I was just informed that my blood sugar levels were high and that I should make an appt to see my PCP before going back to my Specialist. She said I should be tested again and begin taking control of it before being tx by them... My question is this, if I am diabetic (or even pre-diabetic), which runs in my family, is there a way of getting control of in a short period of time -- say 2 weeks -- before going in to see my PCP?
I can't get in to see him for 2 weeks but I want to begin doing something now. Is there a chance that with a better eating plan (which really has been bad lately) and exercise habits (slacking too) I can get it to a more reasonable, lower level by the time that appt comes up?
Do you just want to lower it for the appointment? I wouldn't suggest that. If you are diabetic you will need to deal with it iether by medication or total lifestyle changes. Your Dr. should order a fasting glucose tolerance test (3-4hr) And even if you dieted for 2 weeks and had a loe carb diet he would be able to see the average sugars levels in your blood test from the last 3 months by doing ha1c.
I would suggest you do nothing to alter you eating habits so you get an accurate diagnoses. Don't you want to know if you have diabetes?
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No, I don't want to lower it just for the appointment. And yes, I do want to know if I am diabetic... However, I was already in the process of beginning a better eating plan. I had been lurking here for a few weeks and got intereted in the IR way of eating... So I ordered the book, read it and planned to begin -- but then I got this news. So I want to know, if I go ahead and make these modifications, could it ward off diabetes if I don't actually have it? This is something I want to make a part of my lifestyle though -- I'm not looking for a quick fix...
And just for background information, I just began seeing a specialist for TTC (which is why I just got these test results)... My father just had his leg amputated due to diabetes 2 weeks ago... So naturally, the two combined moved me to want to make better decisions for my health.
Making the changes (if you don't have daibetes) can ward it off. There are even some diabetics who can totally controll their sugar levels just by dieting. I, infortunatley can't :I. I had suffered through 10 yrs of infertility including 4 miscarriages. They were very likely due to daibeties and pcos symptoms. My sugars were out of whack for a very long time but I didn't know I was diabetic. Once I was diagnosed I was told to stop ttc, and I did (officially). I stopped with all the fert meds and treatments. I dieted, lost some weight, took met (for diabeties not the pcos) and insulin. We did continue having unprotected sex as It never occured to us that we would concieve without fert meds. That was the only way I ever got pg. But 6 weeks later we got a bfp naturally. I got pg with twins. since your app is only a cpl weeks away continue what you doing to get a more correct diagnoses then you can do everything else the way you planned it. my opnion only
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It is possible to lower your fasting blood sugar significantly in two week's time with a drastic change in eating habits. It will take a while to get the HBA1c test (the three month average test) down, but that's not used to diagnose diabetes anyway, it's only supposed to be used for monitoring treatment once diagnosed.
If your doc orders a glucose tolerance test, it's important to eat at least 150 (some sources say 250) grams of carbs a day for the three days prior to the test, otherwise your results could be skewed and you could be erroneously diagnosed with diabetes (because of an exaggerated glucose response). It's something docs often fail to tell you. Here's some info I saved once about this:
The purpose of the GTT is to determine an individual's blood glucose response to an oral load of glucose under standardized conditions. The test should be carried out after a 12 h overnight fast and after having consumed a diet containing at least 250g carbohydrate per day for at least 3 days. The subject should remain at rest without smoking for the duration of the test. The blood glucose level must be measured fasting and 2 h after the oral glucose load dissolved into 250-300 ml of fruit flavored water.
"Impairment of Glucose Tolerance in Normal Adults Following a Lowered Carbohydrate Intake."
authors: PEY-YU WANG, TAKASHI KANEKO, YUAN WANG, MASATO TAWATA1 and AKIO SATO
Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 1999, 189 (1)
"Some normal people are falsely classified as having impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) if they are given an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) when their last meal contained very few carbohydrates. In this study, the duration of carbohydrate restriction was extended to one and three days and the relationship between the carbohydrate restriction and the glucose tolerance after an OGTT was examined. Two different groups of normal subjects were placed on high-carbohydrate (80% carbohydrates) and low-carbohydrate (10%) diets before an OGTT; one group for one day and the other for 3 days ....
The longer the period of carbohydrate restriction, the severer was the glucose tolerance impairment....
The impairment of glucose tolerance after carbohydrate restriction may be associated with the Randle effect, which is the activation of the glucose-free fatty acid cycle."
1999 Tohoku University Medical Press
Linda
__________________ dx pcos 1984, type II diabetes 2001, also hypertension
Met 2000mg since 2001, started Glucophage XR 4/22/04, then switched to Met ER 6/04; also: multi, Vit. C, Vit. E, B12/folic acid combo, fish oil & borage oil combo, garlic capsules, cinnamon, Vitex, calcium with magnesium/zinc, biotin, CoQ10, selenium,iron
Other meds: Verapamil and Altace(for blood pressure)
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