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PTS Diagnostics A1CNow+ (HbA1c Home Test) review

NoCrbs4Me said:
No. How about you?
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I don't know, because I have never dared try the experiment. BTW it was a genuine query, I was not being provocative. Since I can't eat more than a pitiful amount of carbs without raising my bg, and eating too much fat makes me feel queasy, only protein is left, but ...
 
Alexandra100 said:
I don't know, because I have never dared try the experiment. BTW it was a genuine query, I was not being provocative. Since I can't eat more than a pitiful amount of carbs without raising my bg, and eating too much fat makes me feel queasy, only protein is left, but ...
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Try frequent small LCHF meals so that you don't eat too much fat at one time. You can't eat just protein as that is not healthy. You need fat.
 
NoCrbs4Me said:
Try frequent small LCHF meals so that you don't eat too much fat at one time. You can't eat just protein as that is not healthy. You need fat.
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Thanks, but I am eating fat, and quite a lot more than I did before. I tried adding butter / olive oil to everything, but it just doesn't agree with me. And with delayed stomach emptying I can't start eating again until the last lot has gone down, or I risk having 2 lots of food raising my bg all at once.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I totally agree. My Libre has been invaluable to me, but interim HbA1c tests would merely be curiosity and of no real benefit. Apart from anything else, I pay very little attention to my HbA1c because whilst they are a useful tool for diagnosing diabetes, I don't believe they are in any way useful for determining tight control. I'm in the variability school, and as long as my glucose deviation is good, and my finger pricking and libre give good results, I am happy. The HbA1c will never show anyone the sort of dangerous swings they may be having, it just shows the average of the highs and lows.

https://www.bd.com/us/diabetes/page.aspx?cat=7001&id=14131

It is also an unreliable marker for anyone whose red blood cells do not live for the standard 120 or so days - either short lived or long lived. And how do we know how long our red blood cells live? We don't without extremely expensive special tests. So basically, we don't know if our HbA1c results are actually too low or too high.
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Could you post that link again please. I'm getting a page not found error. Thank you.
Edited. Sorry just noticed the date. But if there is a link I'd be interested.
 
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dbr10 said:
Could you post that link again please. I'm getting a page not found error. Thank you.
Edited. Sorry just noticed the date. But if there is a link I'd be interested.
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I'm sorry, the link doesn't work any more and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was all about. Is it variability you are interested in or the unreliability of the HbA1c?
 
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