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A1C question
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Family history of diabetes. So even though my numbers are generally normal (will explain why I said generally) I do check my blood sugar occasionally just to be certain.
For some round about reasons I have had two blood tests in the last month that included A1C. My A1C a month ago was 5.6 today it was 6.2.
The first number makes sense in relation to my blood sugar meter numbers. 5.6 equates to an average of 114 ml/dl although even this is still high compared to my meter number averages but I am not using it that consistently. 6.2 is an average of 131. This doesn't seem to make sense. I don't use my meter a lot only 20 times in the last 3 months but they are spread out through the day the highest reading was 128 after a meal in the evening. When I go all the way back to December of 2019 when I got the meter the highest ever reading was 145 and I distinctly remember checking between and hour and 90 minutes after eating ice cream (something I rarely do) just to see what it would do to my BS.
So the reason I say generally above is my fasting blood sugar in the morning tends to be high I don't know if it dawn phenomenon or similar but since I got the meter my average BS fasting in the morning is 108 my midday before meal average is 91 my evening before meal is 96.
Today I took my BS before I left for the blood draw it was 103 at the blood draw was 109 probably within the margin of error, right before lunch about 3 hours after breakfast it was 97 so the current numbers seem to mesh with my averages.
For some round about reasons I have had two blood tests in the last month that included A1C. My A1C a month ago was 5.6 today it was 6.2.
The first number makes sense in relation to my blood sugar meter numbers. 5.6 equates to an average of 114 ml/dl although even this is still high compared to my meter number averages but I am not using it that consistently. 6.2 is an average of 131. This doesn't seem to make sense. I don't use my meter a lot only 20 times in the last 3 months but they are spread out through the day the highest reading was 128 after a meal in the evening. When I go all the way back to December of 2019 when I got the meter the highest ever reading was 145 and I distinctly remember checking between and hour and 90 minutes after eating ice cream (something I rarely do) just to see what it would do to my BS.
So the reason I say generally above is my fasting blood sugar in the morning tends to be high I don't know if it dawn phenomenon or similar but since I got the meter my average BS fasting in the morning is 108 my midday before meal average is 91 my evening before meal is 96.
Today I took my BS before I left for the blood draw it was 103 at the blood draw was 109 probably within the margin of error, right before lunch about 3 hours after breakfast it was 97 so the current numbers seem to mesh with my averages.