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Philip - Interview 15  

Philip - Interview 15

Age at Interview: 81
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 72
Background: Philip is a retired senior sales engineer and is married with two adult children. Ethnic background/Nationality: White English.
Brief outline:Philip was diagnosed with diabetes nine years ago when he was hospitalised after a heart attack. He was put straight onto insulin.

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Philip says that it is impossible to fool the HbA1c test.

 



The HBA1c of course when you have that done, that gives a long-term recording of what your blood sugars have been, and this something you can't hide from them. You can hide tests, I mean you can say “I'll test at this time and I know it will only be that”, you know, but if you are over or under, you can sort of say, “Well I can test now and all those tests will say I am at this particular point, which will look good”, but the HbA1c you can't. You can't organise or sort or do what you like, they'll know what you have done when you have that blood check.

So you know it's you have got, if you go every 12 months of course it means that you can do what you like for 9 months and then the other 3 months you have got to be careful, but you don't do that, because it is really about 12 weeks that they can look back on when they look back at the HbA1c. But if you're sensible you wouldn't try to - well you've got to look after yourself.
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