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Originally Posted by MelodyL
Brian:
We will be going to see his primary guy, Dr. Fred (our favorite guy), on Monday. He should then have the results of all the blood work that was done by the lab (it's just down the block from Dr. Fred's office).
When Dr. Fred looks at the blood work from the 3 hour glucose tolerance test, WILL THAT TELL HIM THAT ALAN IS PRE-DIABETIC? or will that say "oh, he was pre-diabetic but he no longer is pre-diabetic?"
Or will it just say nothing if the numbers aren't what they should be.
I mean, what exactly are they supposed to find from a 3 hour blood glucose tolerance test.
And if it's found to be that Alan was pre-diabetic but that because of his lifestyle change, his yoga, his going to the gym 4 times a week, if that is a good thing?... well, can they do SOMETHING about his PN?
lots of questions, I know.....
Melody
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I think Glentaj explained it all very well like he always does, but surely this can't be Alan's first glucose tolerance test in 18 years of PN ?.
When he first got PN was he looking after himself, like he is now ? that MAY give a clue ?, but its going to be impossible to work it out without prior sugar tests to compare with these new findings, it MAY have been pre or frank diabetes that started it all off in the first place, its also very possible that it may have only stated only a couple years back.
All that loss of weight and exercise would have brought his glucose levels down a lot, so perhaps he might have had much higher sugar levels before i he started doing all the exercises and loosing all that weight.
When i was in my early 40's i still remember my doc saying to me that now your in your 40's, your over weight,[ i hardly done any exercise too ] he said your a good candidate for diabetes, well he wasn't far wrong, 6 to 8 years later i had prediabetes.
Seeing he gets relief from that Chiro/neuro then it may have just been his back that started it off first and the pre or diabetes added to it later on, its a hard one to work out
It sounds like his in good hands with Dr Goldfarb,