Been testing myself Few Questions

Pixistix · 12-17-2006, 05:40 AM

The clinic I go to is always so over booked that it can be awhile I started checking my sugar levels first thing in the morning so I'd have something to show my doctor at my appointment coming up.
It so far reads as such

Date Fasting 1 hr after eating
Dec 6th 159
Dec 7th 149 407 1 Cinn Roll
Dec 9th 127 224 1 chicken Enchalada.
Dec 10th 148
Dec 11th 178 148 Italian Sauage & Bussel sporuts
Dec 12th 151
Dec 13th 148 246 2 French Toast
Dec. 15th 143
Dec 17th 179

The fasting is when i first get up before i eat or drink and then the second is after i eat breakfast or lunch depending on whish i actually eat LoL (not a huge breakfast person) I admit that it isnt always a hour on those either. Like i sem to remember it being several hour after the cim Roll and maybe only 45 minutes or so with the french toast. So Im really looking more at the fasting ones.

To me these don't seem so great. I found online that they consider anything over 126 high.
So here lies the question. I just received a letter from my drs lab saying the last "blood screening" they did last month all came back normal. I read on the back what is supposed to be included in it and it mention sugar levels.
The enitre point of the test was supposed to be my potassium cause I also asked to be screened for cushings cause a previous doctor had mentioned it. Its a whole nother issues that is (considering i didnt read anything on their sheet saying that was checked not to mention everthing i can find about cushing only mention low pot in a very rare kind)

OK so my rambling has a point.

1. Should I ask for my sugars to be checked again in an actual glucose test? Diabetes does run in the family (my grandmother maternal and partenal grandfather) plus i had gestaional
2. Ive seen mention of IR in both PCOS and Cushings? How is it tested? Is it a seprate test to see if your insulin is high along with your glucose levels? How is it differnt then type 2? How do they determine the difference between the two types and IR?

hanshab · 12-17-2006, 12:51 PM

I'd ask to be screen. Also, your after meals, if it were me (and I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV) I'd wait 2 hours to test. That's what my doctor asks of me. My goals are less than 120 fasting and less than 140 2 hours after a meal. Hope that helps.

*~SugarPlums~* · 12-17-2006, 01:18 PM

those nummbe are high and to me indicate diabetes. I would go to the Dr and have him run a glucose tolerance test. Good luck

Countrygirl81 · 12-19-2006, 02:48 PM

the fasting numbers alone are high enough to diagnose diabetes...
You're fasting number should not be over 120 as a diabetic.. and your 2 hour after meal is supposed to be under 180... sooo i would definately get into a doctor and get your screening

bec415 · 12-19-2006, 05:39 PM

I was tested for cushings by collecting a 24 urine sameple and they want to see if your level of cortisol is too high. so you're not on any medication yet for your insulin? Your readings are absolutely high enough to be considered diabetic. My endo would want you on metformin right away! My readings average 115 for fasting and probably 155 after eating and they're too high.

When I go get blood work done, my glucose in often "normal" but that's sort of a fluke. sometimes I wake up and depending on what I ate the night before it's within normal range. But my doc says even if you're occasionally normal and occasionally high, that's pre-diabetes and you want to start treating the problem at that point. But really, you're numbers are high enough for diabetes. (espeicially the 407 from eating a cinn. roll) Yes, absolutely get another opinion! Take care of yourself

Countrygirl81 · 12-19-2006, 08:13 PM

im just curious how they checked your sugar... was it just the simple glucose test that they run in a CBC or metabolic workup or was it an actual Diabetes test... Even the hemoglobin a1c has its faults.. For example : i was on high amounts of steroids and for 3 - 4 weeks straight i couldnt get a reading under 200 (my after meals even though low in carbs were still running 350-400), and when I got my a1c back my results were 7.7 which is an average of 170 which with blood sugar numbers that high just a month before my a1c seems nuts because I was very uncontrolled in that whole three month time period!!! the occasional low i was having was making it look stabile... Now a 7.7 is far from being good but the steroids caused that.

They should do a fasting glucose test on you and then they need to do a glucose tolerance test as stated before.. Good luck, definately find a doctor asap though because it's not anything to mess with especially with high numbers.

bec415 · 12-19-2006, 08:44 PM

hey countrygirl, I see that you're on 2000mg of met, I'm wondering what you're readings have been like since starting the meds?

Countrygirl81 · 12-19-2006, 08:58 PM

Truthfully the Metformin doesn't seem like it's done a whole lot of anything for me at all, however the doctor put me on 2 mg of Amaryl and thats worked wonders between that and my nightly shot of Levemir my morning numbers (even being on steroids now) have been running between 70 and 100 and my after meal numbers have been under 150 for the most part. I have had a couple highs. I'm coming down with a cold and so my morning numbers seem to be creeping up on me again. As I said as far as the Met it's not done much at all, not regulated my periods or anything the only reason i was put on it was the doc originally wanted to put me on Avandia i think when i was first diagnosed and at the time it was like 160.00 to get filled and i didnt have prescription coverage so they gave me Met which at the time was only running about 60.00 and none of the doctors have taken me off it. I have gone off a couple times because of the stomach issues it causes and there was no drastic changes there either.