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Newbie. Advice on OGTT results please

miffy49

miffy49

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Hi Everyone.
I'm new to posting although I have been following posts and gleaned some really useful advice.

Can any of you experienced diabetics help me understand my results please? I had a couple of raised fasting blood sugars and my GP told me I was pre-diabetic. After the second one he decided he wanted an OGTT as I had been self-testing and my own fasting readings were anything from 6.6 t0 7.1. On the day of the test I woke feeling more hungry than normal but toddled off ith my bottle of Lucozade and did the test. I have just been for the results and been informed that my fasting glucose was 6.9 but that the two hour glucose was 5.9. My GP said he has only come across this a few times and couldn't offer any explanation. Later in the afternoon following the test I had a hypo that hit me very fast even though I had had some eggs for lunch. (My Bg dropped to 2,5mmol)

The only advice I have been given is to lose weight and not eat sugar and come back in 6mths for another fasting Bg. Could the fact that my 2hr reading and then the hypo be some sort of rebound effect? Also, what sort of carb levels do you advise. How low do I need to go or is it down to trial and error?

Thanks in advance
Miffy
 
Hello miffy49 and welcome to the forum. :)

It is always worrying when your doctor doesn’t know the answer to your question but not very many of them have much experience of diabetes it would appear. :? In fairness we are all different and react differently to different foods etc which makes things less than simple.

If you do a search on ‘Dawn Phenomena’ that may well help you to understand the raised fasting test.

Eggs have little in the way of carbs so if you ate nothing else in addition perhaps you needed more to eat; you don’t need to be diabetic to have a hypo.

If you are pre-diabetic and want to stave off full blown diabetes and want to know what advice is given to newly diagnosed T2s then look amongst the postings on the greetings and introductions section as following that advice is good for just about everyone.
Until you have a diagnosis and you have a meter with which to test your reaction to various foods it is really difficult to give any specific advice.

You can do much good work to help your future health if you search out the information on here and ask questions; there is usually someone on here who is happy to help. :)
 
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