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Type 2 BG converter ?

JimmyScotland

JimmyScotland

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Glasgow, Scotland
Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Tablets (oral)
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The converter on this site is confusing!! I want to know my HBATc or whatever the fek it is called but I don't know how the thing works because it uses term I do not understand like DCCT-% and IFCC-mmol/mol ? What is this stuff ???? Plain English please if you answer this make it easy to understand I'm going crazy trying to understand this converter.
 
What is hba1c's? and how can I find out what it is? I tried to use the converter on this site but it is confusing and dose not tell you how to convert BG lvl to Hba1c HELP!!!!
 
What is mg/dL ???
 
JimmyScotland said:
The converter on this site is confusing!! I want to know my HBATc or whatever the fek it is called but I don't know how the thing works because it uses term I do not understand like DCCT-% and IFCC-mmol/mol ? What is this stuff ???? Plain English please if you answer this make it easy to understand I'm going crazy trying to understand this converter.
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Hi! What is your number?
 
SWUSA_ said:
You said you are trying to use the converter- I assume you are trying to convert a blood glucose number to Hba1c number?
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Ah that number lol it was 6.7 an hour ago.
 
JimmyScotland said:
Ah that number lol it was 6.7 an hour ago.
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That's a good number. For type 2 diabetes we try to keep our fasting glucose (the number you get when you test after first waking up but before you eat any thing) between 4 and 7. Two hours after a meal it should be below 8.5. This information is in other places on this site as well.
Now for your original question-The blood glucose measure is a measure of what your blood sugar is at one point in time-right now when you take it. The Hab1c is a measure of your blood glucose over the last three months before you took the test. There is a rough correspondence but they are not the same measure. Does that answer your question?
 
HbA1c is a measure of how many of your red blood cells have sugar stuck to them and gives an idea of how your blood sugar has been overall over the last 3 months or so. Until recently DCCT was the preferred way of expressing this, but 6.7% could easily be confused with your current blood sugar level that you might find out with a personal blood glucose meter. Now there is more of a tendency to use IFCC, but both do sometimes get used.

From your HbA1c it's possible to use the converter to give you an idea of what your average blood sugar is. If your HbA1c is 6.7%, then your average blood sugar over the last 3 months was 8.1 mmol/L
 
CapnGrumpy said:
HbA1c is a measure of how many of your red blood cells have sugar stuck to them and gives an idea of how your blood sugar has been overall over the last 3 months or so. Until recently DCCT was the preferred way of expressing this, but 6.7% could easily be confused with your current blood sugar level that you might find out with a personal blood glucose meter. Now there is more of a tendency to use IFCC, but both do sometimes get used.

From your HbA1c it's possible to use the converter to give you an idea of what your average blood sugar is. If your HbA1c is 6.7%, then your average blood sugar over the last 3 months was 8.1 mmol/L
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Capn- I think he means his blood sugar level was 6.7 mmol/L about an hour ago.
 
SWUSA_ said:
Capn- I think he means his blood sugar level was 6.7 mmol/L about an hour ago.
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Ah! It doesn't work the other way round. Your HbA1c comes from having a blood test at the quack's/hospital.
 
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