![]() ![]() But with my bad habits, I decided to start testing my blood again and I was worried when I was seeing some higher than normal (for me) fasting glucose ranges. I still had a yearly (I should have been doing a quarterly) A1C test which remained below full diabetes. During this time I also was not checking my blood regularly. Then COVID hit and with my working from home restrictions, I found myself adopting some bad habits of having sandwiches, chips, and some type of sweet treat with every lunch. In fact, my A1Cs after the first one, have never been back into the full-blown diabetes range again, but I’ve remained in the prediabetes range all these years. ![]() I did not want that for my own life so I kept a good handle on my diet and didn’t require any drugs to manage my diabetes. Since I had grown up watching my mom struggle with the disease which ultimately took her life after multiple amputations and strokes. I often ate a candy bar, a bag of chips, with another regular Coke. My idea of breakfast was a cinnamon sugar pop tart and a regular Coke. Let’s put it this way, my diet back then was crap. The moment I found out that I was diabetic, I immediately quit eating sugary foods and drinks. My grandma on my mother’s side died of complications from the disease, my mother died of complications from it at age 58, my niece became a Type-1 diabetic at a very young age, and my dad developed Type-2 diabetes in his 70’s. The word diabetes wasn’t unknown to me or my family. It’s a better way to track overall trends instead of just doing finger sticks because a finger stick only tells you the blood glucose reading at that exact time and can make a diabetic feel like they are on the right track when in reality their readings can be spiking really high the rest of the time. A reading of 5.7 – 6.4% means that you’re pre-diabetic and anything below 5.7% means that your blood glucose level is in the normal range.Ī1C is a reading that is a person’s average blood glucose level during the past 3 months. The American Diabetes Association and the CDC say that an A1C 6.5% and higher means that you’re diabetic. A little history about meĪfter a routine physical in 2004 showed that I had a fasting blood sugar reading of 102, I was given an A1C test that came back with a 6.9% result which meant that I was a Type-2 diabetic. The Abbott FreeStyle Libre 14 day is a flash glucose monitoring system that uses a wireless sensor that is inserted into your arm and wirelessly transmits your blood glucose level on demand to your phone or a dedicated FreeStyle reader device. ![]()
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