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guest5234

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solihull
Type of diabetes
Prediabetes
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Diet only
I have not been diagnosed as being diabetic but had a glucose test on my annual blood tests. Was a Firefighter for 20 years but have never been so stressed.
I have massive white coat syndrome and the thought of having by blood tests sent my heart racing and stomach into knots (only had this fear the last 12 months).
Had a fasting blood test and the hba1c blood test. The hbac1 test was 5.5% but the fasting blood was 8. Is there a possibility the huge stress I was feeling caused a spike in my blood sugar? Cheers guys and gals.

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guest5234 said:
I have not been diagnosed as being diabetic but had a glucose test on my annual blood tests. Was a Firefighter for 20 years but have never been so stressed.
I have massive white coat syndrome and the thought of having by blood tests sent my heart racing and stomach into knots (only had this fear the last 12 months).
Had a fasting blood test and the hba1c blood test. The hbac1 test was 5.5% but the fasting blood was 8. Is there a possibility the huge stress I was feeling caused a spike in my blood sugar? Cheers guys and gals.

Last edited: 20 minutes ago
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Stress can certainly alter bgl readings, but usually it is when the stress is prolonged. I doubt that white coat syndrome would spike a fasting bgl result. However, your HbA1c is reasonably low, and this represents you average bgl levels over the past 3 months, so the fasting result you have may be transitory. Did you have a drink before the test, i.e tea with milk? That would skew the result. Any carb ingested after your last meal the previous night could affect the result, especially if it was also high fat.
 
Thanks oldvatr, I had a lot of stress in the weeks before the tests, I had a friend do a test on his meter before going to the doctor to try and reassure myself as test results take 3 days to come back, I was very stressed and it was 7, this stressed me more and I had the test at the doctors half and hour later and it was 8, this got me wondering if stress is indeed spiking my sugars.
 
Indeed, stress will spike your blood sugars and show up on a test, as can other factors beyond our control such as too much protein the previous day (not fat), restless night, and the natural liver dumps we have to put up with when fasting. I wouldn't be worrying abut it. Your HbA1c was perfect.
 
guest5234 said:
Thanks what a great beautiful bunch you are .
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Just as well we don't always use our proper pictures as avatars.

Welcome to the forum and thanks for being a firefighter all those years, it's appreciated. It's interesting when you mentioned white coat syndrome and how stress has affected you more in the last year. Have you retired or changed jobs recently? Although a different situation, the principle might be the same, while my mother was alive and in her care home (vascular dementia) it's almost as if my dad could only stress about mum, after her death he's panicking about the smallest of things in his own life, stuff that shouldn't matter. I think we might all be the same,

The numbers you mention don't look awful but maybe you might like to get a BG meter, they're fairly cheap. There's a website somewhere that does a "go compare" job on the "consumables" that you might like to look at before making a purchase of the actual meter.

Perhaps you might like to look at your carb intake, I'm assuming that as a firefighter you're generally fit and healthy and eat well. You will have noticed on this forum that most people keep an eye on their carb intake. I certainly benefited tremendously just by cutting out spuds/rice/bread/pasta, some might call that extreme but I threw out 3 different meds and avoided insulin, so for me, a no brainer.

All the very best

Graham
 
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