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<blockquote data-quote="Carpetsalesman" data-source="post: 2305870" data-attributes="member: 526513"><p>Update:</p><p></p><p>I'm 50g/day low carb for four months now, with FBG now typically between 5.8 and 6.8. Not overweight.</p><p></p><p>After experimenting with a bowl of cereal which spiked me to 10.5, I asked the doctor for another test, which was the old fashioned glucose tolerance test. This is the one where they take your fasting blood, give you 75g of glucose and test again in 2 hours time.</p><p></p><p>I opened the day at 5.5 which is unusually low. Five minutes before I walked into the doctor to have the 2nd test I did a fingerprick and scored 9.5.</p><p></p><p>Later that day the doctor called me with the good news that I am unequivocally not diabetic. Opening blood 5.5, matching the meter. Two hour blood was... 5.5!</p><p></p><p>"But what about my fingerprick test, I measured 9.5 five minutes before your test that says 5.5, how can that be?"</p><p></p><p>The doctor kindly explained that I've had the gold standard clinical test for diabetes, and passed perfectly. There is no reason for further investigation. And he obviously can't explain a result I'm taking with a £20 kit in my car. And I understand this completely. An hour later I nearly fainted in the street, managed to get something to eat, and when I got home and did another test an hour later I was at 4.6.</p><p></p><p>At this stage I have no idea what is going on except that something is going on and it is not good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carpetsalesman, post: 2305870, member: 526513"] Update: I'm 50g/day low carb for four months now, with FBG now typically between 5.8 and 6.8. Not overweight. After experimenting with a bowl of cereal which spiked me to 10.5, I asked the doctor for another test, which was the old fashioned glucose tolerance test. This is the one where they take your fasting blood, give you 75g of glucose and test again in 2 hours time. I opened the day at 5.5 which is unusually low. Five minutes before I walked into the doctor to have the 2nd test I did a fingerprick and scored 9.5. Later that day the doctor called me with the good news that I am unequivocally not diabetic. Opening blood 5.5, matching the meter. Two hour blood was... 5.5! "But what about my fingerprick test, I measured 9.5 five minutes before your test that says 5.5, how can that be?" The doctor kindly explained that I've had the gold standard clinical test for diabetes, and passed perfectly. There is no reason for further investigation. And he obviously can't explain a result I'm taking with a £20 kit in my car. And I understand this completely. An hour later I nearly fainted in the street, managed to get something to eat, and when I got home and did another test an hour later I was at 4.6. At this stage I have no idea what is going on except that something is going on and it is not good. [/QUOTE]
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