What can I do to prevent diabetes if I'm pre-diabetic?

Question

I recently had a blood test and my fasting glucose was 102, which means I'm high-risk for developing diabetes. I weight 122 pounds and am 5'6". I have a very balanced diet, and don't even like sweets or sodas. I exercise several times a week and walk a lot. I have very low cholestrol and even lower blood pressure. I'm 36 and don't have any history of diabetes in my family.
Is there anything I can do to prevent diabetes? Is it hopeless?

Answer 1

No, it doesn't mean you're at risk. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a fasting 102. You're doing everything right already.

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Answer 5

A fasting glucose of 102 mg/dL or 5.7 mmol/L does NOT mean that you are at high risk of developing diabetes. Your body mass index of 20 kg/m2 indicates that you are quite lean and although type 2 diabetes may occur in lean individuals it is typically found in those with body mass indexes above 30. The 'normal' fasting glucose value continues to be redefined and refined with the goal becoming lower and lower. Normal is presently defined as less than 100 mg/dL or 5.6 mmol/L BUT this does not mean that if you are slightly above this you are pre-diabetic or at high risk of developing diabetes. Indeed blood tests are only so accurate and if the same sample of blood were run again it might be 98 mg/dL or 5.4 mmol/L which would be considered normal as noted above. I will admit that I do follow patients with fasting glucose values above 100 mg/dL or 5.6 mmol/L but I do not frighten them. That is unkind. In addition no comment regarding your risk should be made based upon a single reading. Finally if there were concern the physician would have run a blood test called glycated hemoglobin A1C which gives the average glucose over the past 90 days. I would encourage you to have your glucose followed but not to be frightened or overly concerned based upon a single reading.

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Answer 7

first of all, that number is great! I dont see why you are soo worried. Your doing just fine. eating anything and drinking anything can cause a higher blood sugar, just getting up and moving around will cause flucuations. Dont worry about a thing, it sounds like you are very healthy. Just keep getting tested regularly, and relax. Diabetes is not the end of the world

Answer 8

first of your results aren't that bad, DM is diagnosed with a fasting glucose of 126 or more on two separate occasions so just because your at 102 on one try doesn't mean anything. sounds like you don't have any predisposing risk factors for DM so just keep eating healthy and exercising.

Answer 9

The best thing that you can do is work closely with your doctor and nutritionist to stay on top of this before it becomes a bigger problem. Some people are just genetically predisposed to get diabetes, even if it doesn't run in your family, and more and more people are getting it today than ever before. Just stay on top of it and do what your doc says.

Answer 10

Sunshine

The best thing would be to go onto a low sugar diet, just cut out the sugar loaded food, eat more whole foods that includes white rice, bread & flour exchange it for brown.

Carbs are recognised by the body as sugar & that is what they are broken down to. So at least brown slows that down.

Go back to ur Drs & ask to see a dietition.

Pam