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New confused diabetic

Diabetes & Endocrine System | Last Active: Feb 9, 2018 | Replies (55)

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@vanin11

Hi, thanks, I wonder why these Dr s panic, they only look at that fasting numbers and make a conclusion of diabetes.
Can I ask what your morning numbers are?
Thanks so much for posting.

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They can be from the one teens to the 150s. Generally I average somewhere in the 130ish range every morning. They have concluded I have dawn phenomenal. My A1C is 6.1!which is pretty good

Hi, so what is that number on the blood glucose self check.

@vanin11 My numbers are almost always in the 150 Range, which means they are actually always between 100 to 200. This is because the strips are considered accurate by FDA standards if they are withing 50 points, up or down. So We all live with that 100 point range. Most of the workers in diabetes are not doctors, but specialty trained non-doctors who get paid by the number of persons they can convince to come in for an appointment. This only happens when they can convince patients by their excitement. Keep your numbers within 50 of 150, and you are OK, according to all of my people.

Do u have any contacts there that a guy could talk to.

I checked with all of "MY PEOPLE" and found that the numbers are relative to the individual. I started out believing that I needed that number to be below 100. Now my doc wants me somewhere between 150 and 200. Also my first A1C was over 12 and I was told my goal should be 6 or below so I did that . Over the next several years I crept up to
7.2 and my doc was very happy and told me the new optimum was 7. I leave all of this to my care-giver because I can't keep up. I checked with all my people (They were in my mirror) and they were happy.

110- 138. In mornings