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The tests show your fasting glucose is good, but you could still have impaired glucose tolerance. Two ways to test for IGT are by using a glucometer after meals, or the HbA1C. I think that as a group, people who had hyperglycaemia but have reverted it, and are keeping watch, have lower risks...

My goodness, you will have to ask them if they have taken the step changes (speaking mathematically) in iron into consideration when conducting A1c tests. If you had the opposite condition -- haemochromatosis -- the A1c couldn't be used. Haemochromatosis is an excess of iron, and a major...

Wow, in 6 days. Congratulations for holding off on the metformin! I was once told, "you have diabetes" by a nurse on the basis of my A1c. I googled furiously and realized that I was nondiabetic by a heap of test results, except for that one. Recent medical distress had suspiciously coincided...

The backs of the first and second joints of the fingers. Not right at the knuckles. In addition, some lancets, as mentioned above, support alternate sites on the palm, arms, or legs. Look up specifications online to see which body portions that model can use.

Confusing, indeed. Plasma glucose is something like 12% higher than whole blood. Your FPG from the lab was 5.0. The lab numbers have more weight, fortunately! Capillary glucose measurements (eg, fingersticks) are usually higher than lab FPG. I have read more than once that the difference is...

In my reply, regarding the loss of incretin effect: actually, those drugs are prescribed for Type 2's, not Type 1's. Is that because Type 1's produce little to no insulin, so that there's nothing to stimulate? I meant to highlight that the digestive process has many modules and and an intricate...

Here's an article which suggests that one cause of wide glucose variability in Type 1 patients is gastroparesis. Gastroparesis, a result of diabetic neuropathy, is one of the complications of the disease. "People with [gastroparesis] may have problems synchronizing insulin dosing with the...

The original poster's question is intriguing. But it didn't say when was the most recent home fingerstick before the lab fasting glucose measurement. To ensure accurate measurement, first rinse the skin well. Just by touching a banana skin, for example, you could pick up enough sugar to spoil...

Don't just use the underside of the finger. Dr. Richard K. Bernstein advises that the best site to poke is the back of the hand. http://www.diabetes-book.com/measure-blood-sugar/ (Dr. Bernstein, who is still alive and practicing, has been Type 1 since the end of World War 2. He is also an MD...

Of course there's going to be further autoimmune attack.

Try googling immunological insulin resistance.

Wow, you are stout hearted to bear all this. There is a Type 3c forum here, too. If you go to "Forums" in the menu bar, you can find it. That young people don't get this kind of cancer. Of course, almost never. Almost! One famous young woman victim was author Lorraine Hansberry. She was on...

why stop chocolate? :confused:

Theoretically, no. Speaking of T1, theory would have to change in order for there to be hope of recovering or regaining some beta cell function.

Because there are two aspects to excessive glucose: before a meal, and once eating or drinking starts. A person can have disparity between the two -- they are not expected to be on a par. It's possible to be too high in either one or in both. By "average BG test" it's not certain that you...