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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
My HbA1c was 7.3% - 56 but I was retested two weeks later and it was 7.5% - 58.
That's when I was formally diagnosed.
I think it was retested in case it was a mistake. Mistakes can occur. It is after all a serious diagnosis.
I was still in shock and disbelief at the time. After the first result, I woke up one morning a couple of days later and decided it had been a mistake. The blood sample did not belong to me but the man who had gone into the test room before me. It didn't last long.
I'll add that I had many symptoms.
When you had your 1st test at 56, did you do or eat differently in the 2 weeks leading up to the 2nd test?
I wonder how it was higher if you did change eating habits..?