A little help please!!

Hi akelarules,

It depends on whether the readings you have been taking are before or after food. If before food then they are well into the diabetic range and vindicate your nurse's decision. If they are around an hour after food then they are normal to slightly high non-diabetic. If two or more hours after eating then again they are too high and would indicate diabetes.

Hi K,

Morning readings of between 7.8 and 11 before you have eaten are very high and very likely to be diabetes. The reason why your blood sugar level has gone up during the night is because while we are asleep, our livers produce additional glucose to keep us going during the night when no food is being taken on board. This is a perfectly normal body function and in a non-diabetic person their natural insulin production will deal with this so that the BS level on rising is not tremendously different from that at going to bed.

The fact that yours is much higher in the morning is another possible indicator of diabetes, because the night-time rise in blood sugar it seems is not being adequately dealt with by your insulin production.

I imagine that this is probably not what you wanted to hear, but if the extra tests your nurse is arranging do show diabetes, then let us know and we will soon have you in control of your blood sugar again.

Obviously your nurse knows more than your doctor! Even if your numbers come back as "not diabetic" you are already showing signs of what is called "metabolic syndrome", I predict your cholesterol will be low HDL, high LDL and sky high trigs with a side order of high blood pressure.

Have a read round here

http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/10/d-day.html

then look through the Stickies and Success Stories for more sources of information

Skin infections, poor healing and preipheral neuropathy can all start to happen at prediabetic levels

BUT they can all be controlled and in many cases reversed