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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
Okay so from my data below you will see I was diagnosed type 2 circa 6 years ago, my numbers have bumped along in the 50's but in Jan this year they went up to 73.
I have just had my latest HBA1C and it is down to 48 and whilst on the face of it that is a very good reduction, I was expecting 38 to 40.
Over the last 8 months I have tested over 650 times! and kept extensive records and my averages were 38. My nexus machine is showing a 90 day average of 6.2 which equates to 37 which corroborates my own records.
I had a worry about my DP which has always been a problem and can be 8.x most days. However, that was included in my calculations and Nexus average. I do understand that my 3 or sometimes 4 readings a day are "snapshots" and that had worried me.
As regards food, I never have breakfast, I have salad for lunch and my main meal would be less than 50g of carbs and taken at circa 7PM.
My readings would be in the following range with the sometimes rogue reading popping up.
Early morning would be 8.x taken at 0730
Lunch reading would be 6.x taken at 1300 with no testing after.
Evening would be 4.x/5 taken at 1900 and 2 hours later would be 5.x/6.
So basically I am having one meal a day that includes carbs and appear to tolerating it exceptionally well. But my HBA1C of 48 equates to an overall average of 7.8 and this confuses me a lot because that is not what my machine is telling me!
Can anybody make sense of what might be happening?
I have just had my latest HBA1C and it is down to 48 and whilst on the face of it that is a very good reduction, I was expecting 38 to 40.
Over the last 8 months I have tested over 650 times! and kept extensive records and my averages were 38. My nexus machine is showing a 90 day average of 6.2 which equates to 37 which corroborates my own records.
I had a worry about my DP which has always been a problem and can be 8.x most days. However, that was included in my calculations and Nexus average. I do understand that my 3 or sometimes 4 readings a day are "snapshots" and that had worried me.
As regards food, I never have breakfast, I have salad for lunch and my main meal would be less than 50g of carbs and taken at circa 7PM.
My readings would be in the following range with the sometimes rogue reading popping up.
Early morning would be 8.x taken at 0730
Lunch reading would be 6.x taken at 1300 with no testing after.
Evening would be 4.x/5 taken at 1900 and 2 hours later would be 5.x/6.
So basically I am having one meal a day that includes carbs and appear to tolerating it exceptionally well. But my HBA1C of 48 equates to an overall average of 7.8 and this confuses me a lot because that is not what my machine is telling me!
Can anybody make sense of what might be happening?