Type 2 Hba1C v BG

luna50 said:

I am sorry if some one find that my text have to much heavy medical terminology.
I do not thing such. This subject can't be explain more simplified, without to lose a meaning.
The subject is much more complicated, but I can not do that better. It is not copy/paste, it is my own knowledge about the HBA1c , collected from different text's about that.
If someone has a questions about the part's of the text, then I will be pleased to answer.
Moreover I do not understand the critic on me because I have used time to explain what HBA1c is.
Many of you write links to the internet places with a very heavy medical terminology. What is the difference?
Is that something to do with " the who-do-you-think-you-are attitude" ???

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The problem is that very few that use this forum have had any medical training, or even scientific experience. But there is much information that gets posted on this forum, some valid, much of it is either wrong, incomplete, outdated, or downright bogus. So, some of us try to subject all these claims to as best a critique that we can in order to help make sure that the info presented on the forum is viable for most to make informed decisions. Sometimes we post formal trial papers that are full of medical terms. i am guilty of this - but i do not post info unless i have a reasonable idea what it is talking about so I could provide laymans interpretation of what the report is claiming, and I try to provide collaborative data if I find it to give a stronger case.

The difference in what you have been posting is that you are interpreting the information, and somehow this process is distorting the basic info due to differences in language that exists between us. What makes perfect sense to you sometimes conveys a different meaning to us. So not only do we have to translate the medical terms being used in the textbook, but we also have to work out how you view it and express it. I think we all find your posts more difficult to understand than the basic medical text you start off with.

Perhaps cut and paste would actually improve things. Most of us use cut and paste or weblinks to show the original report info, to reduce misinterpretation. Often I try to either bracket copied text << ,,,, >> or use an italic font or colour change to show it is not my words. underlined text can be mistaken for weblinks and should be avoided, as is the colour red (this forum uses red for tags) Indeed square brackets also need to be avoided since these are control markers used in the database

You get the right balance in your post Oldvatr.
I have found that even in a one to one with a foreign doctor plain English is insufficient to get one's point across. In which case the English fall back position is to speak louder!
D.

All if there are any further abusive posts by anybody there will be thread bans following. Please return to the topic of the thread and leave of the personal attacks

AndBreathe said:

Limelight, many T2s who use the forum need to test their their bloods on a daily or regular basis and some others have to do their finger prick tests due to the style of medication they are using to control their diabetes.

Most T2s who control their diabetes using diet alone find their Doctors encourage them to test themselves at home, but some of us choose to. We do that to try to learn how our bodies are coping with what we eat and drink, without waiting several weeks to find out. I look upon it as my immediate feedback from my body.

Over time, I found some foods were better for me than others and some things I just needed to avoid really.

The numbers we get from our meters are different to our HbA1c as they're measure differently, which is a real pain. This link explains the differences.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-to-blood-sugar-level-converter.html

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I found a lot of the foods that people said i would be ok with i reacted too... such as sweet potato and strawberries! Though blueberries and rasberries are fine and my alternative to potato alternative (sweet potato) is swede which my body copes with.

As to the question i think loads of people have answered really well and taught me a thing or two! But bg = blood glucos or blood sugar. We can use it to find out what our body is doing immediately and react to it! So if it is high we can exercise or adjust our diet, if it is low we can eat. Hba1c is done at least once a year and only shows average of how your bloods were doing for the last 3 months (ish). So the hba1c is a constant average for about 3 months where as the bg is a spot check for that moment. We need both because like this we get a better image (a more complete image) of what is happening with our bodies and the diet we follow.

Thats probably the long and short of it!

luna50 said:

I am sorry if some one find that my text have to much heavy medical terminology.
I do not thing such. This subject can't be explain more simplified, without to lose a meaning.
The subject is much more complicated, but I can not do that better. It is not copy/paste, it is my own knowledge about the HBA1c , collected from different text's about that.
If someone has a questions about the part's of the text, then I will be pleased to answer.
Moreover I do not understand the critic on me because I have used time to explain what HBA1c is.
Many of you write links to the internet places with a very heavy medical terminology. What is the difference?
Is that something to do with " the who-do-you-think-you-are attitude" ???

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I appreciated it thank you!