I am very young at age 18 and I think I have insulin resistance Genes. Can anyone offer some insight?

[Ali Akin]

I am 18 years old and I have tested my fasting glucose at home and it was 5.9, which is very high. Next I ate 2 bowls of dessert then 90 mins later I tested my glucose and it was 5.72. A1c came out to be 36 mmol/mol. Is there something wrong with me, am I developing diabetes, have my insulin resistance genes revealed? If anyone can reply I will be delighted!

 

[Antje77]

I am 18 years old and I have tested my fasting glucose at home and it was 5.9, which is very high. Next I ate 2 bowls of dessert then 90 mins later I tested my glucose and it was 5.72. A1c came out to be 36 mmol/mol. Is there something wrong with me, am I developing diabetes, have my insulin resistance genes revealed? If anyone can reply I will be delighted!

36 is a perfectly normal hba1c.
A blood glucose of 5.7 only 90 minutes after eating two (supposedly high carb/sugar) desserts is something no diabetic would ever see.

May I ask why you are testing? What makes you think there is something wrong?

 

[Ali Akin]

Well cuz about 2 years ago I was diagnosed with PreDiabetes as my a1c was 39 mmol/mol, as in the USA 39 and above is prediabetes, due to this I wanted to do further testing, happened to have a blood sugar meter laying around at my grandmas house. Interestingly 2 years after the a1c of 39 it came down to 36 without me doing anything meaning no weight loss, diet changes etc. that’s why I wanted to do these tests just to get a better idea if there was truly an issue. Doctor told me I need to change my lifestyle in America but I didn’t listen unfortunately, luckily it didn’t progress.

 

[lovinglife]

Those are all perfectly normal numbers, no where near anything pointing to diabetes of any type,

 

[Ali Akin]

Well cuz about 2 years ago I was diagnosed with PreDiabetes as my a1c was 39 mmol/mol, as in the USA 39 and above is prediabetes, due to this I wanted to do further testing, happened to have a blood sugar meter laying around at my grandmas house. Interestingly 2 years after the a1c of 39 it came down to 36 without me doing anything meaning no weight loss, diet changes

Those are all perfectly normal numbers, no where near anything pointing to diabetes of any type,

Ok, thanks!

 

[Melgar]

@Ali Akin , you may be interested to know that the US has a lower threshold for Prediabetes than most other countries. In Canada and Europe you are diagnosed prediabetic when your blood sugars reach 42 mmol/mols.

 

[Ali Akin]

Well yea im not worried about the a1c anymore as it went to 36 mmol/mol on its own without me doing anything, and 36 is comfortably away from 42.

 

[KennyA]

Well cuz about 2 years ago I was diagnosed with PreDiabetes as my a1c was 39 mmol/mol, as in the USA 39 and above is prediabetes, due to this I wanted to do further testing, happened to have a blood sugar meter laying around at my grandmas house. Interestingly 2 years after the a1c of 39 it came down to 36 without me doing anything meaning no weight loss, diet changes

Ok, thanks!

The US (via the CDC) lowered its definition of prediabetes recently. I think there are at least five different definitions of "prediabetes" - have look at this paper:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articl...EC recommended,for defining prediabetes (112).