Hi all,
A couple months ago I made a post here regarding some concern I had that I might be pre-diabetic, type 2 diabetes runs rife in the family and usually we get it ages 20-30 (I've just turned 23).
Over the past couple of months, I've taken morning fasting glucose tests in controlled environments, my morning blood glucose hovers between 6 mmol/L and 6.4 mmol/L which according to various sources is pre diabetic.
I've also done 16 hour fasting sessions ( as part of diet) and my blood glucose comes back at around 6.4 mmol/L.
I went to my GP who was hesitant to give me an A1c test as I am 'young' and 'fit', but I persisted as I would rather act sooner than later. The A1c test result came back as 33 (sorry unsure of units) which the GP said is fine and asked that I do not track my blood glucose again.
I've also done 2 hour blood glucose tests before and after eating, the results are usually within 1mmol/L (today it was 6.4 mmol/L before eating and 7.2mmol/L after 2 hours since eating)
So I'm just really unsure of what to do now, I've looked up dawn phenomenon, and that would make sense right after waking up, however I've had much larger fasting sessions than 8 hours and it still comes up above 6 mmol/L.
In any case I still feel like my blood glucose is creeping up, despite my GP saying I have nothing to worry about. And I just wanted some opinions from the lovely people here, unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a lot of information out there regarding something like this, so any advice or wisdom is much appreciated.
I'm using a glucolab finger prick test for my fasting BG levels.
Edit: might also be worth saying that I used the controlled solution for the glucolab meter and it came back as 5.4 mmol/L which is in the 'normal' category, so it should be working?
Thanks
A couple months ago I made a post here regarding some concern I had that I might be pre-diabetic, type 2 diabetes runs rife in the family and usually we get it ages 20-30 (I've just turned 23).
Over the past couple of months, I've taken morning fasting glucose tests in controlled environments, my morning blood glucose hovers between 6 mmol/L and 6.4 mmol/L which according to various sources is pre diabetic.
I've also done 16 hour fasting sessions ( as part of diet) and my blood glucose comes back at around 6.4 mmol/L.
I went to my GP who was hesitant to give me an A1c test as I am 'young' and 'fit', but I persisted as I would rather act sooner than later. The A1c test result came back as 33 (sorry unsure of units) which the GP said is fine and asked that I do not track my blood glucose again.
I've also done 2 hour blood glucose tests before and after eating, the results are usually within 1mmol/L (today it was 6.4 mmol/L before eating and 7.2mmol/L after 2 hours since eating)
So I'm just really unsure of what to do now, I've looked up dawn phenomenon, and that would make sense right after waking up, however I've had much larger fasting sessions than 8 hours and it still comes up above 6 mmol/L.
In any case I still feel like my blood glucose is creeping up, despite my GP saying I have nothing to worry about. And I just wanted some opinions from the lovely people here, unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a lot of information out there regarding something like this, so any advice or wisdom is much appreciated.
I'm using a glucolab finger prick test for my fasting BG levels.
Edit: might also be worth saying that I used the controlled solution for the glucolab meter and it came back as 5.4 mmol/L which is in the 'normal' category, so it should be working?
Thanks
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