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Thread: Honeymoon coming to a end

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07-02-2007, 02:29 AM

dbc

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I am a: Type 1.5

Join Date: Jan 2005

Location: South Africa

Posts: 205

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Originally Posted by Kimber

rzrbks,
I have discovered (through lots of testing) that if I only looked at the usual 3 readings a day my numbers look good but if I look at more frequent readings I actually go up to 140 or 150 daily!!! How on earth did I get an A1C of 5.7 doing this I wonder???
Kimber

An A1c of 5.7% corresponds to an average of 126. If you go up to 140/150 or higher for only short periods (after meals), it is quite feasible to see the numbers you get. Seems to me you're doing pretty well!