DIABETICS!!: whats your HBA1c???

jagabomb

hi just wondering out of curiosity really i suppose, what are your average HBA1c readings?? mine were always about 9ish never went higher than 9.7 and recently they are about 7.9-8ish...
yours please??

tbh

I think my last one was about 8%, I'd been travelling a lot tho. Due my next one next month, realistically it'll probably be about the same..

robinph

Don't know at the moment as my last checkup never actually happened. This does remind me that I really should go back and see them again though.

Think before that I was generally just above the 7 mark.

mike65

7.2

Mike.

chilli_pepper

6.5

BC

6.5
usually ranges from 6.1 to 6.5

wada

my daugerters

9.8 then june 2007
9.8 then sep 2007
9.2 then jan
8.7 april

appt next month and we will get a slap on the wrist recon they will be about 10 she has had high blood sugars for about 2 months and has been waking up at 13.4 - 20.5 and some mornings 3.4 just cant get it right. trying somthing else for last few days and it seems to be working. the blood glucose monitor we have gives you an average 14 day reading a month ago it was 19.7 over 14 days now it is 9.6 but shes having lots of hypos.

she hurt tendons in her leg 3 months ago and was on crutches for 3 weeks and a month ago she broke her nose and had to have it reset 2 weeks later they think the stress could have been a factor in her high blood sugars

lucernarian

Usually in the low 7s.

My last one in June was 6.6 though, delighted with that. Previous one was 7.8 in January. Starting college obviously didn't help during that time...

Alanstrainor

Mine is 7.8, pretty pissed off with that one, usually hitting the 6.5 to 6.8 mark, i blame it on lots of travel and college though, hopefully i'll get back on track in the coming months.

LeoGilly

Mines 8.9 at the moment.

kowloon

around the 13.5 mark, down from 14.7. Go me!

multiformat14

Type 1 nearly a year now so by no means an old hand at diabetes , I get fed up with the clinic criticising my diary levels although my HBA1c's have been falling steadily since first diagnosed. Last time it was taken I was mid 6's but expect it to be up next visit because the experts lowered my lantus.I get little encouragement from them so in a way its good to see that others are getting higher numbers than me , sometimes I feel as though I'm not doing well....constant reminders and lectures about eye damage ,amputations etc. do nothing to keep my morale up when I'm still struggling to come to terms with my condition. My daily spread can be anything from 4 up to 15 ....if it goes up above 10 I feel as though I hav'nt got it under control....am I being too critical ?

tbh

are you going to the mater?

mike65

Thats the Mater (hospital) I presume

Mike

tbh

yeah the way multi describes the team reminds me of a Dr in the Mater who I found a little brusque, mind you wherever I am in the world, all the doctors know of this guy, so he's obviously doing something right.

SeaSide

it's a very fine line between encouraging someone to do better and completely causing them to give up.

tbh

too fine for me I moved out to St. Vincents

SeaSide

any better or greener grass

tbh

SeaSide wrote: »

any better or greener grass

much better for me. While I do need a kick in the ass every now and again, my current Dr. is very sympathetic and willing to discuss anything, even if it's a crap idea on my part. He's waaay more approachable.

SeaSide

6.0 btw

thischarmingman

mine is 6.1.

its amazing what the bit of regular exercise does lads...its the only way (though i'm panned out on the couch now)

tv3

mine is 10-12:( and im attending st james which i dont like at all.Im soon going to change to tallaght:)

wada

My daughter just got hers on the 10th sept, ( she turned 9 on the 16th) i thought they would be 10 because she had a reading of 19 over a 14 day period.

They were 8.7 down by .2 from 8.9 (june) going in the right direction.

uli84

mine 7.2 - not sure though if it is not because of the low sugars that are not detected

Phototoxin

First (and last until december!) = 6.5 % OH YEAH!!

mike65

Pah, call yourself a diabetic?! Should be 7.5 at least :pac:

Mike

tv3

What is the aim?

robinph

To keep it under 7, although I think some of them may have lowered the target number a bit further now.

philten

Mine was 6.9 last visit - has got better since on the pump. Was in 7's before pump, ever since has been mid to high 6's.

I am attending the Mater but think of changing to Vincents, have been attending for few years now but not too happy with one of the consultants in there, nurses very good tho. Do Vincents have a pump clinic??

tbh

philten wrote: »

Mine was 6.9 last visit - has got better since on the pump. Was in 7's before pump, ever since has been mid to high 6's.

I am attending the Mater but think of changing to Vincents, have been attending for few years now but not too happy with one of the consultants in there

Doctor F, by any chance? Not sure about vincents having a pump clinic, I'd guess they do tho.

philten

Thats the one - they were making changes a bit too easily for my liking without getting the full picture. e.g. looking at last 3 days reading and changing my basal rates up and down, imo need to look back further than that to get a pattern, tried saying this but were not listening!

tbh

philten wrote: »

Thats the one - they were making changes a bit too easily for my liking without getting the full picture. e.g. looking at last 3 days reading and changing my basal rates up and down, imo need to look back further than that to get a pattern, tried saying this but were not listening!

he was the reason I stopped going to the Mater and started going to Vincents private. My mam still goes to him and swears by him, but he's just to brusque for my liking.

tv3

Got my most recent and its 9.2.The doctor said it should be between 4 and 6.9;)

BC

I attend the mater - not Dr F though!
I find my doc great - very encouraging, very thorough and full of information.

TV3 - 4 sounds very optimistic of your doctor!!

tv3

BC wrote: »

I attend the mater - not Dr F though!
I find my doc great - very encouraging, very thorough and full of information.

TV3 - 4 sounds very optimistic of your doctor!!

Is it???why?

robinph

4 would be a bit low for a "normal" person wouldn't it? Or they'd be very close to that number anyway I think so expecting us to be able to aim to get to that is asking a bit much.

Edit: Seems that an Hba1c of 4 would equate to an average bg reading of 3.3. Feck that for a target, no one should be keeping quite that low:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hba1c

tv3

Yea i agree it is abit hard.What are you told to aim for??

robinph

I've just been told below 7 before, which I think I may have only actually managed twice over the years.

Not sure what my current numbers would be like though, but after they completely forgot about me last year I've just got the letter through for this years checkup next month. I'm just hoping that the marathon training I've been doing is going to have done good things for the numbers rather than bad though as either is possible with the amount of energy gels I've been downing in training recently.

BC

I've always been told below 7 also.

My doc says around 5.8 would basically be considered normal.

Alanstrainor

Aye below 7 is what i "try" to achieve, 4 would be way too low tbh, i mean, to get an average of 4 you must be "low" almost all the time...

SeaSide

DrIndy posted this Link a while back.

Shows the relationship between Blood Glucose level and HbA1c

Caros

Well I'll let ye know what mine are tomorrow, had blood tests done a fortnight ago and was told to phone yesterday for results but in the meantime got a letter TUESDAY evening from dr asking me to make an appointment with her to discuss test results. Phoned yesterday to make said appointment and while I was at it asked for the results but they wouldn't give them to me over the phone, so frankly I'm kinda sh*tting it here till I get to see Dr tomorrow evening.

I'm a type 2 diabetic and I found out last year when I went for a medical for a job, currently on glucopgae tabs and tabs for BP.
Anyways i'll be back tomorrow!

Caros

Yikes 9.9% !!! Dr has me on an extra glucopage tab now daily for the next 8 weeks to see how that goes. So here's hoping...

BTW that link above is great, thanks.

Agnes1975

6,1 %

tv3

What is the best way to get it to the "normal"?

tbh

trial and error - take regular readings so that you know what effects food and exercise have on your body, and do more of the stuff that keeps it low, and less of the stuff that makes it go high. I make it sound so easy, don't I?

tv3

Yes you do ha.Does the diet orange have any effect you reckon??Or the likes of mixed nuts??

robinph

Finally went for my HBA1C test today after missing last years one. I think I'm actually going to get a bit nervous about it this time as I'm really curious to see what effect all my crazy activities over the last while will have on the numbers. There were some activities good for ones health and some bad so it may have all evened itself out though.

robinph

Well it was 8.0 in the end, although that is actually still a slight improvement on last time. They were surprised at my HR of 45 though, so the marathon training did do some good at least.

tbh

HR?

edit: nice one on the 8.0 :)b

robinph

Sorry, the heart rate from the ECG thingy.

There was lots of other numbers that they had about me as well, which they said were all OK, but none of them mean anything to me so the HR was the only one I remembered really.