{"id":91273,"date":"2009-12-20T21:09:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T02:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/pre-diabetes\/46862-so-so-confused.html"},"modified":"2009-12-20T21:09:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T02:09:29","slug":"so-so-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/91273","title":{"rendered":"So&#8230; so&#8230; confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Greetings-<br \/>\nIn early November I noticed that my hair was thinning on top.  I could see my scalp.  I&#8217;ve always had really thick hair and FREAKED OUT.  When to primary care doctor who did some blood work and prescribed sprinolactone. all labs were thought to be in &quot;normal range.&quot;<br \/>\n Went to my dermatologist who did more more blood word.  Again, everything was &quot;normal.&quot;  <br \/>\nWent to Gyno who referred me to an Endo.  On Thursday, he diagnosed me (after more labs) with PCOS.  Pre-diabetic and insulin resistant.  He prescribed Metformin.  500mg and said work up to 4 a day.  To take a vitamin D supplement.  See his assistant in three months.  <\/p>\n<p>He never mentioned diet which in my subsequent research seems crucial. When I went to get the Met filled the pharmacist mentioned Low Glycemic diet.<\/p>\n<p>My A1C &#8211; 5.8<br \/>\nTestosterone-44<br \/>\nGlucose-88<br \/>\nInsulin-16<br \/>\nVitamin D-33<\/p>\n<p>I want to make sure *I* am doing everything I can to manage this situation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started eliminating carb&#8217;s.  Any other thoughts\/suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>I was really too stunned and ignorant to ask questions at the time but now I wonder:<\/p>\n<p>-Is insulin resistant related to hair loss<br \/>\n-Is being pre diabetic and insulin resistant the same thing?<br \/>\n-Do you have PCOS for ever?<br \/>\n-Where can I go to understand the lab report?  What are the most important markers?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings- In early November I noticed that my hair was thinning on top. I could see my scalp. I&#8217;ve always had really thick hair and FREAKED OUT. When to primary care doctor who did some blood work and prescribed sprinolactone. all labs were thought to be in &quot;normal range.&quot; Went to my dermatologist who did [&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-91273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91273","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=91273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}