Hi! I'm new to this thing but I've been reading here for a while now.
I have diabetes and I'm just 20 years old. I currently weight 80 kilogram and my height is 5'10. I'm not obese, I'm just on the higher side of normal.
About 3-4 months ago I started to see ants on my toilet bowl and that freaked me out. I immediately stopped drinking cola's and energy drinks. I've been drinking a lot of gatorade at that time as it's very hot in my country and I thought that gatorade would be good for me (I'm so wrong about this).
After the ant incident I waited about 3-4 weeks before getting before getting my fasting blood sugar tested at a pharmacy and it came back 146 mg/dl, I freaked out. I came back again the next day and same result. After that I was in full panicked mode and very anxious. 3 or so days after I decided to go to a different pharmacy to have another test and it came back 116 mg/dl, still very high but much lower than the previous ones. So I entered another session of rabit holling at that time and learned as much as I could
I've finally told my parents about the ant incident and the blood sugar tests I've done. They told me the our family has no history of diabetes, the closest history is my grandma's sisters having T2s, grandma has none. They told me to stop eating sugary foods and lessen my food intake.
1 and a half months later I finally got tested for my HBa1c and it came back 6.50% which is the cut off for diagnosis. We told my doc about it and she decided not to put me on meds since it's still on the border of diagnosis and I have no symptoms, she said I could still lower it with diet. My urinalysis also came back having trace of albumin and no sugar, WBC is 12-14 hpf (which I think is high?) I have no fever so my doc also didn't prescribe me antibiotics which I think is weird...
Since then I've been testing myseld using a meter (some says my meter is inaccurate) but can't confirm. I've also been experimenting on what food I can eat and not spike my blood sugar levels. If I eat rice (staple food here) I could easily go 10 mmol/l. I don't eat it anymore. I now can only eat fish and vegetables or meat but I have to eat a lot of proteins. It's been hard.
I decided today to eat 2 small hamburgers and stir fried bitter gourd with egg just to test what my blood sugar could be. My blood sugar at 1 hour is 8.9 mmol/l 2 hours at 9.9 and 3 hours at 10.1. Before eating that my blood sugar is at 5.2 mmol/l (3 hours before eating) my morning BG is is 5.8. My question is why is my blood sugar not peaking at 1-2 hours but it seems it's still going up?
Yesterday my blood sugar range is 5.3 to 6.5.
I have diabetes and I'm just 20 years old. I currently weight 80 kilogram and my height is 5'10. I'm not obese, I'm just on the higher side of normal.
About 3-4 months ago I started to see ants on my toilet bowl and that freaked me out. I immediately stopped drinking cola's and energy drinks. I've been drinking a lot of gatorade at that time as it's very hot in my country and I thought that gatorade would be good for me (I'm so wrong about this).
After the ant incident I waited about 3-4 weeks before getting before getting my fasting blood sugar tested at a pharmacy and it came back 146 mg/dl, I freaked out. I came back again the next day and same result. After that I was in full panicked mode and very anxious. 3 or so days after I decided to go to a different pharmacy to have another test and it came back 116 mg/dl, still very high but much lower than the previous ones. So I entered another session of rabit holling at that time and learned as much as I could
I've finally told my parents about the ant incident and the blood sugar tests I've done. They told me the our family has no history of diabetes, the closest history is my grandma's sisters having T2s, grandma has none. They told me to stop eating sugary foods and lessen my food intake.
1 and a half months later I finally got tested for my HBa1c and it came back 6.50% which is the cut off for diagnosis. We told my doc about it and she decided not to put me on meds since it's still on the border of diagnosis and I have no symptoms, she said I could still lower it with diet. My urinalysis also came back having trace of albumin and no sugar, WBC is 12-14 hpf (which I think is high?) I have no fever so my doc also didn't prescribe me antibiotics which I think is weird...
Since then I've been testing myseld using a meter (some says my meter is inaccurate) but can't confirm. I've also been experimenting on what food I can eat and not spike my blood sugar levels. If I eat rice (staple food here) I could easily go 10 mmol/l. I don't eat it anymore. I now can only eat fish and vegetables or meat but I have to eat a lot of proteins. It's been hard.
I decided today to eat 2 small hamburgers and stir fried bitter gourd with egg just to test what my blood sugar could be. My blood sugar at 1 hour is 8.9 mmol/l 2 hours at 9.9 and 3 hours at 10.1. Before eating that my blood sugar is at 5.2 mmol/l (3 hours before eating) my morning BG is is 5.8. My question is why is my blood sugar not peaking at 1-2 hours but it seems it's still going up?
Yesterday my blood sugar range is 5.3 to 6.5.