still testing?

[velvet]

ok well in two full days of testing I have only had one fairly high result. Dinners seem to be when my numbers get their highest with the last 3 dinners look like this:

before:99 one hour:153** two hour:107 (thin sliced ham,1/2 sweet potatoe, water)

before:116 one hour: 133 two hour:105 (chicken, corn, salad)

before: 99 one hour: 124 two hour:108 (2 hard shelled taco's with beef, salsa, skim milk)

my fasting 8-10 hours are 95, 98, 100..

my symptoms are nausea, vomiting(had GI workup..neg), numbness/tingling hands and feet, dizziness, lightheaded. I feel sick prior to eating, eat feel a bit better and feel even worse within an hour or so. I have woke up nauseous went to the sink turned to go back to bed and felt as if I might black out quite a few times. It scared my husband. Had a 9lb 1 oz baby girl in august, negative for GD at the time. I am concerned about my fasting numbers never going below 90 and the 153 one hour but am not sure if I should continue testing since my other numbers are ok so far. Could this be very early prediabetes? Is it normal to have normal numbers followed by a few spikes here or there. What I read on Bloodsugar101.com had me concerned because it said ND should never go over 140 or even have numbers that creep close to it..ie 133 and that over 90 fasting should probably be considered early signs of prediabetes and should be addressed with the possibility of small blood vessel damage already occurring.

[GayleM]

First, I'm no doctor. But here's the way I read this...yes, if you go over 145 your body is not processing normally. However, if you have an infection of any kind that can raise BG in even normal people.


before:99 one hour:153** two hour:107 (thin sliced ham,1/2 sweet potatoe, water)
How long since you'd eaten before this meal? You could have been at the start of a liver dump from not eating and the meal just added to it. The potato might not work for you as it doesn't for many. What was the carb count for this meal?

before:116 one hour: 133 two hour:105 (chicken, corn, salad)
looks good.

before: 99 one hour: 124 two hour:108 (2 hard shelled taco's with beef, salsa, skim milk)
Really good numbers considering the taco shells & milk. I couldn't get those numbers eating that.

my fasting 8-10 hours are 95, 98, 100..

Not uncommon for "normal" folks to have fasting numbers in the 90's all the time...if you have just a single 100 here and there I'm not sure that is a red flag.

I don't recognize the other symptoms as things I ever felt as a "pre" and the one spike could be from infection, as I said.

I would suggest you get to your Doc and have a fasting glucose test and an A1C done. That will tell you how your body is really handling glucose.

Good luck!

[genie86333]

I just wanted to second what Gayle said - a couple of your numbers are a tiny bit high, however, for the most part they're pretty good, but your best bet is to have more testing done.

The A1C will show you what your average blood sugar has been over the last 3 months & the glucose tolerance test will show how your body does both fasting & after a significant amount of glucose on an empty stomach. Between those two things, you should find out if there's a problem.