.
 
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