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HBA1c 68 - can't be right. What measurement are you using? Mmol or mg/dl?
 
HBA1c 68 - can't be right. What measurement are you using? Mmol or mg/dl?
The HbA1c is either measured in mmol/mol (ie. not mg/dl or mmol/l) - in which case 68 is a valid number that it can be though definitely showing diabetes (48+ is classed as diabetes, 42-47 is pre-diabetes), or in an old school percentage format (68mmol/mol = 8.4%) .
Though you realise you've replies to quite an old thread.
 
Use a book? With a writing quill and blotter?

Time to join the 21st century



Nothing wrong with keeping her information in a book and if the poster wants to use a quill and blotter why not? Whatever floats your boat.

I could use my iPad or even my phone but I designed and printed off a pile of A4 horizontal spreadsheet based on blood sugar levels before and after each meal - I eat three times a day - that I leave lying on the dining room table.along with a pencil. When one spreadsheet is finished I clip it to the others.
 

I stopped using simvastatin when after taking them for about two weeks I couldn’t walk from the camp site we were staying on to the bus stop across the road - previously we used to walk int town - a brisk half hour. I was also really depressed.
This was years ago before statins became given out like they are today.
I knew nothing about them until I came home and did a spit if online research - found the muscle pains but it took a lot of looking too find that depression was a side effect too. Nasty stuff.
 
HBA1c 68 - can't be right. What measurement are you using? Mmol or mg/dl?
I wrote that post you quoted 3.5 years ago and had forgotten it. If you are referring to the 68 in my signature then it is in mmol and dated 2009 when I was diagnosed. The other Hba1c results show what low carbing can do.
 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Healthy-Eating-medicine-cholesterol-Alzheimers-ebook/dp/B078SCDMXF

Try this. It covers many things but includes a taking apart of most of the received wisdom on statins.
 
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