silverlaydee
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OP said that she's managing her diabetes with diet alone. Augmentin is a penicillin antibiotic to treat the infection. Obviously, you should not be experiencing hypos if you're managing diabetes with diet only, so I think you really need to talk to your GP about this - ideally, the human body should be able to maintain a safe BG levels regardless of diet.The advice from Fraddy is fine, but the best thing to do is to discuss with your doc that the dose of meds is bringing you down too low.
Patch said:penicillin antibiotic???
Think about this for a while... There are a LOT of people that believe that SOME people are mis-diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, when they are suffering from an unknown virus, or bacterial infection. Bacteria/infections/viruses can survive in the body potentially for a LIFETIME undetected.
Some viruses are known to cause high blood glucose (either by acting directly on the liver, or by affecting insulin sensitivity).
Your own body will adjust to this high BG, and increase insulin production. Weight gain ensues.
Now - you say you've lost 7 stone (fantastic work on that! :clap: ). I am completely speculating here - I expect I am very wrong - but MAYBE your pancreas is so used to dealing with the combination of the sugar from the food you eat, and the sugar that your own liver is producing (possibly because of a virus/bacteria acting on it...) that it is continuing to over produce insulin? Maybe your pancreas just doesn't know that you've lost so much weight? But, now that this mystery virus has cleared up (thanks maybe, to Augmentin 625mg three times a day) your pancreas is just doing to much work?
Interesting stuff.
Technically, you should have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes. You need one (or two in the absence of classical symptoms) FBT > 7 mmol/l to diagnose diabetes.My doctor diagnosed diabetes after a fasting blood test came back with a reading of 6.5. I then had the HbA1c test which also came back at 6.5 with the comment that I had excellent glycemic control
My doctor diagnosed diabetes after a fasting blood test came back with a reading of 6.5. I then had the HbA1c test which also came back at 6.5 with the comment that I had excellent glycemic control
Technically, you should have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes. You need one (or two in the absence of classical symptoms) FBT > 7 mmol/l to diagnose diabetes.
HbA1c can be used as a diagnostic test for diabetes providing that stringent quality assurance tests are in place and assays are standardised to criteria aligned to the international reference values, and there are no conditions present which preclude its accurate measurement.
An HbA1c of 48 mmol/mol (6.5%) is recommended as the cut point for diagnosing diabetes.
previous WHO criteria:
Methods and criteria for diagnosing diabetes mellitus
1. Diabetes symptoms (ie polyuria, polydipsia and unexplained weight loss) plus
a random venous plasma glucose concentration > 11.1 mmol/l
or
a fasting plasma glucose concentration > 7.0 mmol/l (whole blood > 6.1mmol/l)
or
two hour plasma glucose concentration > 11.1 mmol/l two hours after 75g anhydrous glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).
2. With no symptoms diagnosis should not be based on a single glucose determination but requires confirmatory plasma venous determination. At least one additional glucose test result on another day with a value in the diabetic range is essential, either fasting, from a random sample or from the two hour post glucose load. If the fasting or random values are not diagnostic the two hour value should be used
Yes. However, my point was that OP was diagnosed based on the fasting blood test; the HbA1c happened later.It reads to me that a single Hba1c of 6.5 can now be diagnostic ?
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