I'm 15 years old, and am pre-diabetic. The doctors I have been to still haven't diagnosed me as Type 1 or Type 2. I've be monitoring my blood gluclose lately, and I've noticed that after almost every meal, my blood glucose level rises to around 350. An hour after that, it normally lowers to around 150-160. During that hour after I eat, I experiece slight headaches, nausea, tirdness, and excessive thirst. Should I be taking insulin, or does it lower speedy enough by itself? All in all, I'm still worried roughly the fact that my blood sugar rises this high. Any advise?
Answers:    As long as your glucose is returning toward normals within 2 hours NO insulin is not indicated at this time. If it stayed up there, Yes, it would be indicated to take insulins.

Either you are in the honeymoon stage of type 1 or you are a type 2 diabetic.

But most of us hold the glucose levels to go up that high but not come down no event if we are type 1 or 2 without any medications.

My advice is to devour very low carb food plan such as Atkins phase 3 or 4 or South Beach phase 2. It helps a great deal if we don't challange our system to walk to the moon then come back down. Very few if any grains, cereal, root veggies, soft sweet fruits, and most milk products. That leaves meats and salads to eat. I think you will find if your glucose doesn't stir to the moon, then you won't have the headaches, etc.

Also double up on your exercising! Exercising can be as simple as walking to university and back, biking, whatever you like to do. Nasty weather?? Walk within the mall, museum, somewhere you can walk for an hour without problems.

150 to 160 is still doing trash to your nerves, blood vessels and eyes as well as other systems in your bod. Yes! You should be worried and totally concerned!!

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you arent type 1 clearly..because with type 1 your pancreas produces no insulin at alll, and you arent taking any and your blood sugar drops

if me, for example, were to eat my blood sugar would merely raise and raise

i dont think you should be taking insulin, because you a short time ago stabalize a little after, you could go really low if you do.

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Try to eat proportioned meal, high boold glucose like that is a result of too much of a well brought-up thing, fried foods starches, and sugars. No koolaid, soda or dressings like bbq sauce they are all elevated in sugars. Each serving should be no bigger than the plam of your hand. Fill up on veggies not potatos, and talk to your doctor a.s.a.p. Source(s): I'm a nurses assistant, beside insulin certification

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Your doctors are the only ones who can answer that question. Please ask them.

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you should be keeping a copy of this and showing it to your doctor, better yet, go see him right after you have ate, and agree to him test your blood sugar so he can see for himself, he should be giving you a glucose tolerance test and doing blood work including a hemoglobin A1c test.

Please enlighten your doctor about the fluctuating blood sugars, I'm not trying to scare you but this is dangerous, and you're young-looking, you don't need to be having complications with your kidneys or eyes or blood vessel or any other of your organs so soon in life, get your sugar below control, cut back on your carbs now..and please inform your doctor about this as soon as possible, does your parents know? save please tell them and soon, diabetics can have a long healthy time without any complications as long as they take care of themselves and hang on to their blood sugar stable and under control.

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Hi Chuck.

Your doctor(s) haven't diagnosed you as either type 1 or type 2 precisely because you are neither at the moment. You are pre-diabetic. This means that you probably own some insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes OR you're going through the 'honeymoon stage' of type 1 diabetes.

You should be checking your blood sugar level after 2 hours post meal, not 1 hour, but that's beside the point.

Although your blood sugar levels are at 150-160 mg/dL one hour after consumption and are still a little high, it's doubtful that your doctor will consider utilising insulin ... at least not but.

To aid yourself in not developing full blown diabetes you need to make sure you're ingestion a good diet, and that you take more exercise. (A good diet would consist of limiting the amount of carbohydrates you're consumption ... cut back on things that are white, such as bread, potatoes, pasta, etc.)

Exercise works in two ways to help. First of adjectives, it makes your body less resistant to the effects of insulin, and secondly it helps the insulin that is to say present to transport glucose from your bloodstream into the muscles where it's converted to energy.

I do hope, young sir, that you're keeping a text of your blood sugar levels so that you can show them to your doctor(s). This will aid them in which way to approach treatment for you, and determine whether further carrying out tests is necessary.

Be well, Chuck.

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Don't worry Chuck! I anticipate, be concerned but I do know a couple ppl your age who have had diabetes all their natural life.
On the other hand, if you're prediabetic, you can put off insulin for as long as possible by eating an as sugar-free diet as possible. Things approaching vegetables, an occasional fruit, bran, cereal, whole-wheat grains instead of white bread and rice, and a bit of meat at each meal. Salads are awesome. And exercise will also lower your blood glucose level drastically - don't sit there for hours after you eat. Other than that SLEEP WELL and STAY HAPPY and DON'T STRESS. Those are the main key to keeping your blood glucose under control :)
Good luck and bee happy. Insulin is only your final resort.

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