It was a lab test.

How would a finger stick at the same time correlate to an a1c?

The finger stick is to correlate with the BG drawn at the same time.

As MickiSue said, it's to check your glucometer against the BG reading from a blood draw. That's really the only way to know what accuracy range your meter readings fall into. Hospital glucometers are required to be within 10% accurate, and are supposed to be checked and calibrated on a schedule for compliance. The same is not true of home meters, where the variance can be up to ~20%.

If you think your meter isn't giving you believable readings because of what you saw in your lab A1C, then your options are 1) test your meter, 2) get a new meter, or 3) stop testing your BG.

I wouldn't recommend the third option if you have any type of diabetes diagnosis. But, as in all things, you do you. *shrug*

Derrr. I should learn to read. Blood glucose wan't ordered, just an a1c.

I've gotten a new meter and new strips, and I'm diabetic. So that leaves a lab BG to test my meter against. I'll see if she will do that. Thanks.

This is not an ad for DirectLabs, other "direct to consumer" labs may be more convenient/cheaper with coupons, etc, but the just announced November specials are a Diabetes Package with FBG, Hba1c, the liver tests like AST, and some other basic metabolic markers for $44. HBa1c on its own is $29.

November is Diabetes Awareness Month. I better not see any bake sales benefits, barely made it through Breast Cancer month without losing my mind.

Wanted to give a follow up. I dropped net carbs a bit to 35. Also added a bit more protein and coconut oil to increase fat before and during my workouts (hard 2 hours).

Also though just halved my reverse t3 by switching to almost all natural thyroid. Great article here on cellular conversion problems. https://www.nahypothyroidism.org/deiodinases/

Now blood glucose below 140 always. Fbg still 102-106 but the rest better.

I'm wondering if hypothyroidism on the cellular level, even with normal tsh, leads to a stressed body during workouts and a higher blood glucose response?

Now I'm practicing IF 18/6 or 20/4. Still fbg of 109? Wtf? Rest of the time 92-112. So all times but first thing in the morning is great. Why do u think the fbg is still high?

It's 'higher' around the time you wake for the perfectly normal reason that the body has pumped out four hormones to raise your BG from the lower fasted level when asleep to ready your body for the day. You are not diabetic so you do not have the very high BG of Dawn Phenomenon or the very low Somogyi effect, but the normal circadian pattern of hormones and BG. In Dr Fung's blunt language, "a good ol' fashioned hormonal kick in the ass"


https://www.dietdoctor.com/the-dawn-phenomenon

I had similar slightly over 100 FBG for a few years, one view is that when eating VLC that hormone surge may overcompensate for the low BG at night. These past two years after adding IF of 24 hours or less, my FBG is more in the 90s...but it took months to see that consistently. You are already very healthy and can add the occasional IF with a 4-8 eating window to see if that brings down FBG, but please also consider what Amy Berger recently wrote about who should not fast. http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2016/1...ast-2.html#more

Thank you fey. I appreciate ur encouraging words. IF is sometimes harder because I run and bike 1000 calories every morning and have a body fat of around 13%. If I eat my last meal by 3 pm and wait till after finishing my workout and eat my first meal at 9am I have an eating window of 6 hours but sometimes am very hungry because of the workout. Do u think I'll get the same results adding 240 calories of coconut oil to fuel the second part of my workout at 7? I really want ur low blood glucose numbers. Mine are usually around 105 so i do need insulin resistance rehab.

I do not exercise intensely and have no advice except you might try eating more and exercising less

Please read and take to heart Amy Berger's advice on who should not be fasting. Physical stress is not helping your BG, and may be impacting thyroid.
Part 1 is more to the point: http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2016/09/not-so-fast.html

Last week home test A1C was 5.2 and that is exactly what i'm seeing-a reading most of the time of around 105, morning fbg of 109, and peaks now LC of 112 to 129. So good post prandial and higher than normal bg most of the time and as Dr. Fung says, anytime you see higher morning bg there is insulin resistance. So still working the problem.

I'd love to hear feedback from Fey.
Leslie

Thanks for responding. This site is my go to site all issues health related. We have more collective knowledge then anywhere else.

I think the takeaway is if I feel tired I'm doing something wrong, starving myself, or over exercising. I do have a tendency in that direction!

I am feeling great on a shorter eating window and my blood glucose is lower. Maybe for us thin people longer fasts are out of bounds or very limited.
Leslie

Still doing if. Usually have two tbsn coconut oil in coffee after my morning run if I feel I need it. Dr Fung said in an article that he feels ok about some people using fat during a fast. Then I eat 5 hours after waking up and after burning 800-900 calories in exercise (I'm trying to reduce exercise). I reduced protein to 100 grams increasing fat. I keep my eating window to 2-8 hours switching it up.

And go figure-my blood glucose is down to 91-117. It really differs but no more 176 and I credit the fasting!

For people of low weight maybe intermittent fasting to reset insulin but using more flexibility, shorter times, and fat?
Leslie

Blood glucose now never over 126 and that is usually while fasting and after i exercise. When i break the fast blood glucose drops to 80-100. Fasting in the morning though still 103-110. How long is it going to take to come down or is it an effect of low carb eating?