what would you tell week-1 you about CGM
what would you tell week-1 you about CGM. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source. Panicked over a first-day sensor reading and rebuilt my week around it. It was the sensor. Brought the whole CGM export to my appointment rather than one number. Entirely different conversation. Assumed the…
Agreed. A1c is an integrated average over roughly three months and treating it as a current reading causes a lot of unnecessary alarm.
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nothing here replaces the person managing your diabetes
metformin and an incretin agonist are not in competition
Postprandial excursions typically respond earlier than fasting glucose, so the sequence people observe is not a sign that something is not working.
postprandial excursions are where most of the improvement shows up first
a1c can be affected by things that have nothing to do with glucose
Certain conditions affect A1c independently of glycaemia. If a result looks inconsistent with the sensor data, that is a question for whoever manages your care rather than for this board.
My hs-CRP moved and it turned out to have nothing to do with glucose at all.
the fasting number is the one people fixate on and it moves last
Kept fingersticks alongside the sensor for two weeks to sanity-check it. Worth doing once.
a1c can be affected by things that have nothing to do with glucose
Agreed, and the glucose-dependence point is the reason the risk profile reads the way it does.
Variability dropped before the average did, which was visible on the sensor and invisible on the lab result.