Re: what is the real range of numbers for the FBG?

kohlrabi_croce <kohlrabi_croce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, I already figured I wasn't in the normal range.
I was wondering about the numbers for "pre-diabetic"
vs. diabetic.

It doesn't really matter, because the treatment in each case is the
same. You're sliding down the slippery lope. You may or may not yet
have slid past the flag stuck in the ground which says "diabetes
starts here", but the point is at least to slow down the slide,
hopefully to stop it. The first thing to try is reducing your
consumption of the things that give you the largest post-meal or
post-snack BG spikes. The finger of suspicion first points to the
concentratedly sugary and starchy things like cakes, bread, sugary
drinks, potatoes, pasta, pastry, rice. Your BG meter will tell you what
give you personally the largest rises in BG.

Don't panic. This has been going on for a long time, and while
dangerous in the long term it's no sudden killer. You've got plenty of
time to learn how to put the brakes on, and every small step is good
progress. Unfortunately there's no single treatment recipe, because
we're all different, and at different stages. But as you find out more
about your BG behaviour there are folk here who can give good advice
and point you to good sources of information for whatever flavour of
diabetes or pre-diabetes you may turn out to have.

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