Add'l Question

[nbriley]

Is a Bladder test standard procedure, never have had any problems with mine or urinating, good positive flo ever since my transplant

[Tybeeman]

Is a Bladder test standard procedure, never have had any problems with mine or urinating, good positive flo ever since my transplant

For him it is. He does a lot of things extra for precaution.

[Lost Sheep]

When you say blood sugar is 85-100 that scares me A LOT. In Canada, normal is 7.5 and below. 85 is dead.

Larry

A1C Hemoglobin should be in the single digits.

Blood Glucose should be in 80 to 120. 200 or so right after a meal and if you fall below 40-50, you are probably dead or close to it.

A1C Hemoglobin is an indicator of what your blood glucose has been over the past several months.

Blood Glucose level is a reading of blood sugar within the past few minutes.

A1C Hemoglobin, therefore changes slowly over weeks. Blood Glucose concentration changes minute by minute.

The two numbers are used for different purposes.

Blood Glucose allows a Diabetic person to regulate their activity levels, food intake and medication intake). A1C Hemoglobin tells their Physician/Dietician how well the patient has been regulating their Blood Glucose levels over time.

Yeah, what I meant was Canada and the US uses different scales to measure... like lbs./Kg, oz/ml, ft./mm, cm, dm, M

Larry

True, sort of. The two numbers are actually measuring different things entirely. The things are definitely related, but they are different things being measured. Sort of like measuring your weight vs measuring your body-fat percentage. Related, but not the same thing.

Specifically, the A1C test measures what percentage of your hemoglobin — a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen — is coated with sugar (glycated). This happens over time and since red blood cells circulate for a bit over 3 months, is a good indicator of what your blood gluscose levels have been over time. This is because higher blood glucose results is more of your red blood cells picking up the glycated coating.

That is, if your blood glucose is around 200 200mg/dL (Milligrams per Deciliter) day in and day out, your A1c is likely to be higher than 6 percent. If your glucose level is lower, say 100 mg/dL, less coating builds up on your red blood cells, so your percentage in the A1C test would be lower than 6 percent.

Percent is a dimensionless number, so is unaffected by whether you use the Metric system, English system or what have you. The Blood Glucose level is measured in the metric system in both the U.S., Canada, Europe and everywhere in the world that I know of.

[nbriley]

When I went in for my transplant my blood sugar was over 600, I was a brittle diabetic and on 3 shots a day and fading fast and once the pancreas was transplanted my blood sugar leveled out to under 100 and has been that way for 25years now, my hemoglobin is 10.5 and creatinine level runs 2.3 - 2.6 only because I have one working kidney

[Larry10625]

A1C Hemoglobin should be in the single digits.

Blood Glucose should be in 80 to 120. 200 or so right after a meal and if you fall below 40-50, you are probably dead or close to it.

A1C Hemoglobin is an indicator of what your blood glucose has been over the past several months.

Blood Glucose level is a reading of blood sugar within the past few minutes.

A1C Hemoglobin, therefore changes slowly over weeks. Blood Glucose concentration changes minute by minute.

The two numbers are used for different purposes.

Blood Glucose allows a Diabetic person to regulate their activity levels, food intake and medication intake). A1C Hemoglobin tells their Physician/Dietician how well the patient has been regulating their Blood Glucose levels over time.

Yeah, what I meant was Canada and the US uses different scales to measure... like lbs./Kg, oz/ml, ft./mm, cm, dm, M

Larry

True, sort of. The two numbers are actually measuring different things entirely. The things are definitely related, but they are different things being measured. Sort of like measuring your weight vs measuring your body-fat percentage. Related, but not the same thing.

Specifically, the A1C test measures what percentage of your hemoglobin — a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen — is coated with sugar (glycated). This happens over time and since red blood cells circulate for a bit over 3 months, is a good indicator of what your blood gluscose levels have been over time. This is because higher blood glucose results is more of your red blood cells picking up the glycated coating.

That is, if your blood glucose is around 200 200mg/dL (Milligrams per Deciliter) day in and day out, your A1c is likely to be higher than 6 percent. If your glucose level is lower, say 100 mg/dL, less coating builds up on your red blood cells, so your percentage in the A1C test would be lower than 6 percent.


Actually, in Canada, our normal blood sugars are measured in mmol, not mg/dL Milligrams per Deciliter. 4.0 mmol/L to 7.0 mmol/L when measuring blood glucose fasting or before eating. 5.0 mmol/L to 10.0 mmol/L when measuring blood glucose 2 hours after eating (your physician or primary health care provider may recommend a range of 5.0 mmol/L to 8.0 mmol/L if you are not at your A1C target Percent is a dimensionless number, so is unaffected by whether you use the Metric system, English system or what have you. The Blood Glucose level is measured in the metric system in both the U.S., Canada, Europe and everywhere in the world that I know of.[/quote]

This was taken from: https://www.google.ca/search?site=&sour ... 8fNEU7lYFA

Weird that there is like three different ways to measure it. I am pretty sure we use the same system for A1C

Cheers

Larry