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HBA1C & FBG Who controls who ?

Any measurements are better
Or Any measurement is reliable After 4 or 5 or 6 or 8 hours ?
I means FBG
 
My fasting readings have sometimes been over 6 recently but my HbA1c is 36 which I'm happy with. HbA1c is an average. Yesterday I was 4.0 before evening meal and I'm often down to low 5's by 2 hours after a meal. We are all so different and both measurements are useful. I would love to try a freestyle libre but don't feel I can justify the cost.
 
Hiitsme said:
My fasting readings have sometimes been over 6 recently but my HbA1c is 36 which I'm happy with. HbA1c is an average. Yesterday I was 4.0 before evening meal and I'm often down to low 5's by 2 hours after a meal. We are all so different and both measurements are useful. I would love to try a freestyle libre but don't feel I can justify the cost.
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I think Freestyle liber not possible for poor unfortunately
 
HbA1c (glycated haemoglobin 1c component) shows blood glucose control over 3 months.

FBG (Fasting Blood Glucose) is usually the value on waking up before eating breakfast.

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Recently (past 4 months or so) my FBS has been pretty consistently in the low-to-mid 4s, so I was rather taken aback when my latest A1c came back as 5.8, higher than when I was battling to keep my FBS in the low 5s. The few post-prandial tests I did were lower than before as well, so I thought maybe a year-and-a-half of moderate low carbing had reversed my "pre-diabetic" insulin resistance. So I relaxed about carbs and probably did way too much between-meal snacking. I learned my lesson that for me, comfortably low FBS abd even reasonable post-prandial BS levels can be outweighed - and an overall higher average created - by not allowing BS to fall enough between meals, even without noticable spikes. Live and learn!

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