A1c soon to be ‘Betes main diagnostic tool
I was just thumbing through the most recent issue of JAMA (that would be the Journal of the American Medical Association….am I sounding smart yet?) and I was alerted that the new diagnostic criteria for diabetes will soon officially be the A1c test - this is a HUGE shift away from the traditional use of [...]
It depends.
Ok. Its over. Big sigh of relief. I went to see the Endo today and my number is down. Thanks to the encouragement of some of the readers here, I am going to just come clean and write it down: I went from 7.5% back in January down to 7.2%. Not exactly at my goal [...]
Batter up.
I have an appointment with my Endo on Thursday, and I gotta say, for the first time in a while, I am nervous. I see my doc (or rather, a CDE Physician’s Assistant) regularly, so its not that I don’t know what to expect. I am also a meticulous logger for the weeks pre-appointment. I [...]
