As a type 1 diabetic I am qualified to say no. It’s the one test that is not back same day (other than thyroid). It takes three to five days to show up in my lab results. I’ve never in over 50 years of being diabetic heard of an A1C coming back day-of, let alone IN the doctors office.
Maybe it's the difference between type 1 and type 2 because my mom is a type 2 and she has her A1C sometimes within 1-3 hours depending on how backed up the lab is. Never has it come back while she was still in the doctor's office which is why she usually gets that done the day before.
You may not live in burgerland, but they've had Point of Care (in-office) testing of A1C for years. Saves lab time and costs, allows doctors to discuss the results immediately and alter treatment without delay. As Hapless Toad said, Kuwait has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world, so it's probably common to have in office testing.
A lot of that is because she runs her channel like a dictatorship. She acts like her PAYING members work for HER, when it's really the other way around. She insults them, blocks them, and alienates them if they dare post anything that isn't 100% ass-kissing. She also sanitizes her comments and uses sock accounts to compliment herself. What fun is that? People flock to reaction channels because they are allowed to comment freely. (And a lot of them cut out the really boring bits.)
I forgot about the eyebrow raise and wannabe Pablo Escobar appearance.
I hope so. I almost never watch her any more because this Kuwait era is so painfully boring. I just come here for the occasional update while waiting for her to return to Canada for good, give up the muslim cosplay and give us a head reveal.Inshallah this is a sign of slowly phasing him out so we can go back and beeze in Canada instead
I wonder how day one is going.
She doesn’t test her own A1C, she at most does random blood glucose levels, which test glucose levels at time of test. As others have said A1C is a guesstimate 3 month average. The A1C test measures the amount of hemoglobin with attached glucose and REFLECTS your average blood glucose levels over the past 3 months.
It’s a usual and easy measure for most people, but very flawed if used on its own because it doesn’t measure the swings. It’s an indicator of glucose control. You could have you blood glucose measure at 300 after a meal, but once the pancreas starts pumping out the insulin it could drop rapidly to 30-40. That can be happening multiple times a day and the A1C be <5 . Diagnostically that will have you a non-diabetic, but you still have dangerous blood sugar swings and the same health consequences that diabetics do.
My head went that way too, but there’s no way she could do the Optifast diet or any other meal replacement option. She wouldn’t last a day on it.
In the US, but that’s not universal. Optifast in Australia is over the counter at every chemist in the country. It’s brutal though, and tastes like shit. There’s heaps tastier meal replacement programs, and they aren’t as expensive. I’ve tried quite a few of them (including Optifast) from when I’ve done hiking/canoeing holidays. They’re nutritiously sound, pre measured (if you get the sachets) don’t require refrigeration, light and easy to carry. All you need is water to mix the shakes, and you don’t even need that if you take the bars or biscuits. For those interested, Isowhey is the one I prefer, and I’ve tried lots. Not sure if it’s an Australia only one though.
Meal replacement programs are cheap AF off the shelf from chemists. Guaranteed they’d have non-prescription ones available in pharmacies and health stores in Kuwait as well as the rest of the world. They may even sell certain brands in the supermarkets there.
If Chantals local mosque had a built-in mcdonalds, she would be praying every single day-no doubt.
