Mine are generally between 4.7 and 5.1. I don't have hypos.

Hi Donna
I  feel that too low is just as bad as too high.

I've had many Hypo's and my A1C was 5.3 and feel it does harm to myself just
as too high will do

We just can't win

Larry from NJ

IMHO - you need to work to even it out. Hypo's are bad, just as highs are
bad. If you have a 5.1 that's good - if you don't experience hypo's. My
ultimate goal is to get back into the 'normal' range which is somewhere
around 4.5 - 4.7 or so.

On Mar 12, 2:44 am, "Cloudedbrains" <donna_william...@btopenworld.com>
wrote:

I think you are confusing A1c (aka HbA1c) and your blood glucose
readings.

Your doctor orders an A1c reading maybe once every three months or
so.  It's a measure of how much of your hemoglobin has sugar stuck to
it.   Lean, healthy adults usually run between 4% and 4.8% (according
to Dr. Bernstein.)  Not-so-lean nondiabetics are below 6%;  diabetics
in middlingly-good control stay below 7%; (exclusions apply, YMMV.)

You should be measuring your blood glucose several times a day.  In
the USA, folks usually measure in terms of mg/dl.    Healthy, lean
adults usually stay between 70-110 mg/dl.

Outside the USA, this is usually measured in mmol/l - convert by
dividing by 18.  This gives a normal range of 3.9 mmol/l to 6.7 mmol/
l.

DON'T CONFUSE YOUR A1c NUMBER WITH YOUR BLOOD-GLUCOSE NUMBER.  They
both range roughly between 4 and 7.  They're related.  But they
measure two different things.  A1c is a measure of how much damage the
glucose in your body has done to the blood cells (and by extension, a
measure of how much damage it's doing to the rest of your tissues,
too.)

Blood glucose can be too low - not enough fuel for certain parts of
the brain.   The only way that A1c can be too low is if the blood
cells are dying off rapidly and the body is quickly replacing them (so
they don't hang around long enough to show damage. )  This can happen
in sickle-cell disease and some other pathologic conditions.  Also,
some people can have unusual hemoglobins which don't measure normally
and their A1c measurements don't accurately reflect the damage that
high glucose is doing.  There's another test (fructosamine) that's
used to double-check the A1c result.

Read more detail at 'Healthy Blood Sugar Targets'
 http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/14045621.php

Adam Becker Sr

I never once got confused between sugars and hba1c but the person to
launched at me telling me I was confused DID !!
5.1 was my latestest hba1c NOT my sugar level and I clearly state that
elsewhere here as my fasting glucose was 7.1 !!
I also asked if low and high sugars can counter balance each other out and
cause a low hba1c and at that point when is a hba1c to low !!

I wasnt the one who was confused by a hba1c and sugar levels so why should I
put up with been harasssed like that !!

I clearly stated elsewhere on this that my hba1c was 5.1 and fasting glucose
7.1, then again I can also read seems some people jump in where they want
and assume they know it all !!