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    Hb1ac always 90+

    Hi, wife has Diabetes since 2017. She had pancreatitis in childhood and we were told her diabetes is a result of that as opposed to unhealthy diet etc. she was out in insulin a year ago and is currently on 26units a day. she has a BMI of 26 and is active otherwise but every time we go for hb1ac...
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    High Hb1ac but normal fasting

    Hi , My wife is T1 without taking any insulin. Her Hb1ac came back as 83 and 88 over the last 6/7 months. Her fastings (she does occasionally) come normal I.e below 7 in the morning. She has no problems as such but we are anxious that with consistent high Hb1ac something might be missing? She is...
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    Which Type are we - 1 or 2 or 3c

    I have tried finding the answer to this question for quite sometime now but still not 100% of the answer. This is for My wife who is 35 ( Asian) with normal BMI. Here is our journey so far: Age 10 - Acute Pancreatitis Surgery performed and a "duct" created . Apparently no harm caused to the...
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    CPeptide Readings

    so we were told to go for c peptide test as that is used to differentiate between Type 1 and Type 2. Our readings are Insulin - 69 pmol/L C Peptide - 699 pmol/L We have no idea what the Normal readings should be but these are low as suggested by our nurse and she in turn checked with a...
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    Eating low carbs but High readings

    hi, we have been eating quite low carbs 30-40g / day) which seems to be largely working for us however sometimes we get a higher reading with no obvious reason. Today we had two eggs for lunch and tested 2 hours later which came out to be 9.1 which is higher than what we usually get? Any ideas...
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    Insulin levels And C Peptide

    hi, so we were told to go for c peptide test as that is used to differentiate between Type 1 and Type 2. Our readings are Insulin - 69 pmol/L C Peptide - 699 pmol/L We have no idea what the Normal readings should Ben but these are low as suggested by our nurse and she in turn checked with a...
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    Normal Fasting but High Post meal readings

    Hi, My wife has recently been diagnosed and we are slightly confused with her readings which we are taking at home using finger prick tests. History - her Hb1ac was quite high in Nov and since then it has come down in Jan . we are working towards lowering it further. She had fasting readings of...
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