Young and Prediabetic
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Anonymous
Her fasting blood sugar is 110. Non-fasting would be much higher than that. My child was experiencing symptoms months before diagnosis. |
Anonymous
No, please don't take this advice. T1D is not caused or cured by diet. |
Anonymous
Her numbers are not fine. 118 fasting is extremely concerning in a 19 year old. Her eating 0 carb protein and the number going down does not negate the first number. Dawn phenomenon is the reason why. |
Anonymous
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The responses on this topic are fascinating and helpful reminder on why you should never take medical advice from an online anonymous forum
I’m 100% positive that all of the people saying that there’s nothing wrong and that OP is just fine or that they should just “check in with their doctor” or that they “don’t need an endo” have no experience whatsoever with type one diabetes. After this, I don’t think I’d even take hangnail advice from you people. It’s OK to not know what you’re talking about. It’s not OK to be absolutely insistent about telling someone not to see a doctor (or decide what kind of doctor they need) when you have no idea what you’re talking about. Some of you are giving advice that is not only misguided, but actually dangerous. |
Anonymous
| Please please please go see a physician. Please. You are young enough your pediatrician will still see you. You cannot DIY this stuff. |
Anonymous
This person said they’ve seen a doctor and had lab work. In fact they’ve seen multiple doctors for multiple perceived issues. It’s actually ok to tell people to wait for results and to consider working on their anxiety |
Anonymous
| It is 1) genetic and 2) your diet. Enough with the sugar and carbs. |
Anonymous
If LW is struggling with extreme medical anxiety that is also a reason to see a physician. But what's going on right now definitely isn't a good idea. |
Anonymous
It’s not cured by diet, but part of living with any form of diabetes is learning how to manage your diet. |
Anonymous
It’s also been 88. Her highest recorded sugar, after eating, was 130. Her numbers mean nothing. |
Anonymous
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I’m the poster that said that you people who don’t know what you’re talking about need to stop talking and I’d like to reiterate that you need to stop talking. Or actually, you just need to think more. Please stop telling a stranger that they are fine when you’re not a doctor and you don’t know what you’re talking about. And for your own sake, if you feel certain that something is wrong with you medically, I hope that people never dismiss you as “just anxious” and tell you to fix cancer with your diet.
So you think she’s fine because her doctor “ran labs”. Do you know what labs? Do you know what results? What’s an endocrinologist or was it a primary care doctor? Do you know if they’re the correct labs because if they’re assuming it’s two, they did not. And whoever thinks that if she’s type one, she needs to “work on her diet either way” Again does not understand T1D. It is a personal choice about whether or not you want to make diet changes - not a medical recommendation. And waking up at 88 once or even once a week does not make a fasting blood sugar in the 118 range okay at age 19. I guess you get what you pay for on a public anonymous forum. But for future reference, all of you people that are saying these numbers are not normal actually have no idea what you are talking about. So if you ever find yourself in these shoes, where you are often waking with a blood sugar of 115 to 120, that is a problem that needs to be addressed and diagnosed. It is never normal or OK for a 19 year old And to clarify, for one of them many uninformed people that thinks the blood sugar is fine because sometimes it’s below 100, this is what it looks like when your pancreas is struggling to function properly. Sometimes it’s under producing, but sometimes it can overproduce as well. You’ve got multiple people commenting on this thread with diabetic family members all saying that these are not normal blood sugar numbers. OP may also have anxiety. But that still doesn’t make all this erroneous advice, correct. I don’t even know why I’m trying to reason with people who are so obstinate and also so uniformed, but why can’t you just use AI or something? Like at least follow up and think “could I be wrong?” and Google or use ChatGPT for 10 seconds. |
Anonymous
This could be very true. Do you have any skin tags?? This can also be a sign that your blood sugar is too high…… |
Anonymous
NP. If it’s type 1, none of these things will make any meaningful difference to disease progression. |