My daughter has been having intermittent hyperglycemic episodes over the past 4 months. She is 4 and small (not overweight). The doctor did a fasting insulin test and a glucose tolerance test. She actually did well on the gtt--80 fasting and 82 after 2 hours.
HOWEVER, she has had over 7 postprandial bg numbers over 200 at home in the past 2 weeks. She always comes back down on her own eventually. Her high blood glucose really appears to come and go. Some days good and other days she can go really high.
Her fasting insulin, however, was 1.4, and that seems very low to me. The nurse said normal was 1.7 to 22 and online it indicates that 5-20 is typical. The doctor said that only high numbers matter and a high number would indicate insulin resistance. Since it was low and out of the normal range he was unconcerned. Is it true that the low level means nothing? Even in light of her erratically high blood glucose numbers? Wouldn't low insulin also be an indication of a problem?
2007-03-06
04:54:53
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Stacy R
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