Can I start by saying I really like Gezza?
I think others might be a little sore about their diabetes going unnoticed for a long time, if like me, they routinely show/ed numbers much higher than yours and felt neglected by doctors or wondered how long they were in the impaired glucose tolerance area. This thread brings up the issue of where exactly the cutoff points for diagnosis of diabetes should be. What is 'normal'? Or why is 10.9 ok and no one cares unless it's 11?
Also the point of testing every 15 minutes or so during a OGTT- how many people routinely go into the teens and are told nothing is wrong until complications start? Honestly? How many people have a normal fasting and normal after 2 hours are on the way downhill and the doctor sees no reason to check In between?
That's just the conclusion I came to. Those who are struggling with high numbers might feel 'trivialised' by someone managing normal numbers and when I first came across you my replies did sound sort of 'if I'm not diabetic how are you?!' or 'are you even diabetic??!'
But really we should all be aiming for where you are instead of shooting you down; maintaining normal range.
That's what we all want.
Interestingly, I quite like the taste of the new Lucozade but on my own home GTT it DID NOT spike my blood sugar. Grape juice did with 15.4 @ 30-40 minutes, weetabix and banana with 16.4 @ 30-40 minutes, but oddly enough, Lucozade only took me to 9.5 at a full hour the back to normal (7-6.5) over the next hour. numbers that wouldn't bother my GP, being under 11
Weird.
But anyway, thank goodness you didn't down a litre @_@
Whatever you are doing to produce the day to day readings you do is working and hope to follow you to your level of success. Guess we have to replace cynicism with curiosity?
Keep at it Gezza. Hope that test didn't make you feel too awful xxx He's a miracle, people.
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