New and need advice

[beetkvass]

I went to the ER today with what I thought were symptoms of an allergic reaction, turns out it was mostly an anxiety attack. However my random blood sugar was 198..or 190 something. The ER told me that I need to see my primary care physician within the next 3-5 days to get tested. He said it was not horribly high..but too high..but he was not saying I had diabetes..so he said.

I have had labs done twice recently. There were not fasting just random. But one I know was 95 and the other not out of range because they didn't note it was. I am very concerned about an prediabetes or diabetes diagnosis. Beyond simply not wanting to have this!!..it is an uninsurable condition in my state of GA. I am currently on state health insurance that I will lose in March and will not be able to get again barring something horrible like my husband has no more work. After that if I have a diagnosis of diabetes I will be out of luck getting health insurance.

I was just reading Dr Atkins Diabetes Revolution online. He said to eat carbs for a few days before any testing to show what it does to get baselines. Well, if I plan to stick to this diet and improves my blood sugar why not do it now before the testing? If it means I will possibly still be insurable....I am not sure how helpful it would truly be to me to not start the diet now for a week before any testing is done. What would you do? If it doesn't help quickly and I really have serious issues that need drugs..so be it. But I am so tempted to just start this diet right now for any help I can get. I am already exercising every day now and have for nearly 3 weeks. I have made HUGE changes in my lifestyle and plan to stick with them.

I was just not prepared for this.....

[homeseeker]

Re: New and need advice

By all means start the diet now and be very strict about it. . You will most likely pass a blood glucose test if you do this even for a few days but it is too late to fool a A1c, Maybe they won't do one.
The advise to eat carbs before testing was to be able to point to the diet as the caouse for later success.
Good luck.

[imagood1]

Re: New and need advice

If you are going to your primary care physician to be tested as a follow up from the ER the first thing they should do is an A1C. That will tell if you are actually diabetic and what your starting A1C number is.

You should get to the doctor and start Atkins or whatever plan the doctor advises (if you want to) as soon as possible. I was diagnosed Type 2 last July - in January I started Atkins and I've taken my A1C from 10.3 to 5.0 since then. Many people have gone from taking diabetes medicine to not taking any after a few months on Atkins - but you shouldn't do anything without your doctors ok first.

Good luck.

[homeseeker]

Re: New and need advice

If you start that way you may not get insurance. My suggestion was for a way to be sure of getting insurance.