Slight apprehesive (UK)

[littlewoodja]

Hi

Not yet been diagnosed as a dibetic, although my father was a type 1 from the age of 25 - I am 38.

I have been feeling quite unwell over the past 2 weeks and over the past week I have had 4 blood readings, with very little food as I have either been vomiting or just not wanting to eat.

The Readings have been 6.1, 6.4, 7.0 and today 4.1.

I have an appointment with the hospital tomorrow for a fasting test and am slightly apprehensive. I know it is a livable disease but one I would not prefer.

Andy

[4519]

The fasting numbers will tell you a lot more. You did not mention the details about each of the test you took. These numbers are not alarming, at all. If the 7.0 was a fasting test then that one would be right at the lowest level of a type 2 diabetic. The others are below that one and show, perhaps, Impared Glucose Tolerance - or pre-diabetic range. You have to take the test at the correct time to get an accurate result.

What you have said this appears to be more like pre-diabetes, though wait until you see the doctor. The good news is the treatment for pre-diabetes and someone on the low end of the diabetic scale is similar or the same - diet and exercise - basicaly a lifestyle change.

[littlewoodja]

Many thanks for your reply.

From what I remember from my father and what I have read on the Net - I thought that the readings might indicate pre-diabetic. The 4.1 did ease me a bit as the reading were taken on Tuesday (6.1) with no food since Sunday night - Thursday (6.4) just a few slices of toast n Wednesday - Sunday (7.0) ate fairly well Saturday and a bowl of cereal on the Sunday about 4 hours before the test and today (4.1) 13.30 no food since Sunday night.

Anyway thanks for your input - much appreciated.

Andy

[DeusXM]

I wouldn't be too worried. There's nothing wrong with your BG readings - for someone who's ill, they look like your sugar's under control. ALL people, diabetic or not, get a rise in BG levels when they're ill, but in the case of people with diabetes they tend to go much higher than 7.0. 7 is actually a pretty standard reading for a non-diabetic shortly after a meal anyway.

In all honesty, you're too old to develop T1, and a parent having T1 isn't really correlated with offspring developing T2. If you're concerned then obviously get tested - it's much better to nip this thing in the bud before it can do any real damage. However I would say you probably don't have anything to worry about.

[jenet]

...In all honesty, you're too old to develop T1...
Not necessarily. I was DXed with T1 at 39. It may be less common, but it is possible. :)

cheers,
j

[Belinda]

Well I am glad your going to the doc. take in the results that you have done and any thing you documented for him/her to see. Try not to stress as this will also raise your blood sugar levels. Good luck and keep us posted

[littlewoodja]

So many replies and I dont know any of you. You are all very kind.

I had my blood test yesterday and I have to go back to the hospital today at 2pm. The illness seems to have gone, ie sickness and the like - but I still have my thirst, general tiredness and just feeling down and frequent urinating.

WHat I forgot to tell you all was on Monday I again was taken up to hospital. I had to go to the shop which is about a 10 minutes walk from my house. On the way back, I remember feeling very light headed with a sensation of feeling drunk. I remember falling to the floor and then the next thing I knew I was at my neighbours house. Apparently I was drooped over the wall half out of it.

They got me inside and I was not very coherant, she gave me a drink of orange squash - I know that their squash is a sweetened one - which by the time I got to hospital - and was waiting for the triage nurse - I came round not really knowing where I was. When her and her husband tried to lift me to the car, I just slipped through their arms as if I was drunk and my skin colour was grey according to Debbie.

I may not be diabetic, either full or partially, but the symptons I have, and have had, are sure very similar.

Thanks for listening all, and I will let you know later what my results are.

Cheers

Andy

[littlewoodja]

Well I have got back from the hospital who told me - what I really did not want to hear and now have to make an appointment to see my doctor.

My fasting sugar level was 8.5 which they said I had a Glucose Intorelance or something. I asked if this was the same as Pre-Diabetic which the doc said it was.

I am not sure if this puts me in the diabetic catagory but if it does here is a reluctant newbie and if it doesn't surely will not be long before I do become a reluctant newbie.

My head is up my (you know what) at the moment - they really wouldn't give me a lot of info just referring me to my GP.

If SKS could help shed any light I would be grateful. They told me to eat sensible and often ie: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Supper. I do have an active job, multidrop delivery driver, 5ft 4" and just under 8.5 stone - have lost a bit of weight recently.

I don't have a lot of sugar anyway - cut it out about 15 years ago and now hate the stuff although I am partial to some chocolate everynow and again. I really would like some info before I go back to my GP - forewarned is forearmed as they say.

As I said earlier my father was a type 1 so understand a fair bit, but will I be prone to hypos etc.

Many thanks

Andy (UK)

[Just_Plain_John]

Well Andy, keep an eye on your weight loss, especially with other symptoms like being VERY tired or lacking energy, thirst, poor vision (it's not just age !), etc. I was exhibiting most of these before I was diagnosed Type 1 at nearly age 44. I have a cousin who was diagnosed Type1 similarly late.

Be cheered though - we're doing well, just watch for those other symptoms so you don't end up going through the emergency drama I did when diagnosed.

[Simon]

This would be a good time to start counting carbs. About 40g per meal is about right. Avoid high carb foods; not just sugar. Anything made with flour or fruit can also be bad news.

[4519]

You ask if you would be prone to hypo's. If you are type 2, or in the pre-diabetic range you won't be prone to hypo's. The nature of type 2 is the opposite. If and when you take medications then you could have that problem face you - and if you have to go on insulin then that would be a possibility also. It is not like type 1 in that you control with diet and exercise mainly and those usually don't drive you hypo. Well, food should never drive you low - exercise can.

You and your dad have different diseases(if you are type 2 diabetic) but with the same name. Treatment for each is the samem, but then all together different. With type 2 still produce insulin to some degree, and because of the insulin resistance almost all type 2's have you end up with too much insulin - type 1 produce no insulin or such a small amount to not be of any use.