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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angelyne" data-source="post: 332596" data-attributes="member: 53143">Hi Louise,I'm in exactly the same boat as you.  I went to the doctor complaining of generally not feeling well.  He had some blood drawn.  The nurse called to say that my FBG was a bit high and to get a second reading.  A little high didn't seem that much cause for concern, and I foolishly told myself that it was probably just because I was under stress at the time of the test, and was not sleeping.  I put it out of my mind and continued as if nothing.  That was in spring.  In the fall, I finally told myself that I really needed to check my BG.  So I bought a meter. I only bought 50 strips, because I figured that I would test myself, find nothing wrong and then put the meter aside.  My capacity for self-delusion is amazing.  So I checked my FBG, and one hour after a carby meal of toast and eggs.  I was shocked when I saw 12 on my meter.  The FBG was around 7.  Those put me in the diabetes range.  I was shocked, although in retrospective, I shouldn't have been.PS. I also have heard that prednisone causes diabetes.  Chris Kresser, one of my favorite health practitioner has an interesting series on the thyroid on his website..  You might want to check it out, for an alternative viewpoint.  Those numbers were like an electrical prod. I immediately went back to strict low-carb.  Numbers are much better now.  5.9 FBG, and post meals BG hovering in the mid 6's.  A nice flat curve.  I almost convinced myself that the previous readings were just some freak thing, that maybe I had contaminated the test by failing to wash my hand.  So, I did my own glucose tolerance test by having a cinnamon danish.  At one hour it was around 7.8, which I figured was fine for such a carby thing.  I was pleased.  Then I tested at 2 hours.  It was 12 !!!  :***: I even tested it again to be sure.  12 again.  Well, I guess I can now pull my behind out of my, well you know.  I am diabetic.  Or close enough that it makes no difference.  It's strict low-carb for me for life. :cry: So I'm debating with myself.  Should I go do that test the nurse wanted.  It will probably be fine.  If the doctor wants a glucose tolerance test, I'll have to do a carb refeed for 3 days prior. I'm not all that keen to do that to myself.  In my mind, the only reason I'd want an official diagnostic would be to get metformin.  Assuming I want metformin.  All the "pros" that Sterling mentioned are not compelling to me.  The treatment for chronic disease is appalling anyway.  Cholesterol control usually means a statin.  It will be a cold day in hell before I take one of those.  It's a bad idea for 98% of the people who it is prescribed for.  Blood pressure, should be controlled through diet, and if drugs are needed, it doesn't matter if you are diabetic or not. Flu shots?  yeech.  Those are proven next to useless and are way over hyped.  Motivation ?  The meter is all the motivation I need.  It better than any doctor's nagging. Hb1AC kits can be bought in the pharmacy.    I just found that out.  Not sure if they are as accurate as the ones in the lab, but I'm told Hb1AC isn't all that accurate a diagnostic tool anyway.So I have to ask myself, what would change if I went to the doc, and managed to convince him that I should be tested for diabetes.  Apart from an official 'label', the only big difference would be metformin.  I'm a bit torn on that.  Since I must obviously have some sort of insulin resistance, I'm thinking that maybe metformin would help me loose weight.  I've been low-carbing for 3 weeks or so, and have lost maybe one pound.  I'm hoping that loosing weight would help, but that doesn't seem to be happening.Sorry for the long rambling post, but your dilemma was so similar to mine, I had to post</blockquote>

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