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> Blimey you lot are very good. I change mine every 10. Not every 10 tests, every 10 years. LOL. Love it. Thanks for the replies. Most reassuring. :-) Kind regards, Rosalind Joke: My doctor told me to avoid stress - so I stopped opening his bills and answering his phone calls.

Phew, that's a relief. - Thank you for your help. Much appreciated. :-)

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Hi I use an Accu-chek Performa meter, & I've only just realised that the manufacturer recommends a fresh lancet per test. (I know, I know... I must be a slow learner... Sigh.) I have twisted the lancet thing (to get a new lancet) only about once every couple of weeks (or more). (I'm testing...

Hi Sorry to hear that you're having troubles. {hugs} 2 things: 1. I'm also going thru the hassle of the medico blaming -other- health issues on past high sugar levels ... so I'm waiting until 3mths is up so that my new HbA1C test will show my improved levels - and then maybe, they'll start...

Hi @sparrow61 That sounds like me too (but I'm getting a little better I think, since I stopped work earlier this month). Another reason that I was anxious is that if someone did call an ambulance, I was sure that I'd then have to (again) go through the whole "Oh, your HbA1C is too high, you...

Hi I'm taking Metformin & now eating a low carb diet. (Carbs spike my bl sugar levels badly.) From http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-and-ketones.html : "ketones are produced when the body burns fat. Therefore people that are losing a significant amount of weight may experience higher than...

Pre-eclampsia may be caused by eating insufficient protein... Kind regards, Rosalind ~ Experience: That marvelous thing that allows you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.

Thank you everybody for your replies. Much appreciated. I've realised that I was expecting an exact number (eg 2 months, 17 days & 4 hours), which was unrealistic to expect for any medical issue. LOL

Thank you. Your post was very interesting. Kind regards, Rosalind PS I disagree with the person who concluded that you think "too much". (Einstein obviously thought that long periods of thinking is important: "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false...

Yup... thanks, I do understand averages. :-) I was just wondering whether this blood test is (actually) an average of 3 months, or of a shorter period, say of 2.5 months? ... Thus, my question relates to Biochemistry rather than Maths. :-) Thanks. :-)

Hi How long does it take for the HbA1C blood test to register improved levels, please? (Does it take a full 3 mths or is it less?) My sugar levels were very high :-( :-( ... but have been pretty good since I started on Metformin, late June. (I take readings several times a day, using an...

Hi I've sometimes just turned up at the practice & asked a nurse/receptionist to print off my blood test result (so I can know for myself whether the result is good or bad). I've had the occasional nurse refuse, claiming that only a Dr can "interpret the results". (Yeah right. Like I'm an idiot...

Totally agree. I feel that it is just one more way that "They" try to control not just our sugar levels - but our life. (Whereas if we have all the info, we can control our own diabetes ... & they're out of a job.)

Totally agree. I feel that it is just one more way that "They" try to control not just our sugar levels - but our life. - For Pete's sake it is -our- health, so They shouldn't keep that info from us. (I have had several practice nurses who wouldn't give me my blood test results. Supposedly, only...

Wow. similar here, ie "I have had bouts of feeling ill, sometimes like I am going to pass out, clammy, sweaty and weak." (I had my gall bladder out in 1991, & since then 2 hernia repair jobs from that umbilical scar) Am having almost-fainting spells as well as other times of low body temp (was...