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insulin resistance/prediabetes normal levels

Hi there
Recently my doctor said my fasting was a little bit high at 5.6mmo/l (101mg/dl). I bought a glucometer and have been testing.Sometimes my fastings have been 5.8 or oveer but mostly they are aorund 5.3-ish. I got an OGTT test (from another dr) and it came back normal (although the fasting level was just under the cut off point for prediabetes).

Based on my glucometer readings my doctor still thinks that I may have a problem. I have to go see and endocrinologist in a few weeks. In the meantime the doctor has told me to keep testing after meals etc. The thing is I'm not really sure what i should be looking for. There's not much on the internet. I know that youre supposed to keep it under 7.8mmo/l or damage begins to occur to the body and I ahve read many different figures given for post prandial readings
But as a baseline I'd really like to know the expected NORMAL (non-diabetic) levels for:
*1 hour afterr a meal
*2 hours after a meal

One more question - I sometimes go the gym before breakfast and have foudn that exercise actually causes my (still fasting) blood sugar to rise wheras I would have expected it to fall. Is this a normal phenomenon?

many thanks
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Normal is generally 70-90 fasting and 100-120 at the highest after meals. We try and keep our blood sugar under 100 fasting and under 140 two hours after meals. For some of us any bread, crackers, sugar, cereal, etc raises our blood sugar too high, others are less sensitive. The key is to test 2 hours after eatingand see what keeps your blood sugar in range, we are all different.

I've not heard of a menopause/type 2 connection, it is just the most common age for it to appear.
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Thanks Zoelula
I forgot to mention that I had made dietary changes and had begun to lose wieght ( 6-7 kilos and am half way to my ideal weight).
I continue to monitor and want to try and keep my numbers as close to normal, non-diabetic numbers as much as possible.
They are pretty good, but I havent attempted to eat anything that might cause them to spike (although mistakenly I ate weet bix thinking it was low gi and my blood sugar  shot right up!)
I notice that there are lots of sites that say what a diabetic should bee keeping their ranges in but no info for 'what normal' is.
I'm also going through an early-ish menopause and am wondering if its just coincidence that these two things coincided?
Many thanks
Regards
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This is an unusual thing in my experience, for a doctor to be concerned when the numbers don't warrent it; usually it's the opposite, they tell you "it's nothing" when you are pre-diabetes. Sounds like you have a good doctor.

With your numbers and your OGTT test coming back normal, I wouldn't be overly concerned. To answer your question, non-diabetics it would be very rare to exceed 120 at any time, no matter what they eat. Exercise is tricky, sometimes it lowers sometimes it raises blood sugar; you would have to talk to someone who knows about it to know which kinds of exercise at which times have what effect. In your situation I would begin to make some changes such as losing any extra weight you carry, stopping sugar and reducing carbs some if you eat a high carb diet. Then check back periodically to make sure your blood sugar hasn't risen.
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