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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2752860" data-attributes="member: 517579">As others have said, there's no diagnosing here. I have to say though that "pre-diabetes" isn't a disease and isn't technically a diagnosis. It's a description. In the UK it would be applied to anyone with an HbA1c of 42mmol/mol or above and under 48. At a  confirmed 48 and above you would get an automatic Type 2 diabetes diagnosis. So on the basis of your HbA1c results you would not be pre-diabetic, let alone diabetic. The problem with doing fingerprick tests is that blood glucose can be affected by so many other things than food. You describe a raft of other factors any and all of which have the potential to shift BG levels up and down as your liver responds to them .  Blood glucose levels in people without diabetes vary all the time, in response to food and other stimuli. They're not "flat". The issue for those of us with Type 2 is reducing elevated BGs over time, because of the physical damage persistent high BG can cause. This short paper shows the variability in BG levels (measured by Constant Glucose Monitor) in a number of non-diabetic people (the paper calls them "healthy" but in this context that only means "non-diabetic") in response to food (in this case) . The paper was sponsored by the CGM manufacturer because there was a lack of knowledge about what "normal" blood glucose looked like from a CGM user perspective.[URL unfurl="true"]https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2769652/[/URL]In other words, you've got enough to be dealing with. Your blood glucose regulation doesn't seem to be something to be added to that list.</blockquote>

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