Prediabetes fasting levels please?

[Libbaloo]

Watching the huge thread responses to an admin thread re morning fasting levels, I would be interested in seeing what those with predicates are getting as they wake.

 

[bladerfc]

I'm usually between 5 and 5.7

 

[Bluetit1802]

It isn't what others are getting that is important. Pre-diabetics on this forum and everywhere else will see different levels, just like non-diabetics and diabetics do. It is what you get, and what you should be aiming for, that is important. You should be aiming for between 4 and 5.9 as this is considered to be normal. No two people are alike, so there is little point in comparing. The morning fasting level is notoriously unpredictable due to outside influences over which we have very little control. This is why doctors no longer use this test to diagnose diabetes. Doctors do still use it on undiagnosed diabetics during routine blood tests, then if the level is suspect, they will arrange an HbA1c test, although more and more don't even do this these days, they go straight for an HbA1c.

 

[Libbaloo]

It isn't what others are getting that is important. Pre-diabetics on this forum and everywhere else will see different levels, just like non-diabetics and diabetics do. It is what you get, and what you should be aiming for, that is important. You should be aiming for between 4 and 5.9 as this is considered to be normal. No two people are alike, so there is little point in comparing. The morning fasting level is notoriously unpredictable due to outside influences over which we have very little control. This is why doctors no longer use this test to diagnose diabetes. Doctors do still use it on undiagnosed diabetics during routine blood tests, then if the level is suspect, they will arrange an HbA1c test, although more and more don't even do this these days, they go straight for an HbA1c.

Thank you for clarifying.