Glucose Intolerance vs Prediabetes
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Glucose Intolerance vs Prediabetes
| Sat, 06-23-2007 - 6:43pm |
What is the difference here?
Is GI like PrePreDiabetes? !!!! Is it more GI can be more easily corrected with weight loss? That's what this doc, an associate of my regular, looked at my tests & said is more descriptive of me.
Also, let me ask. My dietitian suggests when I have snacks, that I combine a protein with a carb. Know why this is?
I'm going back to see her later in July, but the question has recently popped up into my head again. Sometimes it's helpful to hear things from people with a different perspective.

The two are the same.
Yep, compared meters & with the blood draw. It's really off - which is a HUGE RELIEF!!!!!
Because - I was getting all sorts of whacky #s - within that 24 hours. BS was going from 200s to 400 too 300 to 200 to 300 etc etc etc
I couldn't understand b/c I was eating anything more. I got plenty scared.
I thought the meter might be off - but, being such a dope - didn't realize what a real possibility it was.
BS - don't normally fluctuate up & down when you're NOT eating anything new - right?????
Normally, sugar levels should go DOWN, back to fasting/normal, right????
It really is best to error in favor of the meter though.
BS - don't normally fluctuate up & down when you're NOT eating anything new - right????? No, that is not correct.
Normally, sugar levels should go DOWN, back to fasting/normal, right???? Sometimes but not always.
Eating old or nerw things isn't what messes with your blood sugar. It is how much you are eating (portion size), hormones, stress, exercise and a number of things we just can't figure out. You can eat the same thing at exactly the same time and have a different blood sugar reading and you can drive yourself crazy trying to figure out why. So don't even start down that street.
Hopefully the dietitian told you what portion size you were supposed to be eating and I am sure you were not told that it was okay to eat cereal, milk and toast at the same meal. Unless you were to have more than 45 grams of carbs that isn't an okay meal. Even then it probably would have been 1/2 cup of cereal, 1 cup of milk and 1 slice of toast. Notice I didn't include any brown sugar in there!
Normally blood sguar reading do go down after a period of time has passed. In non-diabetics the blood sugar is back down to normal in two hours. In diabetics it takes 3 or more hours. Now I am talking about diet and exercise (life style modification) treated diabetics. This is why you test your blood sugar 2 hours after eating and the goal is for it to be 140 or less, or no more than 40 points above where it was before you ate.
But one of the first clues that something is wrong with your body is when you blood sugar doesn't behave like it usually does and then you need to see if you have an infection somewhere. Also your blood sugar will drop back to normal when you are on medication for an infection when the antibiotic starts to kill off the bad bugs.
I am going to make comments about the care and feeding of blood glucose meters in a seperate posting so please watch for it.
Additionally, you need to contact your physician if you are treated with medication and your blood sugar starts running less than 80. You need to go to the ER if you experence any alteration of consciousness or responsiveness with either a
Thanks for all your good info!
I understand now that it doesn't necessarily go right down (bs) - but that ideally it should........ And that I was right to see someone when it was ridiculously continually for 24 hours - 280 - 180- 330 - 255 - 400 - 300 - 250, etc. etc......
maybe that craziness would have alerted you ladies - it did not me - but will next time.
FYI, everyone, my readings since I got the new meter have been extra good!!!!!