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Drowsy After Taking Sugary Food, Earning To Have Sugary Food, Borderline Sugar Level. Diabetes?
What are the symptoms for prediabete?
My current situation: eearning to have sugarly food after a savourly meal, sometimes feeling drowsy after taking sugarly food, my sugar level in blood test is borderline, am 64 yrs old, 70 Kg, 5.6 inches in height, do exercise - walk for a hour at least once a week. Seldom drink sugarly drinks. Take some ice-cream, do not eat a lot of sweet things such as cakes, and chocolate. No family history of diabetes.
Thanks, Yun Lok
My current situation: eearning to have sugarly food after a savourly meal, sometimes feeling drowsy after taking sugarly food, my sugar level in blood test is borderline, am 64 yrs old, 70 Kg, 5.6 inches in height, do exercise - walk for a hour at least once a week. Seldom drink sugarly drinks. Take some ice-cream, do not eat a lot of sweet things such as cakes, and chocolate. No family history of diabetes.
Thanks, Yun Lok
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Sat, 5 Oct 2013
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Hello,
Although a pre diabetic can feel drowsy after a sugary food but even a non diabetic can also exhibit the same symptom due to reactive hypoglycemia.
Very frankly speaking pre diabetic stage generally has no symptoms and even if it does produce symptom,they mimic symptoms of diabetes like increased thirst,increased urination,tiredness,increased appetite etc.
Sometimes a pre diabetic has black discolouration patch on his neck,armpits eyc called as ACANTHIOSIS NIGRICANS.
You must get your FASTING and PP blood sugar levels tested.
Fasting level between 100 and 126 is called as pre diabetic or impaired fasting level and PP sugar level between 140 and 200 is called as impaired glucose tolerance( pre diabetic ).
Fasting level above 126 and PP level above 200 is suggestive of frank diabetes.
Lifestyle changes like dieting,exercising amped reduce piton of weight are the mode of treatment in pre diabetes and helps in preventing the person to go into frank diabetes.
Thanks
Although a pre diabetic can feel drowsy after a sugary food but even a non diabetic can also exhibit the same symptom due to reactive hypoglycemia.
Very frankly speaking pre diabetic stage generally has no symptoms and even if it does produce symptom,they mimic symptoms of diabetes like increased thirst,increased urination,tiredness,increased appetite etc.
Sometimes a pre diabetic has black discolouration patch on his neck,armpits eyc called as ACANTHIOSIS NIGRICANS.
You must get your FASTING and PP blood sugar levels tested.
Fasting level between 100 and 126 is called as pre diabetic or impaired fasting level and PP sugar level between 140 and 200 is called as impaired glucose tolerance( pre diabetic ).
Fasting level above 126 and PP level above 200 is suggestive of frank diabetes.
Lifestyle changes like dieting,exercising amped reduce piton of weight are the mode of treatment in pre diabetes and helps in preventing the person to go into frank diabetes.
Thanks
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Hello,
Prediabetes is mostly symptom free. Only blood sugar level will help in situation. Fasting blood sugar between 100 - 126 mg/dl and Postprandial between 140 - 199 mg/dl.
Prediabetes is mostly symptom free. Only blood sugar level will help in situation. Fasting blood sugar between 100 - 126 mg/dl and Postprandial between 140 - 199 mg/dl.
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