It’s not normal to have high blood sugar before eating anything for breakfast is it?

I just went to the chiropractor this morning and they took some kind of a blood sugar screen on me. They said I had too much sugar in my system. I am pregnant and I was going to get do the test for gestational diabetes next week but now I am pretty sure that I have it. Because that is what they do for the test, right? Don’t they have you fast for 3 hours or something? So my blood sugar shouldn’t have been high from the previous night, right?

Hi Joy,

Congratulations on your pregnancy! You didn’t say how far along you are, but of course being pregnant causes a lot of changes – hormonal as well as necessary weight gain. If you didn’t have diabetes before, you might have gestational diabetes. High blood sugar before breakfast is a fair indicator.

If you have gestational diabetes, it’s okay. You’ll just have to be more careful with what you eat and test your blood sugars until the baby is born. Your diabetes should go away after that.

I’d strongly advise you to keep your weight down when you’re not pregnant. Once you have gestational diabetes your risk goes up for developing type 2 later in life. Keep the weight down and reduce that risk.

There’s a free report on diabetes available at the website below.

Hoping all goes well with you and your baby!

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why does my friend have high blood sugar?

he does not have diabetes but has very high blood sugar.
what can help, how does he change this?

Your friend could be a diabetic or is a border-line diabetic. He must go to the doctor and be tested for diabetes. His pancreas, liver and kidney function should also be tested too.

The best thing to do is lay off the sugars; the doctor will let him know all about diabetes and how much at risk he is.

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What tests do they need to run to know if you’ve got high blood sugar?

is it just taking out blood? Someone told me theyd have to give me glucose to test how your body reacts to it. My question is when you go to the doctors, what tests do they need to do to know if uve got high blood sugar? thanks

The most common test is a fasting blood glucose test. That tells you how much glucose (sugar) is in your blood when you have not eaten. It diabetics that would typically be elevated. They also may to a haemoglobin A1C test. This is a test that gives an indication of if your blood glucose has been elevated in the past few months. If they suspect that you are a borderline diabetic, they may give you a glucose stress test. That is the test to which you are alluding. That is they give you a syrupy drink to consume and then see if that will raise your blood glucose above normal levels.

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