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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2753329" data-attributes="member: 517579">March 2025 checkup/monitoring:HbA1c 37.  BP 125/80. Weight slightly up (14 stone/90kg), which I am not bothered about as I think it's football-driven muscle (re)gain - my waist is still shrinking - down to under  32 inches.However, there's  a story to this. The initial A1c test was done on the machine at the general practice and that returned a value of 53! I challenged it - it would have been my highest ever HbA1c -  and the DN agreed to do a blood draw for a lab test. That resulted in the 37 (which is more like what I'd have expected). I guess the moral of the story is that the testing machines can be really wrong sometimes. One rogue result in five years...... I don't think it's worth fretting much about a couple of points either way - a 39 as opposed to a 37, for example, there's just that built-in level of machine variation.  But clearly machines can be seriously wrong sometimes. So that's five years of normal, non-diabetic, HbA1c results.  Next milestone - March 2030.</blockquote>

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