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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2443276" data-attributes="member: 372717">Welcome to the forums [USER=548995]@Tanz93[/USER] Generally many diabetics (and prediabetics) find their fasting reading is relatively high, because of the dawn phenomena where your liver pumps out glucose first thing in the morning. So I don't think many doctors would diagnose on the basis of a slightly high fasting blood sugar, they prefer an hba1c, which is a measure of your average blood glucose over the last 3 months.Also, a couple of individual slightly high readings are neither here or there,   butGiven your family history, if I were in your position I'd be getting regular (yearly at minimum) hba1c tests to make sure that you weren't in diabetes or prediabetes territory.Are you watching your carbs at all?  Most of the diabetics and prediabetics on here who push their levels into remission do so by reducing the carbs in their diet to a level their bodies can cope with.  (And as a T1, pizza is pretty lethal for my bg levels,  I suspect it probably isn't much better for T2s.)   But congrats on investing in a meter, which will let you know if you have an issue long before the doctors do.</blockquote>

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