What do I do if I have pre diabetes?

Answer 1

That is something you should be consulting your doctor with.

Answer 2

Diabetes is often a silent condition early on, without many manifestations that can be specifically found on physical examination. This is because early diabetes is characterized by a mild increase in the average glucose levels in your blood. This mild increase is not sufficient to cause any acute damage to your body but, over the long-term, can place one at risk for significant risk mortality from heart & kidney disease, neuropathies, and further endocrine derrangements.

Mild or pre-diabetes can be diagnosed in a variety of ways, the most commonly being a fasting glucose greater than 100 and less than 126 measured twice. This is the earliest phase of diabetes and it is characterized by decreased pancreatic function. In other words, your pancreas is still able to produce insulin, but it's starting to fail, allowing your blood sugar to remain elevated longer after a meal.

If you have pre-diabetes, your focus should on a good diet and exercise. Maximizing weight loss while maintaining proper nutrition is the ideal scenario. Because you have pre-diabetes, you most likely have pre-type II diabetes, which is usually characterized by obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc. All of these could, in theory, be significantly reduced with proper exercise and weight loss.

DIetary approaches seek to reduce how much you eat per meal and increase the number of meals throughout the day. In essence, you'd have multiple small meals versus heavy meals that can easily cause your pancreas to lose immediate control of blood sugar. Remember, the higher you allow your average blood sugars to become, the more damage is done to your pancreas as it attempts to control them. However, you should also remember that hight blood sugars are not lethal unless extremely high while even minute drops in blood sugar can be fatal. Thus, maintaining a balance is key, eating in proportion to demand.

Exercise will allow you to lose weight but also allow your body to become more sensitive to insulin, effectively reducing how much insulin your pancreas needs to produce; this has a number of positive effects on your overall metabolism.

Some entities advise towards medicating individuals with early-diabetes with agents such as metformin (glucophage) because these agents have been shown to delay the onset of full-blown type-II diabetes mellitus. They do have their side-effects and, as a result, are something worth discussing with your doctor in detail. Clearly, you would benefit from further information, which you can find at the American Diabetes Association:

http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp

Answer 3

prediabetics or borderline as some doctors put it should sometimes explain themselves but they dont'. if your surgar is over 100 that is bad. if yours is that then you should be talking to specialist. it is bad for all your parts to be conjected tot his. it tried to mess up organs and stuff. even the eyes are connected to this. you need to get on diet and lose weight and then you will not be borderline but you will have to watch the weight. later in life you will be and the best you take careof yourself the better. eat no fried foods if you must do it once a week or less. then you eat broiled or stuff like that meat. eat alot of veggies. try not to eat startches. the thing is all the food you eat turns to sugar. but the less you have to begin with is good. you will see yourselflosing weight also. i did this once and it was unbelieveable. 20 minues fast walking a day you can lose wight and watch what you are eating. does not mean don't totally dis gage from foodyou like just once a week is fine. not too much in fact if you are hungary maybe eat less 6 times aday that helps also.

Answer 4

This Site Might Help You.

RE:
What do I do if I have pre diabetes?

Answer 5

ok first there really is no such thing as "pre-diabetes" this is a term some Dr. came up with to say that your at high risk. If you are at high risk there are af ew things you can do. You can start to eat a little healthier, exercise more, if your overweight try to lose a little weight even 5 pounds will help tremendously. Just keep checking in with your Dr. and work with them to help get those numbers down.

Answer 6

Be glad that you have been warned that you are "high risk". There have been many good answers already. Do what you can to not become doctor diagnosed, and becomes listed in your MIB (medical information Bureau) that companies can access about your medical history. Once that happens it becomes very difficult to get health, life, long term care coverage. I am in the insurance industry and was told a year ago, didn't realize what that does to you getting coverage till then. So get what coverage you can while you still have your health. It will be difficult or impossible once you are.

Answer 7

Treat yourself as if you have diabetes already,if you start now,watching your diet and stay away from anything white ex.bread rice pasta etc.to can delay the diease longer,

Answer 8

Are you a newly diagnosed diabetic? You will need to purchase a glucometer and keep track of your blood sugar level. Good numbers are 80-160. Below 80 is hypoglycemic(low sugar). Above 160 hyperglycemic too much sugar. See your doctor if you havent been diagnosed.

Answer 9

watch out your diet,do exercise and consult your diabetic educator or a doctor.

Answer 10

You are not alone, first of all. There are SO many people with the same question.

I am sure you will find some good answers in the two links below.

Best of luck!

Answer 11

I hate the words pre-diabetic. You either have it or you don't.