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Wendyanne

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Hi everyone,

I have today recived my six monthly HbA1c results and as they are now in the new values i am not sure what in old money my HbA1c actually is.I did the conversion bit on this site and as my number was 38 mmol/mol Hb it has come out as 5.6% but on reading the print off the surgery gave me at the bottom it reads Serum fasting glucose...5.2 so I am not sure what the exact number is.

If it is 5.6% then that is exactly the same result that I got six months ago which for me is good considering that I am now only on one 500mg Metformin a day as opposed to the two tablets a day I was on previously.

Any help would be much appreciated....Thanks
 
Hi Wendyanne

38 = 5.6% sounds about right. My last HbA1c was 5.2% or 33 mmol/l - both on my print-out.

The 5.2 is your fasting glucose for that day, measured from the blood sample(s) the nurse took. This should be more accurate than from your own meter. I decided to do a finger-prick test at the same time as the nurse took the sample - mine was 5.3, nurse's sample was 6! Then again, I can get two totally different results from the same finger if I test my blood twice at the same time, so no point worrying

Viv 8)
 
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