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Proxyon

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Hi there everyone.

I have decided to register to this forum because I see quite many people sharing information and helping each other.

I am 37 years old, white male, non-smoker, normal BMI, non-smoker, non-drinker, when I had blood tests in the past, blood sugar was always about 3.8 mmol/l. My father passed away 3 months ago due to diabetes complications. He had Type 2 diabetes for over 15 years.

Here is my concern. Yesterday I checked my blood sugar (venous in lab) after fasting for about 12-13 hours and it was 5.14 mmol/l. That looked pretty high considering my previous blood check in June which was 3.8 mmol/l. Today I repeated the test in another lab and the result was even higher – 5.55 mmol/l. That scares me a lot because I think I could be prediabetic. Since my father’s death I’ve had a lot of stress and I’ve been not very physically active. I just ride a bike for about 30 minutes a day and that is all. I also have high cholesterol – total: 6.2 mmol/l, HDL 1.6 mmol/l, LDL 4.2 mmol/l. Tryglycerides are in the normal range. Feeling motivated to reduce my cholesterol levels I’ve been taking 1 mg krill oil during the last month and skipping meals and starving, just eating once a day usually at evening time. I know now it was a mistake, I hope it is not too late.

Questions:

1. Based on the numbers and history I give you do you think I am prediabetic?

2. Even if I am prediabetic do I have a chance to constantly return my blood sugar numbers at their normal range?

3. Is it possible due to continuous starvation and meal skips to actually have high levels of blood sugar in the morning?

Thanks a lot in advance for the answers.
 
Proxyon said:
Questions:

1. Based on the numbers and history I give you do you think I am prediabetic?

2. Even if I am prediabetic do I have a chance to constantly return my blood sugar numbers at their normal range?

3. Is it possible due to continuous starvation and meal skips to actually have high levels of blood sugar in the morning?
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We can't tell you if you have pre-diabetes. If you are concerned, which obviously you are, then you need to go to a doctor and ask for the HbA1c test.

If you were pre-diabetic, then you have every chance in the world to reduce your numbers to the normal range.

Fasting blood sugar levels are notoriously unreliable. There are very many factors involved. This is why doctors no longer diagnose diabetes this way. They use the HbA1c test. (or sometimes an oral glucose tolerance test - OGTT)
 
Thanks for the prompr replies.

I am certainly going to test my blood sugar with the HbA1c test. I just can't understand how could I jump from 3.8 to 5.5 in a matter of 2 months. Unbelievable.
I intend not to skip breakfast or lunch as I used to. What kind of physical activity would you recommend? I know walking is OK. How about running? How long does it take to see numbers stabilize? A week, a month, a year?
 
@Proxyon Do get an HbA1C as advised above.

There are a number of reasons why your result could have gone up. Blood sugar does fluctuate and go up and down within the normal range. Such variations aren't cause for concern if they're the natural fluctuation within the range of normal blood sugars.
 
Proxyon said:
Hi there everyone.

I have decided to register to this forum because I see quite many people sharing information and helping each other.

I am 37 years old, white male, non-smoker, normal BMI, non-smoker, non-drinker, when I had blood tests in the past, blood sugar was always about 3.8 mmol/l. My father passed away 3 months ago due to diabetes complications. He had Type 2 diabetes for over 15 years.

Here is my concern. Yesterday I checked my blood sugar (venous in lab) after fasting for about 12-13 hours and it was 5.14 mmol/l. That looked pretty high considering my previous blood check in June which was 3.8 mmol/l. Today I repeated the test in another lab and the result was even higher – 5.55 mmol/l. That scares me a lot because I think I could be prediabetic. Since my father’s death I’ve had a lot of stress and I’ve been not very physically active. I just ride a bike for about 30 minutes a day and that is all. I also have high cholesterol – total: 6.2 mmol/l, HDL 1.6 mmol/l, LDL 4.2 mmol/l. Tryglycerides are in the normal range. Feeling motivated to reduce my cholesterol levels I’ve been taking 1 mg krill oil during the last month and skipping meals and starving, just eating once a day usually at evening time. I know now it was a mistake, I hope it is not too late.

Questions:

1. Based on the numbers and history I give you do you think I am prediabetic?

2. Even if I am prediabetic do I have a chance to constantly return my blood sugar numbers at their normal range?

3. Is it possible due to continuous starvation and meal skips to actually have high levels of blood sugar in the morning?

Thanks a lot in advance for the answers.
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Pre-diabetic is as useful a diagnosis as, say, pre-heartattack. It's meanigless. Tens of thousands of people have been worried needlessly by this doomsday diagnosis based on what? Have you actually got any supposed symptoms? Probably not. Please remember and take on board that the 'diagnosis' of T2 is nothing more than a line on a probability graph, the position of aforementioned line decided by a committee.
 
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