Re: What will these readings do to my body?

echo <echo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
* From: "Ellen K." <firstinitiallastname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 18:15:01 -0800


"lilelf" <lilelf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4d224f50
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Self-diagnosed diabetes and kidney disease(confirmed by self referal
to
endo and neph.)-several internists ignored my symptoms for years. :-
(

Last year my fasting BG was in the 80's and I had a H1Ac of 5.6
Latest test shows it has gone up to 5.8


5.8 is barely into "pre-diabetes" according to the current diagnostic
standard.

Diagnostic standards based on checking blood glucose or A1C are based
on the reaonable assumption that you are probably eating an average
diet. If you're not, these numbers are not a reliable guide to your
diabetic status.

Have you had a glucose tolerance test?

Which puts you through a specific controlled ingestion of glucose, and
makes fewer assumptions as to your diet. Although as some people here
have pointed out, if your diet is not average with respect to glycemic
load that conditioning of your system can still have an affect on the
GTT readings large enough to make the difference between
"pre-diabetic" and "diabetic" numbers.

The good news is that this is less important than it used to be,
because the ADA have in recent years come round to agreeing that
pre-diabetes should be treated the same as diabetes, in which case if
you're lucky you may not get bad enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.

The bad news is that according to the ADA a worrying proportion of
doctors are still not yet diagnosing and treating pre-diabetes.

--
Chris Malcolm
.

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