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Ahhh. I think I understand by what you were talking about with the “7″. When they do the A1c blood test, the results of that are in the low number range. Six is like border line, and when you are getting up to like 8 and above you are considered in bad ranges. In the ranges of what could put you in hospital. The numbers I spoke of before where daily glucose readings/numbers that are the read out of our glucose meters. I had thought that was what you are asking about. The daily readings are measured the way I told you, 90-100 is in normal range, below 70 is too low, etc. (and in Canada and Europe the daily glucose meter reading numbers are a different level/read out) So your doctor telling you that you are 7.4 is what your A1c result is. That is not a daily meter reading, but is a long term result of your glucose levels. (They say it is close to about a 3 month average of your glucose). The A1c is a whole different number system. I was 12 (and above) for a couple years (no
one can believe I wasn’t in hospital from it being that high), but now my last A1c was a six and my doctor told me, they prefer to be between 5 and 6. My daily readings/numbers were in the upper 200’s and lower 300’s (at times it would actually reach 400) for a couple years. I am a type 2 diabetic, but he put me on insulin to try to bring the numbers down. Didn’t help much. He put me on Byetta in June and it has been a miracle medication for me. My numbers are usually low 100’s and mid 100’s at the highest. I even had a couple evenings where I dropped too low and had to take sometime glucose wise to bring it up. (you can go too low and die from that just as much as being too high) I was not eating enough carbs during the day. Would only have some at breakfast time and none the rest of the day. That caused my glucose to drop too low in the evening. Now I have a bit of carb with my lunch and dinner. No more too low and being in danger. But now I am on the Cipro, it will be
elevated from that. Stress of any kind (physical, mental, emotional, etc) affects our glucose, as does being ill, and some medicines will affect it too. Cipro is one of them that makes it go up. Prednisone will really make it spike and you have to monitor your readings several times a day when taking cortisone medication.

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DATE: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:15:23 -0700
SUBJECT: Re: [World_Wide_Diabetes] re: measuring glucose
Thank you, Sue, for that info. But I am in the US, and the
doctor rates me as “7.4″ Guess I’ll have to ask him the next
time I see him.
When I was in Africa I forgot and let a little water from
the shower trickle into my mouth. I immediately got sick.
Cipro took care of the problem immediately. I believe in
Cipro!
rowdy