“I was prescribed the wrong thing.” How to make sure your blood sugar is going down – doctors don't like to prescribe this test – Health

Patients diagnosed with diabetes sometimes do not benefit from diet or medication. They may turn out to be right, although it happens that they are overcome by a subjective feeling. How to check: is blood sugar decreasing? What is needed is not a glucometer, which shows scattered values, Sports.kz reports with reference to Hibiny.ru.

““They prescribed me the wrong thing”: How to make sure that blood sugar is decreasing – doctors don’t like to prescribe this test,” reads the title of an article on the website Hibiny.ru.

Endocrinologist Olga Pavlova spoke in her professional blog about an analysis that is rarely prescribed to patients.

To understand whether treatment or a food diet has begun to work to lower blood sugar, you need to know your fructosamine level. This will be shown by a blood test from a vein.

Fructosamine shows the average blood sugar level…