[Maddogg]

I see all these people on these boards that had an A1c below 9.0 when they were diagnosed, my A1c was a staggering 15.0 when I was diagnosed, it dropped almost by half after 3 months and went even lower the next time around.

So I'm just wondering, was my A1c at diagnosis this high (15 is undeniably high!!) because my BG around diagnosis was excessively high? I remember clocking in at around 55mmol/L (990mg/dl) when they first tested me. Docs said if I was any higher I'd be in a coma! And I know I was still really high for the 1st couple days after diagnosis because the doctors didn't want to give me too much insulin (I was young at the time and they didn't know how well I would react) and also took a few days to get all my supplies and what not...

What do you guys think? Can having extremely high (or extremely low) blood sugars around the same time you get you HbA1c tested, result in an innacurate, almost biased result??

Thanks in Advance and Have a Happy New Year!