So I have my doctors appointment tomorrow and have been keeping track of my sugar levels, wouldn't you know it they stabled out.

HMMPH, now when he sends me for a test, they wont see what I was seeing..

For weeks now I have been getting readings, 202, 292, 325, 41, 42, 312

So I say, okay maybe I have gone diabetic..

So I track the last couple of days..

146, 151, 159, 139,128, 3 hours after eating, and morning readings of 104 ,124, 139

Which are a wee bit high, but more prediabetic than diabetic..


Oh and one last question, I was diagnosed recently (last year) with low testosterone, and I am on gel that
i put on my shoulders. This has helped allot with my mood and such, if I do need to take insulin, will that mean
I will have to end treating the low testosterone.

It makes me wonder too, when I was scoring some high numbers I had run out of my script for the androgel, I wonder
if testosterone changes sugar levels some how. I can't see how since they are unrealated organs that sercrete them.




I don't want to cancel the appointment, it was kind of hard to get, but I don't to appear like a worry wart either..

HMMMMM

The odd part, that even at these low levels, my hands still tingle, my toe is still numb, I still fall over if I get up too fast, and my eyes are going to pot real fast.

You would think if your sugar calmed down, it would get better at least. I understand nerve damage may not heal.

Am I the only one with flaky sugar levels that don't follow reason, its almost like my body can produce some insulin, some times..

I have the appointment tomorrow and I really don't want to cancel, but then again I don't want to appear like a worry wart...

Dave,
Keep your appointment. If they do a fasting (or even a non-fasting) blood test and say you're "prediabetic", you might want to ask for a glucose tolerance test (GTT). Fact is, at the beginning, especially, you can have days when your pancreas is working better, or you're less insulin resistant (did you get more exercise than normal?) and the numbers will come down, but that doesn't mean you're not diabetic. And by exercise, I don't mean necessarily strenuous exercise...I'm so exercise-sensitive that just washing the floor with a sponge mop will bring me down about 40 points.

As for the androgel...I don't know the answers to those questions, but your doctor should know. Are you seeing an endocrinologist? If not, you might want to do so, especially since it appears you've got two endocrine system disorders.

As for flaky sugar levels...here's what my doctor said to me once, tongue firmly in cheek, after I'd had a day of inexplicably weird numbers: "Diabetes IS a weird disease, so I guess that makes pretty much anything that happens normal!"

Ruth