Bluetit1802
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- Type of diabetes
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- Diet only
Arguably I am no longer "stabilised". For about a year I was stable at around 30 or 31, but now I've jumped to 37 over a six-month period. It's a perfectly acceptable level but there's no way to tell whether the increase has reached a plateau, or whether it will just go on increasing. It went up 6 units in six months, if that happens in the next six months I'll be at 43 ... and a year from now at 49.....
Some of this increase COULD be down to your new UK lab having different types of machines that measure the HbA1c. Have you considered this? They do vary, and I know this for certain. I personally had an HbA1c measured at my normal lab which I disputed with my GP as it was nowhere near what my other data was telling me (including a home A1cNow test). She contacted the biochemist consultant at the lab who recommended my next lot of bloods were sent to a different lab at Salford Royal Hospital as they use different machinery. This was all arranged straight away. I had one vial of blood drawn, which was tested first at the usual lab then sent to Salford for testing. This same sample of blood produced two HbA1cs that were 4 points different.