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<blockquote data-quote="Geordie_P" data-source="post: 1277005" data-attributes="member: 343949"><p>Hi friends,</p><p>I went to the doctor with sore feet about a month ago: turns out to be neuropathy of some sort. My fasting BG level (tested from a vein) was 13.2, triglycerides 32.7 (yes, really). Now, I went back 2 weeks later to discuss the results with the doctor, having cut out starch and alcohol for 2 weeks: he gave me a fasting finger prick test and it came out as 5.8. He told me to keep doing whatever I'm doing, and he'll give me another test in a couple of months. I got no diabetes meds, and I'm on one rosuvastatin a day for the triglycerides (which he said are the worst he has ever seen in his medical career)</p><p></p><p>Obviously, I need to act as if I am diabetic (type 2), and probably always will, but I'd appreciate any advice from those who've got a bit more experience of all this: </p><p>could I still be pre-diabetic? </p><p>Is the finger prick test just much less accurate than the vein and lab sample?</p><p>How long does it take to lower triglycerides? Oh, and just for the record, is 32.7 really the highest out there?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geordie_P, post: 1277005, member: 343949"] Hi friends, I went to the doctor with sore feet about a month ago: turns out to be neuropathy of some sort. My fasting BG level (tested from a vein) was 13.2, triglycerides 32.7 (yes, really). Now, I went back 2 weeks later to discuss the results with the doctor, having cut out starch and alcohol for 2 weeks: he gave me a fasting finger prick test and it came out as 5.8. He told me to keep doing whatever I'm doing, and he'll give me another test in a couple of months. I got no diabetes meds, and I'm on one rosuvastatin a day for the triglycerides (which he said are the worst he has ever seen in his medical career) Obviously, I need to act as if I am diabetic (type 2), and probably always will, but I'd appreciate any advice from those who've got a bit more experience of all this: could I still be pre-diabetic? Is the finger prick test just much less accurate than the vein and lab sample? How long does it take to lower triglycerides? Oh, and just for the record, is 32.7 really the highest out there? [/QUOTE]
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