Hi, my name is Brian, i am from Argentina.
I have searched various sites and this one have the best information.
I want to share with you my thoughts, last winter i got ill from the lungs but the GP in ER said i had a sinus infection, got me on antibiotics, the antibiotics did nothing, so i went to an otorhinolaryngologist, what did he said... he betted that i was diabetic (my weight was 135 kilos almost 300 pounds, 1.82 meters, good muscles behind the fat), i got various tests, he said i was a time bomb.
I almost cried, something was not right, i got lucky that my family GP got back from vacation, i got to see him, he told me maybe i had a sinus infection but also had bronchitis, he got me on antibiotics again and two days later i got well (he did not though i was diabetic but better be tested).
I bought a monitor Accu-check, so i started reading about prediabetes, i found Jason Fung Fat-chance book, my fasting blood glucose at the moment was 6.3-6.6 mmol, with the knowledge from the books i started a LCHF diet and IF, in two months i have lost 35 pounds and my FBG is between 5.7 and 6.3.
Got to think, i got up at 7:30 my first check say 6.3, two hours later is 5.9, let see maybe a got a liver dump at 6 or 7 before i wake up, a liver dumps is kinda food (the liver put sugar in the blood, like breakfast), so if two hours later my BG got down, maybe my real number is the 9 am check. Every dietician says that we need to eat six little meals a day, with normal carbohydrates, so a normal person goes from 5.0 mmol to 7 mmol six times a day, so i took my high fasting BG as near normal because i only eat one or two times a day. From 9 am to 9 pm my BG is steady 5.7 mmol, two hours after a meal is less than 6.4 mmol.
I have learn that some doctors do not see the whole picture and does not care, finally i took the tests (just that morning my bg monitor check was 5.4...), the lab came with FBG at 5.2 mmol, a HOMA-IR at 1.6 (not insulin resistance), total cholesterol 154, triglycerides 103, everything normal...
So FBG at 5.4 was my all time low from the time i got my BG monitor, after that day without any change in the diet i did not got that number again, i got 5.7 to 6.3 afterward.
I will ask my GP a HBA1C, i really do not know if i am prediabetic or not, it is not black or white as some doctors like.
I think i have not lost much beta cells, i do not have hyperinsulinemia, so maybe a little high FBG is not a great deal for me.
I have readed plenty of yours posts, know the frustration of a little high reading in the morning, but maybe is just a benign liver dump that after 90 minutes BG returns to a better number.
So HBA1C and glucose tolerance test are the real deal. Maybe we prediabetics were a little anxious about every day FBG reading, and we only need to check a 3 months HBA1C...
What are your thought?
I have searched various sites and this one have the best information.
I want to share with you my thoughts, last winter i got ill from the lungs but the GP in ER said i had a sinus infection, got me on antibiotics, the antibiotics did nothing, so i went to an otorhinolaryngologist, what did he said... he betted that i was diabetic (my weight was 135 kilos almost 300 pounds, 1.82 meters, good muscles behind the fat), i got various tests, he said i was a time bomb.
I almost cried, something was not right, i got lucky that my family GP got back from vacation, i got to see him, he told me maybe i had a sinus infection but also had bronchitis, he got me on antibiotics again and two days later i got well (he did not though i was diabetic but better be tested).
I bought a monitor Accu-check, so i started reading about prediabetes, i found Jason Fung Fat-chance book, my fasting blood glucose at the moment was 6.3-6.6 mmol, with the knowledge from the books i started a LCHF diet and IF, in two months i have lost 35 pounds and my FBG is between 5.7 and 6.3.
Got to think, i got up at 7:30 my first check say 6.3, two hours later is 5.9, let see maybe a got a liver dump at 6 or 7 before i wake up, a liver dumps is kinda food (the liver put sugar in the blood, like breakfast), so if two hours later my BG got down, maybe my real number is the 9 am check. Every dietician says that we need to eat six little meals a day, with normal carbohydrates, so a normal person goes from 5.0 mmol to 7 mmol six times a day, so i took my high fasting BG as near normal because i only eat one or two times a day. From 9 am to 9 pm my BG is steady 5.7 mmol, two hours after a meal is less than 6.4 mmol.
I have learn that some doctors do not see the whole picture and does not care, finally i took the tests (just that morning my bg monitor check was 5.4...), the lab came with FBG at 5.2 mmol, a HOMA-IR at 1.6 (not insulin resistance), total cholesterol 154, triglycerides 103, everything normal...
So FBG at 5.4 was my all time low from the time i got my BG monitor, after that day without any change in the diet i did not got that number again, i got 5.7 to 6.3 afterward.
I will ask my GP a HBA1C, i really do not know if i am prediabetic or not, it is not black or white as some doctors like.
I think i have not lost much beta cells, i do not have hyperinsulinemia, so maybe a little high FBG is not a great deal for me.
I have readed plenty of yours posts, know the frustration of a little high reading in the morning, but maybe is just a benign liver dump that after 90 minutes BG returns to a better number.
So HBA1C and glucose tolerance test are the real deal. Maybe we prediabetics were a little anxious about every day FBG reading, and we only need to check a 3 months HBA1C...
What are your thought?
