Question about Morning Numbers

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Question about Morning Numbers
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Wed, 05-21-2008 - 10:56am
I have not been diagnosed as diabetic, but have been having numerous symptoms. I decided to buy a monitor and keep track of my numbers for a few weeks.  My question is this, what numbers would be considered normal? I tested this morning for the first time as soon as I woke up and it was 74.  Where does this fall on the overall scale? What is an average timetable for testing and what should the numbers be?
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Registered: 04-03-2003
Wed, 05-21-2008 - 12:31pm

Rule of thumb numbers according to the Association of Clinical Endocrinologists are:

<110 pre meal (includes first thing in the morning before breakfast) (so your a.m. reading is okay)
<180 1 hr post meal
<140 2 hrs post meal

The ADA guidelines are slightly different:
70-130 before meal (which includes first thing before breakfast)
<180 2 hrs after meal

You'll want to be monitoring carbohydrate intake and getting exercise. Exercise is the best way to reduce insulin resistance. You're going to want to talk to a dr if you -think- you're diabetic so you can get proper diagnostic testing (fasting serum glucose, A1C are the two most likely tests). Could be, given that one reading (which is by no means a complete picture) that you are in a pre-diabetic, insulin resistant state. If so, managing your weight, your carb intake, and exercising can help postpone (potentially indefinitely) moving into actual diabetes. The diagnostic criteria for a diabetes diagnosis is testing above 126 in the fasting serum glucose test (usually they'll do this twice with a few weeks in between to make sure it wasn't a fluke). The A1C gives a picture of the last 3 months of blood sugar levels (averaged) by measuring how much glucose is attached onto the red blood cells in your system.

--Deb

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Wed, 05-21-2008 - 2:03pm

Hi and welcome to the board.


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Thu, 05-22-2008 - 8:20am

normal fasting blood glucose level is between 70 and 110 g/dl


A value above 140 mg/dl on at least two occasions typically means a person has diabetes.