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What does (u.s. units). fasting blood sugar 112 and H1A1c 5.3 mean

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yetta2mymom

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Hi

My primary care physician does not know what is the implied average blood sugar for an H1A1c of 5.3 (% I assume) means. I am under the impression that my fasting blood sugar taken at the same time as 112 (U.S. units) is probably nearly as high or higher than the average blood sugar for H1A1c of 5.3. Do you have an approximate conversion for H1A1c to average blood sugar in u.s. units? Any explanation for these strange results. I live on a very low carb diet to control my form of reactive hypoglycemia but these results are puzzling.
 
Have you looked at
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-units-converter.html
and
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-to-blood-sugar-level-converter.html
for starters?
There should be enough unit converters around the site to work it out but it may take more than one step.
Urgh!
Your 112 US (mg/dL) seems to be 6.2 UK (mmol/L)
6.2 UK equates to 5.5% HbA1c

So your fasting BG is in line with your HbA1c of 5.3%.
Remember that your fasting BG can be higher than your average BG if your liver has dumped some glucose into your blood during your fasting period. People expect the fasting reading to be the lowest of the day, but it isn't always.
The numbers do not seem inconsistent, especially if you spend some of the day running low BG due to your RH.
I assume that you are testing some of the time to help manage your RH?
 
Hi

Thanks. I considered a liver dump but still. I do not monitor my blood sugar. If I go off the wagon I get obvious fatigue. I have lived with simulated type 2 diabetes on a very low carb diet for over 12 years. I had undignosed or treated rh for about 50 years. I personally had to figure out my present diet and then I have figured out what is happening. If you are interested people with my genetics (a lot of people in India) produce hormones (the same or similar as found in the placenta) which create insulin resistance. We cut the hormones when our blood sugar gets too high (my glucose tolerance test looks like 170 u.s. units) and produce enough insulin to prevent much too high blood sugar. When the body determines we have lowered our insulin resistance enough it produces enough insulin to mop up the sugar in our blood. I had an autoimmune reaction in 1957 and I get into trouble whenever I cut the hormones (I can go on if you want).
 

Interesting.
Do you have any references for this condition?
It isn't something I have come across in the UK but there are loads of people from India who have moved here so there must be some in the UK with the condition.
Are you still in India or are you in the UK? Or elsewhere?
 
Hi

I figured this out for myself. I am in Winchester Massachusetts (near Boston) U.S. I advertise my web site which goes deply into this (theory?) thru google to health care professionals in the U.S. and India (all women with my gene get gestational diabetes) and yup my gene occurs throughout the world if you go on the form for gestional diabetes you will see that no women without the symptoms of my gene says they have gestational diabetes except one who takes steroids for a transplant. I am not allowed to give the name of my web site on this form but if you want a private communication, I never have done that, but I think I can give you my email site and you can ask me. Dr Vayda of Harvard University in the U.S. has been emailing me for years as I figured this out. He indicated my theory is possible, even probable, but has not been proved. If you are interested my gene may be a variation of the MRAP2 gene. Mice with a variation in this gene have an unexplained weight gain. Since people with my gene do not change sugar into fat and then fat into sugar we save a lot of energy and tend to be fat on the western diet.
 

Just adding I have written that all (maybe that is a small exageration) type 2 diabetics can control their condition with diet (for most eat my strange diet). If you actually have type 2 diabetes you will not lose weight (without other restrictions) on a low carb diet. I know of 2 doctors who are aware of this and have diabetics on a low carb diet. I have been on such a diet for over 12 years and my blood fats are fine, my circulation is fine, my blood pressure with some medication was 112/76 (u.s. units). I am seeing if I can slowly drop the medication. Obviously it is generally dangerous to change meds suddenly.
 
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