What to bring to a diabetes appointment

Appointments are short, so the most useful thing you can bring is a clear summary rather than raw screenshots: your time in range and average over the last few months, an estimated A1C, your weight trend, your current medications and doses, and any questions written down before you forget them.

If you're on a GLP-1 or insulin, a dose and titration history is especially valuable: it tells your clinician what you've actually taken and how your numbers responded. Notes on side effects or patterns you've noticed (after-meal highs, overnight lows) help direct the conversation.

SteadyRange can assemble a pre-visit summary and a private, read-only report link you can share with your care team (no account needed on their end). This is general information to help you prepare, not medical advice.

If the visit includes fasting bloodwork, the number is only as good as the morning behind it. Fast for 8 to 12 hours, water only: coffee, juice, gum, and mints all count as breaking it, and fasting much beyond 12 hours can nudge glucose up as the liver starts releasing its own. Keep taking prescribed medicine unless your clinician has said otherwise, but ask about pausing biotin and most other supplements for about three days beforehand, since biotin can distort several common lab assays. Drink a glass or two of water that morning, skip strenuous exercise the day before, and sit for a few minutes before the draw rather than arriving at a jog.

Two questions are worth writing at the bottom of your list every year: is my dilated eye exam due, and has my foot check happened this year? Add a note for the clinician if you have noticed new numbness or tingling in your feet, pain at night, or a sore that is slow to heal. None of those is something to diagnose at home; all of them are exactly the kind of early signal an annual visit exists to catch.