Prediabetes Blood Sugar Levels: What’s Normal, What’s Not, and When to Test Introduction You got your lab results back and saw the word “prediabetes.” Now you’re staring at numbers — fasting glucose, A1C, maybe a post-meal reading — with no real sense of what any of it means. Most sites will tell you “prediabetes means…
It’s one of the more confusing things about managing blood sugar: you go to bed without a late snack, you don’t eat anything overnight, and yet your morning reading is higher than it was before you fell asleep. If you’ve experienced this and wondered how blood sugar can rise without food anywhere in the picture,…
If you’ve ever gotten a high blood sugar reading after a stressful phone call, an argument, or a brutal day at work — and hadn’t eaten anything that should have caused it — you weren’t imagining things. Yes, stress genuinely can raise your blood sugar, and it happens faster than most people realize. The Timeline:…
I’m not a doctor but with having a family member in my household suffering from Type 2 Diabetes, I am well equipped with knowledge of the originating causes for high blood sugars. Of course it can be from things as simple as sugary snacks and desserts. Those are obviously the originating causes for a high…
My mother is almost 71 years old, and she has Type 2 Diabetes. She has been doing her shots for years now pricking her fingers. Recently, though, I got her started with weight lifting. It is something as simple as lifting 2.5 kg weights right from the comfort of her bedroom in my apartment. I…
Managing Type 2 diabetes is exhausting. You count carbs. You exercise. You avoid sugar. You take your medications. And still—your blood sugar swings are unpredictable. Some days it’s perfect. Other days it spikes without reason. You’ll eat the same meal two days in a row and get completely different results. It’s maddening. You know what…