Hi all. Although I am not as yet officially diagnosed with anything, I thought that I would give you an update and see if anyone has any views.
I've had two blood tests HbA1c that have come out at 6.2, I have also suffered over the past year with intermittent blurred vision, excessive thirst and total chronic fatigue after eating what seemed like a perfectly normal dinner (normal for a permantly dieting non-diabetic that is). I am 5'4" and 54Kg, so not particularly huge. After the first test that came back as 6.2 I cut out all obvious sugar. Three months later I had another test with the same result, after which I began to really look more closely at what I was eating and have reduced my carbs by 30-50%, so now have about 60-90 gms carbs a day. Normal day would be greek yog for breakfast, meat, lots of low carb veg, plus small (and I do mean small) helping of either spud or rice, for dinner midday, then possibly low carb crackers and egg or something similar for tea.
Been testing fairly regularly for the past month, was quite surprised when 2 slices of toast and 2 poached eggs midday gave a 10 ! I know bread can put it up dramatically, but nevertheless I was surprised at the increase.
I have today finally managed to get a morning reading down to 5.5 - feel fantastic, clear head, loads of energy etc. not felt this good for years ! (its usually up to 8 or more by bedtime and only drops a bit overnight)
But I feel very divided in response to the results. If everything is normal then surely I shouldn't be getting low teens on something fairly ordinary? If my blood test tomorrow comes back as normal it will be all too easy to fall into denial and pretend that everything is hunky dory, which as its taken a month of quite hard work to get to 5.5 (most readings were in the 6.6-10 range) I presume that it isn't!
So I feel as though I should have perhaps eaten normally for the past 3 months (normal by most ordinary folks standard would have seen me pile on Kgs like no tomorrow), got a high reading, then at least my doctor would feel more inclined to monitor. If I get a normal result, should I ask for a glucose tolerance test - would it be worthwhile? I do not particularly wish to be diagnosed as pre- or diabetic, but I do feel as though something is definitely not quite as it should be and would really like to get to the bottom of it.
I've had two blood tests HbA1c that have come out at 6.2, I have also suffered over the past year with intermittent blurred vision, excessive thirst and total chronic fatigue after eating what seemed like a perfectly normal dinner (normal for a permantly dieting non-diabetic that is). I am 5'4" and 54Kg, so not particularly huge. After the first test that came back as 6.2 I cut out all obvious sugar. Three months later I had another test with the same result, after which I began to really look more closely at what I was eating and have reduced my carbs by 30-50%, so now have about 60-90 gms carbs a day. Normal day would be greek yog for breakfast, meat, lots of low carb veg, plus small (and I do mean small) helping of either spud or rice, for dinner midday, then possibly low carb crackers and egg or something similar for tea.
Been testing fairly regularly for the past month, was quite surprised when 2 slices of toast and 2 poached eggs midday gave a 10 ! I know bread can put it up dramatically, but nevertheless I was surprised at the increase.
I have today finally managed to get a morning reading down to 5.5 - feel fantastic, clear head, loads of energy etc. not felt this good for years ! (its usually up to 8 or more by bedtime and only drops a bit overnight)
But I feel very divided in response to the results. If everything is normal then surely I shouldn't be getting low teens on something fairly ordinary? If my blood test tomorrow comes back as normal it will be all too easy to fall into denial and pretend that everything is hunky dory, which as its taken a month of quite hard work to get to 5.5 (most readings were in the 6.6-10 range) I presume that it isn't!
So I feel as though I should have perhaps eaten normally for the past 3 months (normal by most ordinary folks standard would have seen me pile on Kgs like no tomorrow), got a high reading, then at least my doctor would feel more inclined to monitor. If I get a normal result, should I ask for a glucose tolerance test - would it be worthwhile? I do not particularly wish to be diagnosed as pre- or diabetic, but I do feel as though something is definitely not quite as it should be and would really like to get to the bottom of it.