| Let me start by saying that I am very new to all of this - so take my advice with a grain of salt. I noticed that you mentioned testing your blood sugar at 2 hours after you eat. You might want to try testing at one hour when it "peaks". Your high a1c might be the result of high peaks you are unaware of at the 2 hour reading. I thought my blood sugar was doing fine until I decided to check it at one hour (it was 188 after dinner one night!!) I thought my a1c of 5.3 should be under 5 until I realized how high I was going at one hour. | 
