[Ronin]

Hi Sandmdc!

Okay, what is your fasting C-Peptide level? Your FBG and HbA1c results say clearly that you have a problem with your body managing glucose levels. But if you do not know the rate of insulin production of your body you do not know the cause.

I have a strong suspicion that you, like a lot of other fit and not overweight people diagnosed as Pre-D, have a low producing pancreas or a pancreas that is failing. If that is, in fact, the problem, met will not make things better becuause you are not Insulin Resistant -- you may well be Insulin Insufficient. The treatment for Insulin Insufficiency is "Insulin."

To be sure, much of medicine is trial and error, but there is a test to determine the insulin production of your pancreas and that is the C-Peptide test.

Unless you have had the C-Peptide check your MD is making the presumption that all adult onset diabetics are Type-2 and therefore IR -- sorry that is not the case. I know because I know six other people that have gone through the mill only to, in some cases years later, find out that all they needed was insulin. So much for trial-and-error.

Apologies for the rant, but this is an issue that makes my blood boil -- MD's simply handing out prescriptions without really knowing what is causing a problem. The process is called "Anchoring" where the "professional" makes a diagnosis and hangs on until there is clear evidence that he is wrong and even then many will not admit that they were wrong.