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I'm a 30 year old slim female, relatively fit (could and will do more!) healthy and no family history of diabetes. Whilst in Australia last year I had some routine bloods which showed one issue-high insulin resistance. I was shocked - and just want to note i was also very stressed and homesick there. They put me on 1g metformin daily.
On arriving back to the UK, my GP said they don't prescribe metformin for pre-diabetes and plus she was skeptacle due to my frame and size-plus id lost the bit of healthy weight I had due to metformin and less food/increased exercise. I then fell pregnant and here I am 6 months later. (Ill post this in another section incase not the best place?). The diabetic midwife gave me a freestyle optimum finger prick test which I used whilst waiting for my gtt (2 hour fasting) and I always had normal fasting readings of 4, 1 hour after breakfast was between 6.5 and 9, (and back down to 6or5 two hours post breakfast) and lunch and dinner readings rarely went above 7.
Now-I tested myself during the gtt session also with my meter, fasting-4.2, 1 hour post glucose 11.3, 2 hours post glucose 8.2. HOWEVER I apparently passed the gtt test-fasting 3.9, 2 hours post was 6 (2.2 lower than meter). I was very concerned about my high readings especially the 1 hour one, however the specialist/endocronologist said to ignore the meter, im not diabetic and furthermore took me off my metformin. I have found that meter to give me higher readings than the bayer one at work, normally about 2.0 higher.
Could the metformin have affected my results? Am I right to just ignore that reading off 11 plus some post breakfast highs of 7/8? He also took the meter off me saying I didn't need it. I did have a hba1c done 4 months ago which was normal.
Thank you for reading
I'm a 30 year old slim female, relatively fit (could and will do more!) healthy and no family history of diabetes. Whilst in Australia last year I had some routine bloods which showed one issue-high insulin resistance. I was shocked - and just want to note i was also very stressed and homesick there. They put me on 1g metformin daily.On arriving back to the UK, my GP said they don't prescribe metformin for pre-diabetes and plus she was skeptacle due to my frame and size-plus id lost the bit of healthy weight I had due to metformin and less food/increased exercise. I then fell pregnant and here I am 6 months later. (Ill post this in another section incase not the best place?). The diabetic midwife gave me a freestyle optimum finger prick test which I used whilst waiting for my gtt (2 hour fasting) and I always had normal fasting readings of 4, 1 hour after breakfast was between 6.5 and 9, (and back down to 6or5 two hours post breakfast) and lunch and dinner readings rarely went above 7.
Now-I tested myself during the gtt session also with my meter, fasting-4.2, 1 hour post glucose 11.3, 2 hours post glucose 8.2. HOWEVER I apparently passed the gtt test-fasting 3.9, 2 hours post was 6 (2.2 lower than meter). I was very concerned about my high readings especially the 1 hour one, however the specialist/endocronologist said to ignore the meter, im not diabetic and furthermore took me off my metformin. I have found that meter to give me higher readings than the bayer one at work, normally about 2.0 higher.
Could the metformin have affected my results? Am I right to just ignore that reading off 11 plus some post breakfast highs of 7/8? He also took the meter off me saying I didn't need it. I did have a hba1c done 4 months ago which was normal.
Thank you for reading
