Interpreting #s - Need Experienced Help

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Registered: 01-18-2006
Interpreting #s - Need Experienced Help
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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 12:17pm

IF you really know what you're talking about here: I'd appreciate your advice on this:

I'm in touch with my doctor, and she says I am pre-diabetic, but not officially diabetic ---- yet I hear the ADA would qualify me as diabetic from these scores. If I REALLY need to get SERIOUS - than I need to know.

Over the last 2 years, I've had several Glucose Tolerance & A1C tests...... I don't have all the numbers, but I do know these ---- Should I be ALARMED???

A1C has gone from 4.8 to the most recent 5.5 ---- always the results are within this range.

2 years back my fasting glucose scores were: Fasting 94 & 2 hours out 164. (I don't have the 1 hr figure).

& I dont' have the scores of tests in betw. this first & latest glucose tests, but they ranged about 150 or so.

Last wek, I had a fasting glucose & my scores are: Fasting 94 & (1 hour out is 189) & 2 hours out 186.

These sound HORRIBLE to me ---- yet my doctor doesn't seem too worried -----

Should I definitely get a 2nd opinion from another doctor?

NOW, I DO know I need to lose about 20 lbs. And I HATE to exercise, so I have not kept it up the last 2 years as well as I did to begin with -- in fact, now, I don't really exercise at all......

My Cholesterol last week is 214 --- which is higher than I've ever known it to be........

And my HDL 54 & LDL 135 ---- not sure what those mean.....

I THINK I eat fairly well fatwise --- but I do not totally avoid sugar - maybe I should!?

I'd appreciate an honest opinion. THANKS.

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Registered: 04-03-2003
Thu, 11-13-2008 - 9:34am

As with everything, read the labels then take some of it with a grain of salt. For example, some of the "lower sodium" products really don't have less salt - they just changed the portion size! Argh! So, yeah, if you eat 1/4 cup of their soup (as the portion indicates) you'd have less salt BUT you'd likely also be really hungry still. And, if you eat say 1 cup (a more reasonable soup portion), you'll end up with the same amount of salt. It's a marketing shell game. Caveat emptor.

--Deb

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