DIABTETES QUESTIOn?????MEASUREMENTS IN MMOL CANADIAN?!
Question: hi. i am 5'11 and 325lbs. i am a big boned girl. and was recentlly diagnosed as pre-diabetic..i have cut carbs..sugar significantly over the past month..and i got a blood sugar monitor and have been checking my blood sugar regulairly. now i am from canada..and we use mmol measurements. before meals...mine is anywhere from 4.9-5.8 mmol and about 2 hrs after meals with ...about 70-90 g of carbs its usually about 6.3-7.9 mmol...is this too high? or where it should be for a normal person? does a normal blood sugar go up over 7.0 mmol 2 hrs after meals?? any advice..suggestions..info would be appriciated. ive taken my blood sugar randomly and it likes to sit at about 5.7 mmol
Answers: hi. i am 5'11 and 325lbs. i am a big boned girl. and was recentlly diagnosed as pre-diabetic..i have cut carbs..sugar significantly over the past month..and i got a blood sugar monitor and have been checking my blood sugar regulairly. now i am from canada..and we use mmol measurements. before meals...mine is anywhere from 4.9-5.8 mmol and about 2 hrs after meals with ...about 70-90 g of carbs its usually about 6.3-7.9 mmol...is this too high? or where it should be for a normal person? does a normal blood sugar go up over 7.0 mmol 2 hrs after meals?? any advice..suggestions..info would be appriciated. ive taken my blood sugar randomly and it likes to sit at about 5.7 mmol
First of all, keep in mind that blood glucose meters can be up to 20% off. That's what's allowed by law. Your meter may read a bit high or a bit low. So, any testing you do at home will not be as accurate as a lab test.
Normal fasting levels are between 3.9 and 5.5. Anyone with a fasting blood sugar between 5.5 and 6.9 may be considered pre-diabetic if they test this high twice, and have symptoms of diabetes. If your fasting level is 7.0 or greater, you are probably diabetic.
After meals, your blood sugar should be under 7.8 but there is pressure from the medical community to lower this number to 6.9.
So, your numbers are possibly pre-diabetic, but you really need to get some labwork done and see your doctor to be sure.
You really should try testing at 1 hour, 1 and a half hours and 2 hours after a meal to see how quickly your body digests food. You might be missing the actual blood sugar peak by testing at only 2 hours following a meal.
Read this website on testing:
http://www.diabetic-talk.org/jennifer.ht...
and this one
http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/14046889...
Use this conversion table to understand the numbers. The left colomn mmol/L is the Canadian numbers
http://www.joslin.org/Beginners_guide_52...
The Canadian Diabetes Association guidelines say that the following numbers are considered diabetes:
FPG of 7.0 mmol/L or more
(Fasting = no caloric intake for at least 8 hours)
or
Casual PG of 11.1 mmol/L or more + symptoms of diabetes
(Casual = any time of the day, without regard to the interval since the last meal)
(Classic symptoms of diabetes = polyuria, polydipsia and unexplained weight loss )
or
2hPG in a 75-g OGTT more than 11.1 mmol/L
(if your 2 hour glucose in an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test is 11.1 or higher)
A confirmatory laboratory glucose test (an FPG, casual PG, or a 2hPG in a 75-g OGTT) must be done in all cases on another day in the absence of unequivocal hyperglycemia accompanied by acute metabolic decompensation.
2hPG = 2-hour plasma glucose
FPG = fasting plasma glucose
OGTT = oral glucose tolerance test
PG = plasma glucose
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Impaired glucose tolerance, or Pre-diabetes may be diagnosed if your fasting level is below 7 but your post meal numbers are between 7.8 and 11.0
Your numbers appear to be pre-diabetic, but not yet diabetic.
I think it would be a good idea to ask your doctor to do a glucose tolerance test, and an HbA1c test.
You should have these tests done annually, so that if diabetes creeps up on you, you can get it under control.
In the meantime, try reducing your carbs, and eliminating the refined carbs completely. The South Beach Diet might be a good place to start.
CANADIAN GROUP FOR DIABETES
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Can...