Hi Celast,
How were you diagnosed? Did you have an HbA1c at the time?
I had a look back at your posts. The HbA1c you wrote about in May, was a little while after you joined so would take into account any changes that you had made.
There are several tests that can be used to diagnose diabetes.
- fasting test over 6.9 mmol/l,
random glucose test over 11.1mmol/ml (plus a fasting over 7mmol/l check),
level of greater than 11.1 mmol/ml at 2 hours on a glucose tolerance test.
HbA1c greater than 6.4% ( over 47 mmol/mol)
If there are no other symptoms then they should do another check but it is possible to make a diagnosis on just one test if the person is losing weight/is urinating or drinking a lot etc
It is possible to have an HbA1c below 6.5% yet still have fasting levels or levels on the other'tests' that are high enough to diagnose diabetes.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/Our ... diabetes_/
If you had an HbA1c of 42-47 mmol/mol (6.0 – 6.4%) when first 'diagnosed' and there were no other symptoms then that would normally be considered a high diabetes risk (pre diabetes in the US) rather than a diabetes
Obviously I have no idea about your friend, maybe it was a fasting of 7.5mmol/l , rather than an HbA1c of 7.5% and the doctor will do another later.
Ultimately though there isn't really any difference between a person who has a level just one side or just the other of a cut off point which has to be placed somewhere. The treatment for both conditions is identical.