A1C disconnect; this testing a good thing or bad… : z
Morning Kate,
Catching up again. (Apologies if its been covered and I merely missed it).
How do we justify our vigilance (testing) when ~many folks~ get a severe & meaningful disconnect between their A1C and the daily readings of their monitors???
For myself…. I would GLADLY turn my back on the home testing and NEVER, EVER look back, even for a micro second. I know fully well the urine testing of our youth (I preferred the test tape OR the cool chemistry set with the blue fizzy-acid tablets personally….) was worthless. But despite that fact, I would gladly return to it…. or some more modern interesting variation of it. I do all the tests but… I have no love, only disdain at best….
And consider.
There are thousands of diabetics, perhaps more who PURELY because of the fact that, it HURTS… even if only a “little” are doing anything/everything they can conceive of to cheat, scheme to avoid it like the plague….. and do so. Kids, teens, who get their friends to do it for them…. others, who know full well it’s only a little tiny, tiny procedure… and hurts for a micro second… but <gently shaking head
How do we get around the little tiny problem of the reality that any test we do is a snapshot of that single second ONLY. You alter the dosages, based on the short term (sic. 3 day) patterns…. (and that’s ~testing 101~).
The dailys & A1C’s may not agree because as we cannot possibly test sufficiently 24-7 to discover the patterns below the surface few times we do/are testing…. There are other potential causes but given that particular frustration, how would you explain testing as much as you currently do?!
Look forward to your collective thoughts ;~ )
Jeff