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10-09-2007, 02:33 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Posts: 607
| |  Home A1c results!
I don't know how reliable the number is but I like it...
5.1 
I'm going to the lab tomorrow for a "real" one - I hope it is as good.
I hope the results get here quicker too - I mailed my sample to Biosafe on 9/15 - they told me that it took over two weeks to arrive.
I was 7.0 in May.
Mark
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Dx May 2007
A1C @ Dx = 7.0
9/15/07 = 5.1 (Biosafe home test kit)
10/9/07 = 5.4
1/18/08 = 5.4
6/11/08 = 5.3
11/4/08 = 5.6
No meds - just diet and exercise |
10-09-2007, 03:16 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: West Virginia
Posts: 538
| | | I did one of the home A1c tests (Biosafe) on the same day that I had blood drawn for a local lab test. I did this just to see if the home kits were accurate. When I got the results they were identical.
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10-09-2007, 04:23 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,583
| | | Where do you purchase BioSafe? The brand I was buying was discontinued, Choice. |
10-09-2007, 04:55 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: West Virginia
Posts: 538
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Alice  Where do you purchase BioSafe? The brand I was buying was discontinued, Choice. | I buy mine on ebay: Diabetes Hemoglobin A1C Test Kit by BioSafe
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. |
10-10-2007, 06:37 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 7,261
| | | Mark, congrats on your great #s. Keep up the good work!
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  |
10-10-2007, 07:57 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Posts: 607
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Originally Posted by Alice Where do you purchase BioSafe? The brand I was buying was discontinued, Choice. | I got mine through drugstore.com - $23.99US.
Mark
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Dx May 2007
A1C @ Dx = 7.0
9/15/07 = 5.1 (Biosafe home test kit)
10/9/07 = 5.4
1/18/08 = 5.4
6/11/08 = 5.3
11/4/08 = 5.6
No meds - just diet and exercise |
10-10-2007, 07:59 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Posts: 607
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Originally Posted by wiseguy I did one of the home A1c tests (Biosafe) on the same day that I had blood drawn for a local lab test. I did this just to see if the home kits were accurate. When I got the results they were identical. | I had blood drawn this morning for another a1c. Not exactly the same day (I did the home test on 9/15) but close enough for a comparison.
I'll let you know how my "real" lab test comes out.
Mark
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Dx May 2007
A1C @ Dx = 7.0
9/15/07 = 5.1 (Biosafe home test kit)
10/9/07 = 5.4
1/18/08 = 5.4
6/11/08 = 5.3
11/4/08 = 5.6
No meds - just diet and exercise |
10-10-2007, 08:41 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Canada, Prince Edward Island
Posts: 476
| | | Gratz on the 1st numbers - I'm sure your numbers will match up.
Great work.
__________________ Mark K~
Type 1
Dx June 21st 2007
HbA1c
June 22, 2007 - 12.8
September 27, 2007 - 6.6
January 3, 2008 - 6.0
April 16, 2008 - 6.1
July 21, 2008 - 5.5
October 8, 2008 - 6.1
NovaRapid With Meals
Levemir at Bedtime
Acetylsalicylic Acid (ASA) 81 mg Daily
"Diabetes is for the intelligent and disciplined." |
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