If your fasting test was 166 are you immediatly diagnosed or do you have to do another fasting test?

A real fasting test in a lab. Is this cause for diagnosis or do you have to take another fasting test?
um I'm not convinced I have hypoglycemia or diabetes. This isn't even my test result. So please keep your rude comments to yourself.

166 mg/dL is firmly diabetic (>126 mg/dL is an automatic diagnosis), but any doctor worth his salt would perform another test just to make sure. Blood sugar can be affected by the smallest little things, illness or stress. The doctor might decide to test the patient's HbA1c to see what his or her blood sugar has been doing over the past three months and maybe an OGTT (oral glucose tolerance test). If the A1c in the diabetic range (>6.0%) and the OGTT shows diabetes, then there'd be a formal diagnosis. After that, there'd be more tests to determine the pancreas' functionality and the type of diabetes at play.

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7 Responses to “If your fasting test was 166 are you immediatly diagnosed or do you have to do another fasting test?”

  1. budswifedml says:

    My doctor would diagnose that as diabetic
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  2. jellybean says:

    Diabetes..
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  3. Liv says:

    So first you're convinced you're hypoglycemic and now you're wanting us to convince you that you have diabetes? My God. Pick a disease to obsess over and stick with it already. You're just like all those other girls who want diabetes. Go to a doctor for crying out loud.
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  4. Its cold outside! says:

    I'm sorry that person is rude. But to answer…that would be considered diabetes.
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  5. zygote222 says:

    I am always amazed at the number of inaccurate answers in this forum. Both common sense and the official diagnostic protocols say that the test results need to be confirmed by a second test. Otherwise the patient might be condemned to a lifetime of blood glucose monitoring and treatment because of a simple laboratory error.

    Nor is this information particularly hard to find. The following link is just one of thousands that I found from a web search.

    "Test results indicating that a person has diabetes should be confirmed with a second test on a different day."
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    http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/diagnosis/

  6. pbourdeaux says:

    The rule would imply that a fasting blood sugar above 120 is diagnostic for diabetes if it occurs twice. Your friend should get another fasting glucose and a two hour glucose tolerance test. An A1C is also a good idea.

    If the fasting Blood glucose is greater than 120…(+) diabetic. If the 2 hour glucose test is > 140, high with or without an A1C greater than 6, he or she is likely to be a diabetic.
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  7. TheOrange Evil says:

    166 mg/dL is firmly diabetic (>126 mg/dL is an automatic diagnosis), but any doctor worth his salt would perform another test just to make sure. Blood sugar can be affected by the smallest little things, illness or stress. The doctor might decide to test the patient's HbA1c to see what his or her blood sugar has been doing over the past three months and maybe an OGTT (oral glucose tolerance test). If the A1c in the diabetic range (>6.0%) and the OGTT shows diabetes, then there'd be a formal diagnosis. After that, there'd be more tests to determine the pancreas' functionality and the type of diabetes at play.
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