Re: 5.3

The lab report (& the home-test paperwork) should give the "normal range".
Don't just go by what the doc says! Get copies of all lab reports (get your
doctors used to sending them to you or having the lab send you copies
directly).

Labs that I've had A1c done at have had normal ranges that go up to 5.8 or
6.5. So my results at one are not directly comparable to those at the other.
A 6.0 at the first is not the same as a 6.0 at the second -- one is "high",
the other is "normal".
bj

"Exhibitionist" <jaybo@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Doc said that 6.0 is high-end normal and the 5.3 is "excellent." What
> makes no sense is that I feel like I've been bad for 2 & 1/2 months
> (and have 15 more pounds to prove it) and the A1C went DOWN, by 17%.
> It doesn't compute, unless that office test is WAY off and they need
> to go back to sending it to the lab.
>
>
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:18:05 GMT, "bj" <bjones44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>Is the "normal range" the same for both tests?
>>bj
>>


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