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

By: TheOrange Evil

TheOrange Evil — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:13:59 +0000

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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By: pbourdeaux

pbourdeaux — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:56:59 +0000

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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By: zygote222

zygote222 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:27:59 +0000

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/

By: Its cold outside!

Its cold outside! — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:10:59 +0000

I'm sorry that person is rude. But to answer...that would be considered diabetes.
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By: Liv

Liv — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:22:59 +0000

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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By: jellybean

jellybean — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:03:59 +0000

Diabetes..
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By: budswifedml

budswifedml — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:43:59 +0000

My doctor would diagnose that as diabetic
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