• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

Fasting or not

  • Thread starter Thread starter Kat100
  • Start Date Start Date
K

Kat100

Guest
I know at Christmas I had fasting bloods done, including hbac1
I now have to book my next hba1c test....do you have yours done as a fasting test or not ....
Thank you in advance for sharing .....Kat
 
Your hba1c is kind of an overall blood sugar of the past three months.
I've never done a fasting one so I don't think you'd have to fast this time if the blood test is testing for that only.

Indiana x


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
You don't need to fast for HBA1C, however if they are checking your cholesterol then you do need to fast. Hope all goes well ;);)
 
Thank you for replying, the one at Christmas was for thyroid and cholestrol so it was fasting, then I just couldn't remember what happened before on the last one....I will go a head and book test, knowing I can eat breakfast......:) thank you.....Kat
 
Hi. My most recent annual blood test was non-fasting. The HBa1C has always been non-fasting but I assumed there would be no cholesterol check but my DN showed me the readings. They are not as reliable as the fasting ones but still useable. It looks like fasting blood tests have little value and cause a morning peak at the phlebotomist.
 
Kat100 said:
I know at Christmas I had fasting bloods done, including hbac1
I now have to book my next hba1c test....do you have yours done as a fasting test or not ....
Thank you in advance for sharing .....Kat
Click to expand...

Hello,
Fasting once in week is good for health and it accelerate the metabolism positively. But some people are doing fasting for sake of their rituals and this is wrong thing i must tell....
So my suggestion is to not do fasting....i never did yet
 
sagarg said:
Hello,
Fasting once in week is good for health and it accelerate the metabolism positively. But some people are doing fasting for sake of their rituals and this is wrong thing i must tell....
So my suggestion is to not do fasting....i never did yet
Click to expand...

In the context of Kat's question, "fasting" means not eating after 10pm because it is required for certain blood tests in the morning.
 
The minimum fasting time for for a full lipid breakdown of cholesterol is 10 hours I was told, some say 12 but my surgery say 10 is sufficient.
 
why not ask them to do cholesterol at the same time? i always do, seeing as I'm going to the trouble of getting bloods done anyway i figure they may as well take some more blood and give me some more info, easy enough to convince them to add the test in my experience
 
Another thing to add,if you are having a full lipid breakdown as part of your tests it's wise to not drink alcohol the day before the test(If applicable to you) as well as apparently it can give you a falsely high triglyceride result
 
Back
Top