A1C and pre diabetes

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Evergrean

Discussion Starter · Dec 21, 2010

I got my first A1C this week after getting several finger tip 12 hour fasting results that were at 109 for the past couple years.

My A1C was 5.8. I am 47, male, slim and excercise alot.
Please advise if my 5.8 level is pre diabetic and cause for concern?

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Shanny

· #21 · Jan 5, 2011

You're making good progress, Evergrean! Once you get your meter (and most of us have several), you'll be able to tailor your menus to exactly how you body tolerates given foods. Just test before you eat anything, and then test and one and two hour intervals after the meal. Try to keep your sugar levels from going over 140.

And as meters go, the cheap ones are as accurate as any others - it's the price of test strips that wrecks our budgets! So I get the Walmart cheapie, the ReliOn Confirm for about $10, and 50 test strips runs about $20. That's half the price of most brands.

Thanks for the update . . . I hope you'll come around often - it sure helps being able to bounce our thoughts off other diabetics!

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Scott D

· #22 · Jan 5, 2011

onaughmae said:
You may be experiencing high blood sugar after you eat..I would pretty much bet that you are. To be over 200 2 hours after just drinking a soda is pretty high. I cant even imagine how high it must be getting after a full meal. The best thing for you to do at this point is to test before you eat a meal, then at least 2 hours after you eat. You should be back to pre-meal readings within 2 hours (or at least below 140). If you are higher than that, then you need to consider restricting your carb intake.

Metformin itself does not usually cause hypoglycemia. It does not directly stimulate the pancreas. That isnt how it works. It works by making your body more sensitive to the insulin that you are already producing naturally. Blood sugars in the 80's and 90's are not hypoglycemia. That is a normal blood sugar. Metformin does not affect your blood sugar immediately after taking it. It can take a few weeks to actually build itself to a stable therapeutic level in the body. So skipping one dose actually does nothing really.

Many times, the pain from neuropathy is significantly reduced, or even may disappear with good blood sugar control. If not, there are medications that help considerably.

Stable blood glucose control is the key to managing diabetes and living a long healthy life. A diagnosis of diabetes does not mean you are going to die from it. My grandmother was a 94 year old diabetic when she died. She died from complications of pneumonia, not diabetes. My mother was 80 when she passed away....again, with diabetes...not from it. My sister died too young at 54....also with diabetes...not from it. Many diabetics I know are actually some of the healthiest people I know

You can do this Please visit often, ask all the questions you need. There is a ton of great info to be found all around the site so please poke around some when you have time!

Ok, here is your request. 5 pm az time 112. three taco's and now 7pm 87. Not to shabby. I took one of the 750 time release pills this morning. Just wanted to see how things felt vs. the 250 twice a day. The toes are a bit sore at the moment.

When this junk started I used to eat cereal and toast in the morning, frootloops, it has less sugar than rasin bran and is about the same as most non surgar cereals. Snack, apple and cheese. Lunch salad, chicken or some kind of meat on it, kraft dressing. Din Din was a bowl of chicken soup, 2 spoon fulls of rice. I made my own soup, boil a chicken in the crock pot. The breast would go in the salad and the dark meat would go into the soup, about a gallon of it. That was my food plan for 2 months strait. I was getting tired of making it so I went back to regular din din's. Hind sight, might not be a good thing since it is a bit higher in carbs.

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