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<blockquote data-quote="ebony321" data-source="post: 197815" data-attributes="member: 17199"><p>Very well said viv, that's the treatment you should expect to receive.</p><p></p><p>Also it's my understanding that HBA1c's should be given every 3 months until good control is acheived then moved to every 6 months at LEAST.</p><p></p><p>For example if your HBA1c came out in january at 5.5% great! ..but then by march time it's slowly creeping up and up, til your next one the following january comes out at 10.5% oh dear! then you've missed out on well over 6 months worth of chance to prevent this from happening!</p><p></p><p>one hba1c every year is nowhere near good enough to monitor control, whether you use medication or not!</p><p></p><p>when testing daily you can spot if you are diet controlled if your diet isn't quite enabling you to get the control you want then you can tweak this yourself, if your using medication you can see if this also needs to be tweaked. If your using Hypo inducing meds or insulin it expecially needs to be monitored incase you slip into hypo land!</p><p></p><p>Testing is so so so important to anyone with diabetes, what ever type and whatever method of control is used!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ebony321, post: 197815, member: 17199"] Very well said viv, that's the treatment you should expect to receive. Also it's my understanding that HBA1c's should be given every 3 months until good control is acheived then moved to every 6 months at LEAST. For example if your HBA1c came out in january at 5.5% great! ..but then by march time it's slowly creeping up and up, til your next one the following january comes out at 10.5% oh dear! then you've missed out on well over 6 months worth of chance to prevent this from happening! one hba1c every year is nowhere near good enough to monitor control, whether you use medication or not! when testing daily you can spot if you are diet controlled if your diet isn't quite enabling you to get the control you want then you can tweak this yourself, if your using medication you can see if this also needs to be tweaked. If your using Hypo inducing meds or insulin it expecially needs to be monitored incase you slip into hypo land! Testing is so so so important to anyone with diabetes, what ever type and whatever method of control is used!! [/QUOTE]
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