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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BooJewels" data-source="post: 857049" data-attributes="member: 181094">To add to what Ali H said, I've always had the mental image that the HbA1c as a piece of data is rather like trying to ascertain if you've ever broken the speed limit by working out your annual fuel consumption and mileage. The figure is interesting in itself, but a low HbA1c doesn't necessarily indicate healthy complication-potential-free glucose readings during the period it covered if the readings fluctuated wildly.   I've never quite grasped why the NHS puts so much store in this one number. I've been diabetic for a long time and when first dagnosed, I was given a meter and log book and had to bring the book with me to appointments and the letters reminded you to do so.  Then the thinking changed and strips were reduced on prescriptions and I knew people who were newly diagnosed who were told not to test.  Now it seems to have changed back again to some degree, although my practice have never once balked at giving me strips, or occasionally, free meters.  I think they've tried to encourage us to use meters with cheaper strips, which is perfectly fair.</blockquote>

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