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<blockquote data-quote="Rachox" data-source="post: 1858245" data-attributes="member: 400972"><p>Ok so that’s not so bad. The HbA1c test is a clever test which looks at excess glucose stuck to your red blood cells over about 12 weeks, so a three month retest is fine. Here’s some more info:</p><p><a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-test.html" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-test.html</a></p><p>However in the meantime, you should be getting appts for the following, feet check up, eye check up and the offer of an education session, if you don’t, please chase up your surgery to arrange these for you. </p><p>Have you looked into changing your diet at all? The NHS ‘healthy’ eating advice unfortunately isn’t that healthy for Type 2s. I’m working on the assumption you are Type 2 as your HbA1c isn’t that high. As I’ve already said low carbohydrate diets are helpful to loads of us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rachox, post: 1858245, member: 400972"] Ok so that’s not so bad. The HbA1c test is a clever test which looks at excess glucose stuck to your red blood cells over about 12 weeks, so a three month retest is fine. Here’s some more info: [URL]https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-test.html[/URL] However in the meantime, you should be getting appts for the following, feet check up, eye check up and the offer of an education session, if you don’t, please chase up your surgery to arrange these for you. Have you looked into changing your diet at all? The NHS ‘healthy’ eating advice unfortunately isn’t that healthy for Type 2s. I’m working on the assumption you are Type 2 as your HbA1c isn’t that high. As I’ve already said low carbohydrate diets are helpful to loads of us. [/QUOTE]
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