can eating too much sugar give a false diabetic reading

Hi loiseb,
A non diabetic could eat the sugary things you describe with no adverse effects but if they continued eating junk foods and sugary items then they may well become a diabetic later.

You have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes which means that you are on the cusp of becoming a diabetic and you now have a chance to turn things around by eating healthily, losing weight if you have to and doing some exercise. It does not mean that you will not develop diabetes later but you can reverse an earlier diagnosis by doing all these things. With your family having several members with diabetes then your risk is high.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/pre-diabetes-faqs.html

louiseb said:

well the thing is I ate a bar of chocolate the other night and had a can of coke as I just wanted to see what it did to my blood sugar levels it went up to 10.8 after 2 hours and after fasting overnight it was 7.8 in the morning which is the range for being diagnosed diabetic.
when I eat very healthy my fasting sugar level is about 6.

so does this mean I might have diabetes or it just because I ate too much sugar?

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An Hb1Ac test gives a result of what your BG levels have been over the previous 2-3 months. A fasting BG level first thing in the morning gives a different result. It is not an average result. Considering you had a coke and chocolate the previous night, it may have taken longer for your BG to return to normal fasting levels.
If you are concerned I would speak to your GP or the practice nurse.

louiseb said:

ok I had a a glucose tolerance test at my doctors a few weeks ago the results were as follows.
fasting 6.2
2 hour after glucose 10.4

so does this mean I might have diabeties or it just because I ate too much sugar

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As I mentioned in your other thread of messages, with those OGTT and fasting numbers, you are perilously close to diabetes anyway - one school of thought (that I certainly believe) is that pre-diabetics like you and I should live our lives as a diabetic *should* do anyway, even without waiting for a formal diagnosis of full diabetes.

Your symptoms and family history combined make it very important that you treat this very seriously.

Whether you have had the odd extra sugary drink and bar of chocolate doesn't really matter, I would say, but yes - in answer to your specific question, sorry to say, but I think you are getting very close to diabetes, even if not quite there yet.

Obviously your medical practitioner is the person to make diagnoses and offer formal advice, answers you will get on this forum - like this one - are largely drawn from members own experience and not from *your* specific circumstances.

My advice would be to read all the dietary advice you will see here on the forum and - if you are at all overweight - try your hardest to lose the pounds.

There are several formal clinical studies that found losing even as little as 10% of your body weight (assuming you are overweight, of course) can reduce the chances of pre-diabetes progressing to full diabetes by something like 40% - that makes it well worth the effort.

My doc went further and started me on low dose Metformin for a few months while I got the weight off, hoping to spare the beta cells in my pancreas from being too heavily loaded. Seems to have worked for me, but again, you really need a fully qualified medical opinion to determine the best direction for *you*.

In the meantime, you might like to read this article 'Stopping prediabetes in its tracks':

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3341560/

Mark.