{"id":154789,"date":"2010-01-08T13:21:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T18:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/pre-diabetes\/47397-pre-diabetic-can-i.html"},"modified":"2010-01-08T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T18:21:48","slug":"pre-diabetic-can-i-trust-my-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/154789","title":{"rendered":"Pre-diabetic? Can I trust my meter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I went to the Dr. the other day and asked that I be tested for low thyroid.  I have a lot of those symptoms. I am sure I&#8217;m also pre-menopausal (recent), but the thyroid symptoms came years earlier. Dr. asked about diabetes test and I said, &quot;No, I check my bg  (random)all the time at home because my dog is diabetic.&quot;   I do check it all the time, but since she mentioned it, I thought I would do a first morning fasting test and then check it after each meal.<\/p>\n<p>Upon waking, I tested at 101.<br \/>\n2 hrs after a meal, I tested at 120.<br \/>\nRandom between meal test 99,130,111 ( in no specific order)<\/p>\n<p>This morning upon waking 109.<br \/>\n1 hour after meal 130<\/p>\n<p>I was reading the pamphlet that came with my TrueResult strips and the numbers can be -\/+ 20% ( I knew this)AND, that it can be  as much as 70 mg\/dl higher after recently eating than lab tests! I did not know this!   I&#8217;m wondering if I should have a bg fasting test done at a lab?<\/p>\n<p>I also notice a huge difference in some readings that are taken 1 right after the other in a matter of seconds.  Which number should I use?  I also have 3 meters and while they all seem to be within range of each other, sometimes they give such different readings I have no idea which number to use.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot to mention, in case it matters, my blood pressure is perfect and my cholesterol is in normal range.  I am 50lbs overweight and never hungry.  Can&#8217;t seem to lose weight even with exercise.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Dr. the other day and asked that I be tested for low thyroid. I have a lot of those symptoms. I am sure I&#8217;m also pre-menopausal (recent), but the thyroid symptoms came years earlier. Dr. asked about diabetes test and I said, &quot;No, I check my bg (random)all the time at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}