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So my readings have been going fairly well. My fasting morning glucose (IMPORTANT: able to record at 10am, so not sure if Dawn effect messes with it) is between 4.8 and 5.6 on average, and this was confirmed by a veinous blood test at 5.2 MMOL. (also at 10am) However my post meal sugar is...

In my local situation, only nuffield could do Hba1c. Unfortunately I have an awful relationship with my GP, and no way to change them without paying even more through the nose at nuffield. A pharmacist was actually the first to teach me about how my ongoing symptoms could be diabetic in nature...

I would need to discuss it with my GP first, which unfortunately leaves me a bit stuck. I need to get good evidence of my glucose while only permitted to get finger readings. :(

Yes, I have Raynauds so I have a lot of trouble drawing even a single drop of blood.

At my local nuffield hospital, I had a blood test where blood was drawn from my left mid arm. This was to give me a comparison value to measure my blood glucose against. At home, especially after warming up my hands to the point of them turning red, my fasting glucose is considerably higher...

2 mmol difference from the last batch. They're identical strips for an identical device but with different readings in the same circumstances.

Heya, I just bought a new batch of test strips for my Accu Chek Performa Nano but they're giving different results from the others which seems suspicious. I still have the control solution from my old Glucorx Nexus monitor - I discarded the monitor due to how inaccurate it turned out to be...

Thank you for the reply. What concerns me with the discrepancies is how one minute I can be within normal range, and the next, with virtually no difference, I can be in the diabetic range. It makes it hard to tell which reading is the truth.

I hope everyone can help, as this is the latest in a series of attempts to try and find the cause of long term chest and sleep problems in my body. - I used a GlucoRx Nexus meter until I saw it had poor reviews, so I switched to a Accu Chek Performa Nano. Suddenly my blood glucose readings...