Question:
The question you need to answer is this: What are your blood sugars after
eating a meal with carbs?
Fasting blood sugars can stay in the normal range long after a person is
reaching diabetic levels after every meal. Mine sure did.
If your blood sugars after meals are going over 140 mg/dl by 2 hours, most
endocrinologists would say you had "pre-diabetes." If they go over 200
mg/dl more than once you are officially diabetic according to the American
Diabetes Association and World Health Organization diagnostic criteria.
If your doctor hasn't suggested testing after meals or doing a glucose
tolerance test, find a better, more up-to-date doctor. Meanwhile, go to
Wal-mart, buy yourself a cheapie (but pretty accurate) Relion meter and
start testing your blood sugar after meals.
Delaying can do very bad things to your risk of having a heart attack.
Elevated blood sugars are a far more predictive measure than cholesterol,
though most doctors who treat high cholesterol as if it were a death
sentence ignore high post meal blood sugars until they are.
Answer:
Well not a real easy answer for that question. If the person is type
1 and are stable at 99 US 5.5 UK, and using insulin (which would
really be the only thing for a type 1), that would be great.
For a type 2, that of course depends on so many factors, ranging from
age, other meds that person might be already taking, conditions the
person might have that would make taking some diabetes meds a problem
if not impossible, allergies to certain meds and the groups those meds
belong to. And then there of course is where the person lives as to
what may even be available in that part of the world as far as
medicine for diabetes.
