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<blockquote data-quote="erin40" data-source="post: 2352899" data-attributes="member: 533887"><p>I know. That's what I thought. It was 12.7 three hours post-prandial, and 11.5 four hours post-, which is almost a fasting glucose (fasting glucose is five hours or more without food). My endo strongly felt that it was a false positive, because I swung from low carb to high carb eating all of a sudden and then got that result. I understand the reasoning, but I don't think it accounts for the whole picture, because, for example, I cannot even eat 2 tbsps of oatmeal without feeling wired all day long.</p><p></p><p>But -- my hba1c was very low - 4.7, due to my diet. No weight loss, just a feeling of being hungry a lot of the time. My endo took my antibodies and they were negative, so there isn't really much I can do by way of figuring out a diagnosis unless I want to do the OGTT. (It's definitely not T2D because my insulin level is low.) The thing is though, I don't really need to know at the moment. I could push it (request more antibody testing), if I wanted to try an early intervention treatment for T1D like low dose insulin. But I don't really want this, at least, not enough to push strongly for it, and my endo is not in favour. And I'm actually feeling all right at the moment. So, I am basically in agreement with her suggestion to just keep doing what I'm doing with the low carb diet. I would like more clarity, and it's a weird position to be in, and I disagree with her assessment that I don't have a problem. But I agree with her suggestion just to continue doing what I'm doing, so, in the end, for the time being, it comes out as a wash.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="erin40, post: 2352899, member: 533887"] I know. That's what I thought. It was 12.7 three hours post-prandial, and 11.5 four hours post-, which is almost a fasting glucose (fasting glucose is five hours or more without food). My endo strongly felt that it was a false positive, because I swung from low carb to high carb eating all of a sudden and then got that result. I understand the reasoning, but I don't think it accounts for the whole picture, because, for example, I cannot even eat 2 tbsps of oatmeal without feeling wired all day long. But -- my hba1c was very low - 4.7, due to my diet. No weight loss, just a feeling of being hungry a lot of the time. My endo took my antibodies and they were negative, so there isn't really much I can do by way of figuring out a diagnosis unless I want to do the OGTT. (It's definitely not T2D because my insulin level is low.) The thing is though, I don't really need to know at the moment. I could push it (request more antibody testing), if I wanted to try an early intervention treatment for T1D like low dose insulin. But I don't really want this, at least, not enough to push strongly for it, and my endo is not in favour. And I'm actually feeling all right at the moment. So, I am basically in agreement with her suggestion to just keep doing what I'm doing with the low carb diet. I would like more clarity, and it's a weird position to be in, and I disagree with her assessment that I don't have a problem. But I agree with her suggestion just to continue doing what I'm doing, so, in the end, for the time being, it comes out as a wash. [/QUOTE]
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