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Me too azure, she said they'd expect it to be between 3-6 I said yes if it was fasting but I ate, she said exactly your breakfast has caused it! The doctor is probably just being thorough which is a good thing I was just getting stressed as I couldn't understand why they were calling me back...

So managed to speak to someone sensible at the doctors surgery. I had a random blood sugar test which came out at 6.1 probably due to eating before I took the test - I think I ate something about 1 - 1.5 hours before, I certainly could of eaten late the night before as well, defo in the last...

Maybe it was an A1C but if they show weeks worth of averages why bother doing a one off fasting test? Or repeating the test? I'm gonna get onto them tomorrow, when I solve the mystery I'll let you know! Thanks for the help.

yes it looks like it, do doctors generally run HBA1C on a general screen? I have no diabetes symptoms so it's not like I was being tested specifically if you see what I mean.

I'm thinking the same. I might ring again and see if a doctor will ring me back the receptionist wasn't happy about me asking questions.

Thanks for the reply, when I got the letter about going for a fasting test I looked online and saw the 11 cut off so I rang the doctors and asked what test they had taken and if it was a HBA1C test, she looked it up and said no it's a 'plasma glucose test' she read it from the screen which is...

Hi, I saw my GP last week about an issue with an irregular heartbeat. He did an ecg and reassured me all was well. He said he'd like to run a thyroid test just in case. Turns out he did a sweep of loads of blood tests and one of them has flagged up what was described initially as a 'sugar...