Hello everyone,
I am posting this thread here because I feel like I am getting no support from my loved ones. I had a few questions that I was hoping some of you experienced with diabetes could help answer. I recently went to the doctor due to allergies, and she gave me an A1C (I think?) test which came out at 5.6%, and then 2 weeks later she did another at 5.8%. She said I was not yet prediabetic but that she wanted me to cut carbs, watch what I eat and try shedding a few pounds (I'm currently 253 and 25 years old). I have incorporated the new diet into my lifestyle and am working out 20-30 minutes a day most days of the week. It's only been a week since I began my diet, and I know things won't change over night, but I can't help but constantly fear that I may have been misdiagnosed and do indeed have prediabetes or early type 2.
The reason I think this is because when I am fasting my BG level is 91. My wife (who is also obese and working on it) is usually between 100-103 when fasting. So we both decided to eat a sub from Subway (it's got a good amount of carbs, figured I'd give it a shot) and test our blood sugar levels 2-3 hours after. So after 2 hours, my BG was 126, hers was 111. 3 hours later mine was 119, hers was back to normal. 4 hours after the meal, I am still at 107. So my concern is why her fasting level is higher than mine, but her spike drops much quicker, and mine seems to stick around for many hours afterward. We didn't have the same sub, hers was loaded with veggies whereas mine was mustard, mayo, lettuce, tomatoe, and jalapenos.
So is it at all normal for some peoples BG to stay slightly elevated after eating and then slowly go back to fasting level, or is this a sign of prediabetes? I don't mean to come off as ungrateful as I know many of the users on this forum suffer from much worse levels of diabetes than what I am currently going through, my grandmother went through it. (She is the only one in our family who had T2D, no one else that I know of ever suffered from it). I was just hoping to get some advice and support because this situation has taken a toll on my family to the degree that my wife and I are fighting daily because of how distant and distracted I have been because of the stress from all of this.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you all so much,
- Logan
I am posting this thread here because I feel like I am getting no support from my loved ones. I had a few questions that I was hoping some of you experienced with diabetes could help answer. I recently went to the doctor due to allergies, and she gave me an A1C (I think?) test which came out at 5.6%, and then 2 weeks later she did another at 5.8%. She said I was not yet prediabetic but that she wanted me to cut carbs, watch what I eat and try shedding a few pounds (I'm currently 253 and 25 years old). I have incorporated the new diet into my lifestyle and am working out 20-30 minutes a day most days of the week. It's only been a week since I began my diet, and I know things won't change over night, but I can't help but constantly fear that I may have been misdiagnosed and do indeed have prediabetes or early type 2.
The reason I think this is because when I am fasting my BG level is 91. My wife (who is also obese and working on it) is usually between 100-103 when fasting. So we both decided to eat a sub from Subway (it's got a good amount of carbs, figured I'd give it a shot) and test our blood sugar levels 2-3 hours after. So after 2 hours, my BG was 126, hers was 111. 3 hours later mine was 119, hers was back to normal. 4 hours after the meal, I am still at 107. So my concern is why her fasting level is higher than mine, but her spike drops much quicker, and mine seems to stick around for many hours afterward. We didn't have the same sub, hers was loaded with veggies whereas mine was mustard, mayo, lettuce, tomatoe, and jalapenos.
So is it at all normal for some peoples BG to stay slightly elevated after eating and then slowly go back to fasting level, or is this a sign of prediabetes? I don't mean to come off as ungrateful as I know many of the users on this forum suffer from much worse levels of diabetes than what I am currently going through, my grandmother went through it. (She is the only one in our family who had T2D, no one else that I know of ever suffered from it). I was just hoping to get some advice and support because this situation has taken a toll on my family to the degree that my wife and I are fighting daily because of how distant and distracted I have been because of the stress from all of this.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you all so much,
- Logan
