[Ronin]

Hi Geneal!

Your post on testing at 0430 and then later says that the reason for your FBG levels is caused by the Dawn Effect/Phenemon (DP). That being said, your determined course of action: "Tomorrow I will try to go 'till at least 10:00 before eating, & will take readings and post them here." indicates that you don't understand the mechanism that is at work.

The DP is your bodys reaction to the need for energy to get things going. Delaying the eating of breakfast can result in you getting so hungry that you over-eat for breakfast, not to mention a wild swing in BG levels while you body is screaming for energy. The fact that your post-breakfast readings are consitently in the 90's says that your pancreas is working and your body is processing insulin. Hence you are not a Type-2 and you are probably not insuln resistant (you need a fasting C-Peptide level to determine the insulin resistance question.)

With an HbA1c of 6.2 you should modify your diet and keep doing exercise to bring it down into the low to mid 5's (my opinion only).

You do need to calm down (easy for me to say, I was exactly where you are now and panicing all over the place). The Pre-Diabetic diagnosis is new and intended to catch people before they become diabetic. The hope of the ADA was to get young people before the onset of Type-2. What actually happened is that thousands of people over-50 are being swept into the Pre-D category with some MD's seeing a single FBG above 100 and handing the person a prescription for diabetes medication (then calling for the next paitient). Your numbers are not bad for your age (I believe age is a factor but that is not a shared opinion). Lower the injested sugars and keep exercising.