Comments on: How To Avoid Diabetes And Cure Prediabetes https://healthhype.com/how-to-avoid-diabetes-and-cure-prediabetes.html Current Health Articles on Symptoms, Diseases and Treatment Sat, 06 Oct 2018 22:30:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: HealthHype https://healthhype.com/how-to-avoid-diabetes-and-cure-prediabetes.html#comment-92279 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:04:00 +0000 http://www.healthhype.com/?p=24699#comment-92279 In reply to Lil25.

Hi Lil25. The OGTT is still the preferred method for diagnosing type 2 diabetes by many practitioners. It provides definitive results within a few hours. The A1C is nevertheless useful, especially for monitoring a diabetic every few months. The A1C test can also be used for diagnosis because it shows your average blood glucose levels over the preceding months and does not depend on whether you are fasting or had just taken your medication when the sample is collected. A fasting blood glucose or random blood glucose are unreliable tests for diagnosing diabetes.

]]> By: Lil25 https://healthhype.com/how-to-avoid-diabetes-and-cure-prediabetes.html#comment-92261 Sat, 14 Nov 2015 05:37:00 +0000 http://www.healthhype.com/?p=24699#comment-92261 Get the OGTT!!! DO NOT rely on fasting or A1C numbers! My fasting blood glucose is consistently in the low 80s (you have to get over 126 to be diagnosed with diabetes by fasting blood glucose only!), and my A1C was 5.4, but I failed the 3 hour OGTT in my first trimester and was automatically diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, NOT gestational diabetes! Now, I will have Diabetes forever, and there is absolutely nothing in the world I can do to ever get rid of that diagnosis! I really wish I had done the OGTT earlier so that we could have caught it when I was prediabetic because prediabetes can be cured, but actual type 2 can not!

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