Gardengnome
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 134
- Location
- uk
- Type of diabetes
- Don't have diabetes
- Treatment type
- Diet only
- Dislikes
- going to a gym
His reason for saying this is because The A1c a year ago was 41mmol/mol, which I only recently discovered. I know this is the top end of normal but it was still a shock and the dr agreed to do it again - it was exactly the same. Over the past year I have lost a lot of weight and altered my eating and exercise habits and have a bmi of <19, all the things I would have been advised to do had this been picked up a year ago. The dr says the improved lifestyle has prevented it from rising but that it will rise: he is the main diabetes dr in the practice so I am inclined to believe him. He tells me to come back in a year to have it done again. so if I do that and the A1c has risen to 48% I have a diagnosis of T2 ?
I have decided after some deliberation to buy myself a glucose meter and check levels myself; if I don't do this how can I know where I am going wrong. To perform the home fasting test I believe I should take a fasting drop of blood on waking, then take a glucose drink [lucozade?] and test again in 1 hr and then again in another hour. What numbers should I be looking for? I would then like to use the meter to discover which foods give me a spike throughout the day. . Also before I do a fasting test should I eat a high carb diet for several days? I realise any result is not accurate but it would give me time to discover myself what I can do before I have the next A1c and of course there would be no numbers on my clinical notes that could be inconvenient - to say the least! If I do nothing I could be sleepwalking into a disaster.
Which meter should I buy and what is the best way to go about it?
I have decided after some deliberation to buy myself a glucose meter and check levels myself; if I don't do this how can I know where I am going wrong. To perform the home fasting test I believe I should take a fasting drop of blood on waking, then take a glucose drink [lucozade?] and test again in 1 hr and then again in another hour. What numbers should I be looking for? I would then like to use the meter to discover which foods give me a spike throughout the day. . Also before I do a fasting test should I eat a high carb diet for several days? I realise any result is not accurate but it would give me time to discover myself what I can do before I have the next A1c and of course there would be no numbers on my clinical notes that could be inconvenient - to say the least! If I do nothing I could be sleepwalking into a disaster.
Which meter should I buy and what is the best way to go about it?