I posted a message on the forum about 6 months ago. A blood test for something else led to a diabetes blood test-A1C.
The result came back at 105-which did not mean much to me. As I said previously, I don't smoke, don't drink alcohol,
am very active, and was only a few pounds over my ideal weight, and believe it or not, I have never eaten fast food. Never had a
burger and fries, never been in a taco joint, ...
A test 3 months later came back with a reading of 86.
The clinic gave me a meter to test my blood sugar levels with finger-prick tests, which I have been doing now since I was told I had diabetes type 2. Testing 3 or 4 times a day. When I get up, after meals, before meals, late at night, and sometimes 15 minutes after eating, even got up during the night a couple of times and tested.
In all that time, the highest reading I got was 6.3 when I got up just once.
No matter what time I test, my readings scarcely move out of 4.0 to 4.9, and sometimes into the low 5s, mostly 5.1 or 5.2.
When I look at diabetes authorities in the U.S, N.Z, the UK, France, I see that their definition of normal b.g. is 3.5 to 5.4 for a non-diabetic.
Seems just what I am. But my clinic insists that I have diabetes.
In the UK, it seems that b.g. readings of 4.0 are hypos. I regularly get readings of 3.5 thu' 3.8, and 4.0 is commonplace for me. In fact if my b.g. goes above 5.0 I become anxious, thinking that I have hyperglycemia. I don't take medication.
Quite a few times, I have had carb-laden meals and tested my b.g. before and after. Just last Sunday, I tested my blood sugar level before Sunday dinner-4.7, 75 minutes later it was 4.2.
The pattern that emerges of my b.g. levels is the 3 or 4 range when waking, a rise to maybe 4.6 or even 5.1 around midday, and falling back again like the last night-3.5.
I don't believe I have diabetes, but the health center says otherwise. I have never seen a doctor at the clinic about this diagnosis. Long ago I was hospitalized three times. The first time was abnormal b.g. results-a test-the doctor told me that they thought I had a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't and whatever was making me ill cleared up. The second time I spent a week in the hospital, diagnosis, hypoglycemia. The third time, the same thing. An endocrinologist told me that my liver and pancreas were fine, and my test results were outside the normal range, but of themselves, not alarming.
My latest HbA1C test shows my b.g. is 26 or 4.5%.
I am going to an endocrinologist to have new tests and a review of my test results. Going to cost me about £600.00.
The result came back at 105-which did not mean much to me. As I said previously, I don't smoke, don't drink alcohol,
am very active, and was only a few pounds over my ideal weight, and believe it or not, I have never eaten fast food. Never had a
burger and fries, never been in a taco joint, ...
A test 3 months later came back with a reading of 86.
The clinic gave me a meter to test my blood sugar levels with finger-prick tests, which I have been doing now since I was told I had diabetes type 2. Testing 3 or 4 times a day. When I get up, after meals, before meals, late at night, and sometimes 15 minutes after eating, even got up during the night a couple of times and tested.
In all that time, the highest reading I got was 6.3 when I got up just once.
No matter what time I test, my readings scarcely move out of 4.0 to 4.9, and sometimes into the low 5s, mostly 5.1 or 5.2.
When I look at diabetes authorities in the U.S, N.Z, the UK, France, I see that their definition of normal b.g. is 3.5 to 5.4 for a non-diabetic.
Seems just what I am. But my clinic insists that I have diabetes.
In the UK, it seems that b.g. readings of 4.0 are hypos. I regularly get readings of 3.5 thu' 3.8, and 4.0 is commonplace for me. In fact if my b.g. goes above 5.0 I become anxious, thinking that I have hyperglycemia. I don't take medication.
Quite a few times, I have had carb-laden meals and tested my b.g. before and after. Just last Sunday, I tested my blood sugar level before Sunday dinner-4.7, 75 minutes later it was 4.2.
The pattern that emerges of my b.g. levels is the 3 or 4 range when waking, a rise to maybe 4.6 or even 5.1 around midday, and falling back again like the last night-3.5.
I don't believe I have diabetes, but the health center says otherwise. I have never seen a doctor at the clinic about this diagnosis. Long ago I was hospitalized three times. The first time was abnormal b.g. results-a test-the doctor told me that they thought I had a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't and whatever was making me ill cleared up. The second time I spent a week in the hospital, diagnosis, hypoglycemia. The third time, the same thing. An endocrinologist told me that my liver and pancreas were fine, and my test results were outside the normal range, but of themselves, not alarming.
My latest HbA1C test shows my b.g. is 26 or 4.5%.
I am going to an endocrinologist to have new tests and a review of my test results. Going to cost me about £600.00.
