What are my chances / diabetes?!
Question: My mom was type 1 and died when I was 16, she was 34. I am now 37....I had gestational diabetes with my 2nd child 2years ago...controlled with diet only. My recent fasting was 99 and my A1C was 5.4...I had alot of scary situations as a child with my mom, (who didnt take care of herself good) but diabetes almost scares me now from all of it with her......So what are my chances with readings like I have???
I do eat low carb/sugar free.
Answers: My mom was type 1 and died when I was 16, she was 34. I am now 37....I had gestational diabetes with my 2nd child 2years ago...controlled with diet only. My recent fasting was 99 and my A1C was 5.4...I had alot of scary situations as a child with my mom, (who didnt take care of herself good) but diabetes almost scares me now from all of it with her......So what are my chances with readings like I have???
I do eat low carb/sugar free.
Your values are absolutely perfect now. However, considering your family's history, have the A1C done every 6 months. If you notice a change in your behavior, like excessive thirst, urination, cravings for sweets, these symptoms can be an early indication of a possible problem with your glucose metabolism. Continue with a diet with proteins and veggies, low starch (carbohydrates) and exercise regularly.
You should not bother much about diabetes. Just keep it under control as long as possible by diet and exercise. By diet and exercise diabetes can be kept under control for long. otherwise you need to hypoglycemic agents / insulin to keep it under control. but when ever your doctor advice for insulin don't run away from it as insulin is better option.
what is important is to keep your blood sugar under control and also to maintain your ideal body weight. strictly follow a diabetic diet.
also seek advice from any nutritionist which she can tell you according to your likings and dis likings and according to your blood reports.
if you try to keep every thing under control you don't have to worry about any thing. there is no need to scare so much about diabetes.
you will just keep yourself very much healthy by having healthy diabetic diet. just have faith in your self and in god. take good care of your self which your mother never did for her self?
good luck...
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Your mom had diabetes back in the dark ages!! So did mine! They did not have access to the nice glucometers we have so they never knew what their actual glucose readings were. They only knew what they were for yesterday!!
We have much better equipment now in the 21st century. We have the internet for instant knowledge. We can educate ourselves and do some serious control.
If you are not staying really active, get that way. Walk, jog, run, bike for an hour every day. Find a friend to do exercises with!
When checking your glucose numbers: Fasting first thing in the morning! two hours after a meal, just before bedtime. Vary the after meal and bedtime testings.
To check out what various foods do for or to you, test glucose number, eat the food, test again after 90 minutes. If the spike is more than 50 points, eliminate the food. You would be amazed at what is listed as low carb that for you isn't necessarily low glucose!
Keep going with the low carb food plan!!
If you watch your foods, eat on schedule, exercise or be active most of the day, you should be able to keep the formal diagnosis to much later in your life!
The meds we have to combat diabetes in the 21st century are much nicer. So are the insulins we have choices of that our mothers didn't even dream of!!!
It is so much nicer to be diabetic now in the 21st century than it was in the 90s or earlier!! Take heart! You can put this off til you reach the "Golden Age"!